Courtois saved Madrid from another win against Barça

The FC Barcelona defeated to the Real Madrid in The Vegas in his second friendly party of turns it American of pre-season (0-1). The golazo of Raphinha in the minute 27 sufficed to give him the triumph to the ones of Xavi Hernández, but the difference could be greater of not being by the interventions of Thibaut Courtois. Again, the Belgian was the figure of the 'merengues' and his providenciales paradones in the final stretch of the party avoided another goleada for the whites.

Although the formality of the party was quite balanced, the best occasions ran by account of the Barça. In total, the culés finished 19 times, 6 of them to the arch, while the ones of Carlo Ancelotti tried it in 9 opportunities without hitting a shot in the 90 minutes against to goal of Marc-André ter Stegen, viewer of luxury in the Allegiant Stadium of The Vegas beside other 65.000 fanatical that satisfied his grandstands.

In the first clear action of danger for the culés, Robert Lewandowski took advantage of a pass of Andreas Christensen to finish crusader of right, but the '1' answered with solvency sending the balloon to the corner. In the 20', Ansu had it after a defensive error of Camavinga, but the goalkeeper madridista went out fast to bale out and the '10' of the Barça finished very crossed, wasting the occasion. On the 27' came the so much of Raphinha, a shot of half distance with the power and necessary placing to do barren the pulled of Courtois.

Remarkable stops in the second time

On the end of the party, with the totally open Madrid looking for the tie, Ousmane Dembélé had two perfect opportunities to clear the crash. In the first, in the 87', Franck Kessié enabled to the of Vernon and the extreme defined strong by low, but Thibaut threw of reflections and avoided the so much with a manotazo to divert the balloon to the corner. On the 90' was Sergi Roberto the one who enabled to a Dembélé that opted this time for finishing crusader of left-handed, finding again a big answer of the of Bree.

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In the last of the commitment, Sergiño Dest encouraged to finish of left-handed in the middle distance and Courtois answered with another manotazo manually changed. Of not being by these interventions, the Classical in The Vegas easily had finished in goleada, as sucedió the last time that these teams saw the faces in LaLiga (0-4 in Santiago Bernabéu for the Barça). Everything seems to indicate that, except surprise, in the 2022-23 the ones of Carlo Ancelotti will follow depending in demasía of the good moment of the Belgian, the one who for the time being consolidates like the best goalkeeper of the world.

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