Real Madrid vs Leganes: And with the 25... Courtois

Finally, a shift for Thibaut Courtois.

The Belgian goalie will debut with Real Madrid against Leganes after Julen Lopetegui decided on his No.25 only 48 hours after UEFA crowned Keylor Navas as the best goalkeeper of the last edition of the Champions League.

A 35 million euro signing, Courtois' employment has been the most difficult decision that the coach has had to make to date.

However, he looks prepared and has been training with the group for more than three weeks, attempting to recover the form that saw him awarded the best goalkeeper of the World Cup.

For his part, Keylor Navas gave up playing the next two friendlies with the Costa Rican team to focus on the fight for his club position, but it's a fight that, this Saturday, falls on the side of Courtois, his main rival for the shirt.

Moving on from the awards ceremony in Monaco, Real Madrid return to LaLiga Santander action against Leganes where they need to pick up three points and also get a few goals to assure themselves as leaders ahead of the international break.

For Madrid winning the league is one of the main targets for Julen Lopetegui who has to go about winning small battles in order to get the big prize.

In Monaco, Madrid claimed all the individual prizes, including the now departed Ronaldo, with Navas, Ramos and Modric all given awards. Modric was named overall player of the year and he is yet to start a game this season, basically having returned latest from the World Cup.

It remains to be seen if he now starts against Leganes and if he does then who makes way but it is clear that this is a team of more than eleven players and so it should not be a problem.

It will also be interesting to see if the crowd attendance improves with the holidays coming to an end as fewer than 50,000 saw the game at the Bernabeu against Getafe.

For Leganes they go into the game after a draw against Real Sociedad that felt like a win and they have confidence from beating Madrid in the Copa del Rey last season.

Pellegrino could play a 4-2-3-1 or a 4-4-2 with Michael Santos set to play behind the first striker but a more solid player that would give more control is Javi Eraso. Pichu Cuellar is sure to be in goal with Real Madrid's loanee Lunin unavailable to play due to his contract clause.