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‘It’s a wake-up call’: Thibaut Courtois warns Real Madrid that they must improve before the opening of the Champions League and El Clásico with Barcelona after Zinedine Zidane’s men collapsed before the defeat at home to Cádiz
- Real Madrid suffer their first LaLiga defeat of the season against Cádiz
- Thibaut Courtois believes that defeat has shown them that they need to improve
- Zinedine Zidane’s men face Barcelona’s archrival in their next league match
Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois admitted that his team’s surprise defeat in LaLiga against Cádiz is a ‘wake-up call’ ahead of his first Champions League game and the first Clásico of the season in Barcelona.
The Spanish champion was the victim of a surprise after newly promoted Cádiz clinched a famous 1-0 win at the Bernabéu on Saturday.
Anthony Lozano’s first shot turned out to be the final winner after a frustrated Madrid caused an effort by Luka Jovic to be ruled offside while Karim Benzema was thwarted by the crossbar.
Thibaut Courtois cuts out a dejected figure after Real Madrid’s first defeat in the League season
Cádiz forward Anthony Lozano celebrates after putting his team 1-0 up at the Bernabéu
It was the first defeat of the season for Zinedine Zidane’s side and they are now turning their attention to Wednesday’s Champions League clash against Shakhtar Donestsk and Saturday’s clash at Camp Nou.
And Courtois warned that Madrid cannot afford to be so careless in those games.
“A loss is always a good thing because it gives you a wake-up call to go back to work, realize the things we are doing wrong and improve,” he said afterward.
We shouldn’t give it too much importance. It is a defeat, in particular you have to win your home games, but the games now are strong and fast and we will have to put in a good performance against Shakhtar, win the game and head to the Camp Nou with confidence. .
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He added: ‘We will have to analyze the match and take a look at it. Our performance in the first half was very poor, they called me to action three or four times, we weren’t winning our individual battles and they were better than us in practically every department.
“The coach made changes at half-time and we were better in the second half, but we couldn’t score because it’s a very organized team that defends very well. It’s really difficult when you fall behind teams like that.
‘We will have to talk about it tomorrow [Sunday] among us. In addition to yesterday’s session, the 20 of us have not trained together and with international matches it is difficult to bring everyone together to train, but that is no excuse. ”
