Thibaut Courtois (2011-2018, 154 nastupa)

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"Yes of course. We have the quality to replace Diego. He is important for us, but if he is not there for one game, we know that we can handle it. There is obviously a different way of playing because against [Robert] Huth and [Wes] Morgan there is no point in giving long balls to Eden, Willian and Pedro. But I think we did well and the early goal helped us to control the game and early moments."

"[Marcos Alonso] and Victor [Moses] had a lot of time in the box at the second post. It is good that they feel the moment to go and score goals. It is very good for us."

kolko god ne volio ovog lika izgleda da ima nešto u glavi oko fudbala

inače imajte u vidu i to da je su on i Pedrito jedini koji bez dlake na jeziku stavili Kontea ispred Murinja kad je u pitnjau trening, taktika....

“I ’m the best,” Thibaut Courtois says with a grin when asked to assess his rivals among the Premier League’s leading goalkeepers, although it soon becomes clear that he means it. “I always think I’m the best,” the Chelsea goalkeeper repeats immediately, with an air of seriousness suddenly replacing his smile.

This self-belief and studiousness have underpinned Courtois’s rise from being a gangly teenage left back at Genk to becoming one of the world’s best goalkeepers by his early twenties, enabling him to oust a club legend in Petr Cech following his delayed arrival at Chelsea without so much as blinking three years ago, as well as recovering from a sustained dip in form last season. The statistics for the current campaign support Courtois’s conviction — he has kept 13 clean sheets in the Premier League this season, five more than his closest rival, and eight more than he managed in the whole of last season as his own performances reflected Chelsea’s dramatic collapse from champions to a tenth-place finish. Cech finished top of the clean-sheet chart last season, with the two goalkeepers’ reversal in fortunes one of the main reasons Arsenal will arrive at Stamford Bridge this lunchtime nine points behind Chelsea.

For all his confidence, Courtois is quick to give credit to those who have helped him throughout his career, describing Cech as one of his best-ever team-mates for the selfless advice he provided while supporting him as Chelsea’s back-up goalkeeper two seasons ago, but it is Antonio Conte and the club’s goalkeeping coach, Gianluca Spinelli, who have done most to bring back his peak performances this season. Spinelli was brought in last summer to replace Christophe Lollichon — whose focus on weight-bearing and power-loading training methods was a source of irritation to Courtois — and the pair have gelled immediately. In addition to making certain technical changes, such as changing the way Chelsea’s goalkeepers dive and encouraging them to use their feet more often, Spinelli has formed a particularly close relationship with Courtois, to the extent that they often play volleyball together after training.

“I feel good this year and think I’m playing better than ever before at Chelsea, better than my first year,” Courtois says. “Training has changed and the manager has given all the players confidence so if you have both things it makes you feel good in the games, and gives you the extra percentage to make important saves.

“Training with Spinelli is completely different as he’s from the Italian school. He wants me to push more laterally straight away when I dive, rather than taking a step forward first. As a youngster I learned to put one foot forward before I dived, but he prefers goalkeepers to move laterally first. It has improved the speed of my diving and I’m getting down quicker.

“We’re also doing a lot more ball-work in training, always practising in situations which are game realistic. Spinelli likes us to really attack the ball with our feet, as well as coming for crosses, which is a very Italian trait, so you could say I’ve learned that from [Gianluigi] Buffon. I’m always trying to learn things from different goalkeepers.

Courtois believes passionately that all goalkeepers should work more on developing their ball skills by playing as outfield players in training, and thanks Guus Hiddink for giving him that opportunity towards the end of last season at Chelsea. To ease his boredom while undergoing rehab from knee surgery at the start of last season, the Belgium goalkeeper began working on his passing, and during his suspension after his sending off against Manchester City last April he asked Hiddink if he could play outfield during training, an experiment that went so well that it has continued under Conte. He is regularly used in midfield or as a striker in training-ground matches, which are more common under the Italian than his immediate predecessors Hiddink and José Mourinho.

“I’m playing as an outfield player too now, which is great,” Courtois says. “At Atletico Madrid my job was just to hit long balls forward, but here we play out from the back more so it’s important to practise my ball skills. I like to do it and it’s good for the team. We don’t have the biggest players at Chelsea so if I hit long balls I know that nine times out of ten we won’t win it. It’s better to play from the back.

“It started last year when I was injured. I couldn’t dive properly during my rehab so did a lot of work on my feet as well. And when I was suspended after the red card at Man City I joined in with the team and worked a lot on ball possession in midfield, which was really good. I’m often the spare man switching sides — the neutral guy — so have to be quick and alert. My skills have improved a lot. I play in midfield, left back, as a striker. I’ve scored a lot of goals in training, but not in a match yet!

“It’s important for goalkeepers to play outfield so they can improve their skills and get a better understanding of their team-mates, particularly defenders. I played as a left back until I was 11, and was lucky after that because at Genk we’d often rotate the goalkeepers, even with the first team. The goalkeeping may not always have been the best as we often had an outfield player in goal, but it was important. Sometimes goalkeepers stop playing outfield completely from the age of seven, which is crazy.”

Courtois admires Pep Guardiola’s bold attempt to bring the sweeper-keeper to England, but believes that Manchester City’s obsession with possession goes too far on occasions, and expresses sympathy for Claudio Bravo, their under-fire Chilean goalkeeper.

“It’s good to have a goalkeeper that’s good with his feet, but it’s more important that he’s good with his hands and makes saves,” Courtois says. “We play from the back as well, but when I see there’s pressure I will play a long ball to [Marcos] Alonso, [Victor] Moses or Diego [Costa]. City will always try to play, even when they’re under pressure, which is very risky. I feel sorry for Bravo, because he’s been a very good goalkeeper for Barcelona and Chile, but he’s under pressure a lot and is lacking confidence. You get to a point where you feel every shot will be a goal. Last season when I was conceding lots of goals it started eating me up.”

‘Arsenal are good, but their performances are a bit irregular. I think we have a stronger mentality’

Courtois attributes Chelsea’s extraordinary implosion under Mourinho last season to mental rather than technical or physical frailties, admitting that the players were guilty of complacency at the start of their title defence. He feared a repeat at the start of this season following back-to-back defeats by Liverpool and Arsenal in September, with the latter 3-0 humiliation leading to a players’ meeting at which several home truths were aired.

“People talk about our improvement this season, but you could also ask why we went from being champions by eight points to finishing tenth last season,” Courtois says. “It’s not just a case of last year we were so s**t, this year we’re so good. We were always a good team, but after winning the championship our mentality dropped. We maybe thought that everything was easy, but in the Premier League there are no easy games. We lacked intensity at the start and it was hard to pull out of it.

“This year we’ve had a new mentality, particularly with the new coach coming in. He’s brought the winning mentality and hunger to win again. He’s very hungry and we can feel that in training, he’s very close on us every single day. There’s no let-up. He’s on to us that we have to win, win, win. After we lost at Arsenal in September the players got together and said, ‘We cannot have a season like last year, we have to change something and work harder.’ Our mentality changed.

“Arsenal are good, but their performances are a bit irregular,” Courtois says of today’s game. “I think we have a stronger mentality. This game won’t decide the Premier League, but if we win and go 12 points ahead of Arsenal a lot of things have to happen for us not to be champions. Victory would send a signal to other teams that we won’t drop many more points.”

 

svaka cast dns ka pantera neka

Uz Hazarda jedan od najboljih danas, da ga Giroud nije zabio mogao je uzeti i MOTM, kakve odbrane je imao hljeb te jebo, malo je falilo da i ovo Giroudu izvadi

Ona odbrana Welbecku kada se ispruzio koliko je dug, strasno. 

Ona odbrana Welbecku kada se ispruzio koliko je dug, strasno. 

A vidi Cahilla na aparatima hahah

Igrac utakmice, samo da nije bilo Hazarda, ali eto jbg :D

A vidi Cahilla na aparatima hahah

Cahil je u zadnje vrijeme na visokom levelu. Sve me strah da nece sta pogrijesiti ali u zadnje vrijeme non stop igra na vrhunskom nivou.

Cahil je u zadnje vrijeme na visokom levelu. Sve me strah da nece sta pogrijesiti ali u zadnje vrijeme non stop igra na vrhunskom nivou.

Ne treba ureći haha, ma on kad je ekipa na dobroj razini većinom je i on

Kad je tek došao bio sam skeptičan jer nikako nije uhvatio onu formu iz Atletica. Ali stvarno u zadnje vrijeme igra vrhunski, a danas je mislim kruna sve te dobre igre. Dvije nevjerojatne obrane i dokaz da se radi o WC golmanu koji je po meni u TOP5 na svijetu.

Sve oko ovog momka, osim onih izjava je fantasticno. Nadam se da ce postati legenda naseg voljenog kluba  :x

A na koje izjave misli raja ja nikako da skontam ? 

A na koje izjave misli raja ja nikako da skontam ? 

tebi kelj popio mozag 

imaš tekstove iz Telegrafa tokom leta, jedina dva igrača koja su bila pod znakom pitanja su Kurtoa i Kosta, baš ono goruće pitanje, povuci, potegni dok Konte nije došo u London i seo sa njima da razgovara oči u oči (još jedan razlog zašto sam ja tolko ispizdeo zbog Koste)

a kolko se tom Tibu udovoljavalo majko moja, te menjaj trenera golmana, kurci, palci, morao je Konte da pravi kompromise samo da bude po njegovoj volji

pa mislim da je lik ubedljivo najnaporniji ikada :D počevši od one da nema nameru da dodje u Čelzi i greje klupu 

gotovo svaka pauza repke ispraćena njegovim kukanjem

a interesantno je to kako se smirio onogo trenutka kako je Čelzi krenuo da melje protivnike, onda je krenuo da se vadi, kako je pogrešno shvaćen i šta ti ja znam

jedini igrač pored Koste koga sam odavno prežalio

samo još jednu stvar da dodam, Azar je verovatno najveći medju tim Belgijskim curicama a nikada pazi nikada nijednuu jedinu rečenicu, pasos, apsolutno ništa negativno sa njegove strane nisam pročitao, ali baš ništa, belo, belina, blanko

izrod je "naš" Azar 

mislio sam da je u pitanju nešto skorije, nešto friško

Bole ga kurac

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Izvrnuh se od smijeha

Obrisao tweet, al sreća ima screenshot :D

Hvala na bodu, vrlo jednostavno..