Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has said he won't be reluctant to take a punishment in the event that their Champions League last against Liverpool goes all the way on Saturday.
Courtois has a great record saving punishments this season, having halted three of his five confronted, including one from Lionel Messi against Paris Saint-Germain in the primary leg of the last 16.
It demonstrated a critical second as Madrid returned from 1-0 down in the second leg to win the tie 3-2.
The Belgian was additionally instrumental in Madrid's latest punishment shoot-out triumph in 2020, as he plunged to palm away Thomas Partey's shot in the last of the Spanish Super Cup against Atletico Madrid. Real Madrid won their last Champions League last that went to punishments, likewise against Atletico in 2016.
Courtois said he will get his work done on Liverpool's most probable takers while the 30-year-old said he is additionally prepared to move forward whenever required.
"I recollect in pre-season with Chelsea against PSG I scored one and in the Community Shield against Arsenal I missed one," said Courtois. "(Antonio) Conte put me there since he realized I could shoot well, yet clearly remaining on the spot, in a significant second, is unique.
"I wouldn't be one of the initial five (takers), without a doubt, yet perhaps later, on the off chance that you want to shoot, you need to shoot. I don't fear it. It's a second to sparkle.
"We won one (shoot-out) against Atletico Madrid in the Super Cup a couple of years prior when I saved one punishment. This season I have saved three.
"You concentrate ahead. Against Chelsea we had two punishments and you concentrate on them, since you can see the likenesses. Ideally it won't return to that yet assuming it does, I will be prepared."
Mohamed Salah has previously said he needs vengeance for their misfortune to Real Madrid in the 2018 last, when two blunders by Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius gifted Madrid the success.
Liverpool marked Alisson Becker half a month after the fact for a world-record 75 million euros and the Brazilian has been a disclosure from that point onward.
"He is an incredible goalkeeper," said Courtois. "The times I have played against him in England and with Real, he is perhaps the best goalkeeper on the planet.
"He has incredible quality and has saved Liverpool a ton of times. These days you really want a decent protection and goalkeeper and at the opposite end you really want strikers who score you objectives, that benefits you."
"On the off chance that you return 15 or 20 years it was really unique," Courtois added. "To be a goalkeeper now you must be a playmaker from the back, you need to emerge as a 'libero' to (meet) the ball in behind and run out and take it.
"They anticipate that you should be quiet ready and to make unequivocal passes yet clearly you don't have somebody behind you that can save you since you are the last man.
"You know that occasionally there can be an error and I trust it isn't coming for me. I would rather not wish that on any goalkeeper."
Real Madrid have shown their enchanted touch again in the Champions League this season, subsequent to arranging three continuous rebounds against PSG, Chelsea and afterward Manchester City to arrive at the last.
"You simply need to see the games we played at home against Paris, Chelsea and City. The second we adjust or score that objective, the response of the other group - you can witness that they know what can," Courtois said.
"You can see at 1-1 against City, the response of the players. That makes Madrid so extraordinary, for that reason it is so astonishing and individuals talk such a huge amount about the historical backdrop of Real Madrid."
Real Madrid will be going for a record-broadening fourteenth European Cup while Liverpool will pursue their seventh, to pull level with AC Milan as the second best club in the opposition's set of experiences.
Liverpool have previously won the League Cup and FA Cup in England this season.
"We don't need to go off the deep end since a game could go this way and that," said Courtois. "We must be clear about how we need to play and not play their game. We need to make them play our game, that's what is significant."
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