Some 1,054km from Paris, where Iker Casillas will keep goal for Spain, Keylor Navas has been at Real Madrid's Valdebebas training facilities, diving left and right to stop the shots fired in by Villiam Vecchi and Juan Canales. The Costa Rican is using the international break and the time off he agreed with his national coach to continue training hard in an attempt to impress Carlo Ancelotti.

Keylor landed in Madrid on 5th August, almost two weeks after Casillas kicked off his pre-season in Los Angeles. That is why the former Levante man is taking full advantage of this time to train as hard as he can whilst staging his own mini-pre-season.

Had he been called up, Keylor would have been in the USA where Costa Rica are playing in the Copa Centroamericana, but then he would have missed his chance to shine in front of his manager in the Madrid derby. His national coach, Jorge Luis Pinto was kind enough to give him a pass and allow him to focus on Real Madrid.

Sources at Real Madrid say that Keylor Navas is the Cristiano Ronaldo of the goalkeeping world in terms of how hard he works in training. According to MARCA sources, the fact that Keylor is training in Madrid whilst Casillas is on international duty will not see a change of keeper on derby day. Ancelotti will base his decisions on what happens on a day to day and game by game basis.