{"id":27802,"date":"2026-07-10T06:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/27802\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T06:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:20:09","slug":"thats-how-you-try-to-stop-him-thibaut-courtois-offers-belgium-advice-on-lamine-yamal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/27802\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018That\u2019s how you try to stop him\u2019 \u2013 Thibaut Courtois offers Belgium advice on Lamine Yamal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Belgium<\/a> and Real Madrid<\/a> goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois<\/a> has offered his team-mates some advice ahead of their World Cup quarter-final tie against Spain and Lamine Yamal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The two teams will meet on Friday night and battle for a place in the last four of the tournament. Yamal will once again be tasked with providing attacking inspiration for Spain, and Courtois says his team will need to double up on the Barcelona<\/a> star.<\/p>\n

\u201cLamine is Lamine; we know he\u2019s very talented in one-on-one situations,\u201d he told reporters. He\u2019s very quick and very agile. He can dribble two players and then he also plays through balls.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think ultimately it\u2019s about marking him very closely, and when we can create a two-on-one situation, I think that\u2019s how you try to stop him, but he\u2019s a star, he\u2019s a great player and it really is difficult to stop him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yamal spoke before the tournament about how he\u2019s getting used<\/a> to being marked by two or three players at a time, saying that he eventually expects to move into a more central role as \u201cthe only place where three players can\u2019t mark you is in the middle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgium and Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has offered his team-mates some advice ahead of their World Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[15528,44,7,1854,15527,2323,116,15529,3721],"class_list":["post-27802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-arlington","tag-barcelona","tag-belgium","tag-lamine-yamal","tag-portugal-and-spain","tag-real-madrid","tag-spain","tag-texas","tag-thibaut-courtois"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116894238405532512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}