Hi everybody this week's column had to be of course about Wednesday night's game Real Madrid

against Pass and German. So much rests on it that globally will definitely come

back to that.

Win, lose a draw for Real Madrid,

this game is an issue.

This tie is a big issue for positive or negative.

For the moment, I wanted to focus on the goalkeeper. This is what I've written for E-S-P-N-F-C ahead of the game of PSG at Bernabeo.

Timocortois isn't simply the world's number one gokeeper.

In fact, his imperious form is such that he's easily amongst the top three or four footballers,

any position, any club.

Where the Balandor Award moved to this week instead of December, Courtois would be mighty close

to becoming the first keeper to win it since the legendary Lev Yashin in 1963.

And, hypothetically, were Courtois to be the key to Real Madrid somehow knocking Paris and German out of the Champions League on Wednesday night,

after Los Blanco's played excruciatingly badly in the one-nell first leg defeat, Gurtwa would be a shoe in to succeed

Yashin 58 years later.

Just picture the scene.

The big Belgian who gave up the sport he was sick of it aged 11 only to change his mind and

abandon a potential volleyball career is about to become the only Real Madrid keeper ever in all likelihood to face a Leonel messy,

Killeen, Mbapi, Neymar Trident at the Santiago Bernabel. Injury allowing, it's clear that Mbappi picked up a kick in training on Monday morning.

Hopefully he plays.

Courtois is about then to face a mercurial front line of all-time great strikers who have wrapped up

197 Champions League goals between them. It also means he's about to face

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