The Madrid "Real" team achieved a hard-fought victory in the UEFA Champions League tournament.
The "La Liga" representatives defeated Istanbul's "Galatasaray" team 1-0 on the road.
After the match, the visiting head coach Zinedine Zidane praised the club's goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.
"I am pleased with him, as is the whole team. He is our goalkeeper and played a good game today, and we celebrated an important victory.
We know that we need to improve - we created many chances to score, which we did not take advantage of.
We are a Madrid club and we must continue the work we have started. I congratulate the players, because today the people who watched the match could be proud of them," the Frenchman said.
After the victory in Istanbul, "Real" rose to second place in Group A of the Champions League.
