Thibaut Courtois

[Cholo 428]

Cech is history. Courtois is future. Case closed.

[blu35_army 551]

Thibaut is really didn't like more backpass. Why our back four not confidence to make a simple pass?

[iseah100 5,612]

Decent game. Needs to be tested more.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Very solid outing. He'll grow in confidence with a few more games, can see him single handily winning some games for us this season if he is given an extended run in.

[The Chels 2,502]

With Courtois in goal I feel much less nervous with opposition crosses and corners.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Great confindence boost for him, as he is chosen for PL debut. It means that the manager have a great trust in him.

[Steagles 70]

Courtois was solid today. He looked very reminiscent of Cech pre-injury and he is so massive he can out leap anyone. With all due respect to Petr Cech, I hope Thibaut is chosen from now on, but I hope Petr gets a chance to play first team elsewhere. He deserves that.

Side note, if Cech is sold, how soon do you guys think Thibaut takes the #1 shirt?

[manpe 10,861]

There were people here worried about his capability to deal with the "physicality". Well, I think the moment said it all, when he went to claim an air ball and in the process of doing that planted Cahill on his ass and didn't even give a shit.

[LukakutoStamford 779]

There were people here worried about his capability to deal with the "physicality". Well, I think the moment said it all, when he went to claim an air ball and in the process of doing that planted Cahill on his ass and didn't even give a shit.

I was trying tell people that Courtois is a physical GK.

[Myself 793]

There were people here worried about his capability to deal with the "physicality". Well, I think the moment said it all, when he went to claim an air ball and in the process of doing that planted Cahill on his ass and didn't even give a shit.

he just looked at him like 'you little bitch, get up'

[iceman 329]

nothing against Thibaut, but Burnley's attack is not the most dangerous in the league.

against them he played great (even with this statistic - 2 moments - 1 goal)

i want him vs Arsenal

[SykikJV 146]

Great debut. One world-class save, but how many times did he just come for the ball and claim it?

Looked solid, caught the ball fantastically but needs to improve his kicking especially to the right-flank.

That being his kicking the ball from the ground. His overall distribution was excellent. Costa failed to win most balls, but Drogba did.

[ParNolio7 285]

Side note, if Cech is sold, how soon do you guys think Thibaut takes the #1 shirt?

You cannot sell Cech before you extend Courtois' contract. You'd risk being left with none by the end of the season.

[BenIsLegend 475]

I wasn't at the game but a guy I follow on twitter was. Love his comment on Courtois:

@easstudios courtois turning round and running to our end celebrating the goals was spot on to be fair to the belgian weirdo.

[ParNolio7 285]

That being his kicking the ball from the ground. His overall distribution was excellent. Costa failed to win most balls, but Drogba did.

I think Courtois' major working point will be quick distribution in case of counterplay. At Atlético he's always been instructed to lie on the ground after a save and hold up play so everyone could get back into position. He shows the same tendency when playing for the Belgian NT. I'm curious to see if he can switch to fast breaks when necessary in the EPL. I hope he can because that hold up plays tends to get to my nerves sometimes

[Special Juan 27,429]

Reminds me of an Ostrich this lad, he is fucking massive by the way.

[Azpinator 2,325]

Reminds me of an Ostrich this lad, he is fucking massive by the way.

An ostrich would kill to have his arms.

[SykikJV 146]

I think Courtois' major working point will be quick distribution in case of counterplay. At Atlético he's always been instructed to lie on the ground after a save and hold up play so everyone could get back into position. He shows the same tendency when playing for the Belgian NT. I'm curious to see if he can switch to fast breaks when necessary in the EPL. I hope he can because that hold up plays tends to get to my nerves sometimes

He'll have to switch back to his training at Genk. At Genk keepers are instructed to quickly distribute the ball in certain situations. But at Atletico he was thought to go and lay down after catching/saving the ball.

Yesterday he tried it once after catching the ball from a Burnley corner-kick.