Thibaut Courtois: We defended badly with a lack of intensity

Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois was not particularly happy after the team lost their first game of the season, shipping three at Leipzig in a 3-2 defeat on Tuesday.

"Sometimes we go out asleep, without aggressiveness or intensity, and against a team like Leipzig, you pay dearly. The coach had warned us that they score a lot of goals in their last five games at home and even so we went out there wrongly," he said.

"It cannot be that in two corner kicks they score two goals and we defended so badly in the second. We scored the goal before the break, but in the second half we failed many passes, controls and it was not a good game. The third, it kills you for the final minutes."

Courtois made many gestures in the goal towards his teammates, impotent, locked in his box. "As a goalkeeper from behind you notice that you haven't entered the game, they won each duel and it happened in both goals, we defended badly due to lack of intensity.

"We have to wake up, a bad day can happen because there are many games in a row in a short time, but intensity cannot be lacking even if we are tired. There are players on the bench and you have to give one hundred percent every second."