Before the whistle of the end of the Champions League between Real Madrid and Liverpool, which ended with the royal victory with a clean goal, experts, analysts and even the fans expected the Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois to win the “Royal” man of the match award, but the numbers indicate that he was the best in the tournament, and decisively contributed to Merengue won the 14th title in its history.
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The "Belgian Wall" became the first goalkeeper in the history of the competition to make 9 saves in a final match, and the third goalkeeper in the history of the competition to win the Man of the Final award after Oliver Kahn, Bayern Munich goalkeeper in 2001 and Dutchman Edwin van der Sar, Manchester United goalkeeper in 2008. 9.30 out of 10 for his performance in the final.
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Before the final, Courtois made 8 saves in the first leg of the final price against Paris Saint-Germain and the same number against Manchester City in the semi-final second leg.
Courtois has 59 saves in the version that ended on Saturday in the Champions League, the highest number ever recorded by a goalkeeper in the history of the competition since the statistics process began in the 2003-2004 season.
Compared to his Brazilian counterpart Alison Becker, the Liverpool goalkeeper, the two goalkeepers conceded the same number of goals (14), but the Brazilian made 14 saves, compared to 59 for the Belgian.
Courtois's 59 saves made him at the top of the list, 18 more than the second-placed.