Roncero: Real Madrid are never afraid of penalty shootouts and Courtois saved his team with a superb performance [jiayu]


2025-03-13



Thunder Sports March 13 news today, well-known Real Madrid fans, AS editor of the newspaper Roncero in a personal column evaluation of the Madrid Derby staged in the Champions League.
Roncerro used a very striking headline "Crazy! I love you!" "It was a crazy game," he said, to begin with. "By the end of the game I felt myself exhausted and even a little deranged."
"Atletico have always been able to push Real to the wall, but have never been able to knock us out in Europe and I can understand the frustration of the Atletico fans. It's a very cruel end for them."
"Any team that conceded a goal in the first 28 seconds in front of 67,000 Atletico fans would have collapsed and ended their Champions League campaign, but not Ancelotti's Real because they always find a way."
"Mbappe disappeared from the pitch as he always did in the first leg, but in the second half he won a penalty for Real Madrid with a super star ball and we were naive to think the game would end there, but it didn't."
"Despite a poor first half, they still found a way forward. Vinicius missed the penalty under pressure, but Courtois pulled them out of trouble with his superb play."
"Courtois was always there when opponents had the chance to kill the game, and he almost single-handedly took Real Madrid to penalties, and he deserves to be remembered in golden words."
"Real Madrid has never been afraid of penalty shootouts in our history and we have won many Champions League games on penalties."
"With Simeone, I can only say that this game was a punishment for him, I don't like the word revenge, but when he talks about how the referee helped Real Madrid, he lost the respect of the Real Madrid fans."
"I think Atletico are like this, they don't win the Champions League year after year, this season it will be the same next season. At the same time I have respect for Arsenal."