The goalkeeping enigma: Keylor Navas, Courtois and three competitions to share Champions League - Real Madrid Rotates both without clarifying decision

Goalkeepers are special people.In a sport called football, they play with their hands.In a game governed by goals, they are responsible for preventing them and keeping the scoreboard quiet, avoiding the joy.

In training, they're kept apart from the rest, allowing them to spend a lot of time together and competing for a position that, in normal conditions, belongs to one of them, while the others know that they are clearly a substitute in the eyes of their coach.

But at Real Madrid, there are two unusual conditions.

Keylor Navas and Thibaut Courtois are not goalkeepers who usually fight for their position.

In addition, their coach Julen Lopetegui is also 'one of them'.

Therefore, perhaps, Lopetegui is the quietest of them all when the subject of his goalkeepers raises its head.

When everyone wants to know his plans and whether he intends to rotate his two stars either in LaLiga Santander or the Champions League or if there is one of them who is the certain starter, he simply take a deep breath and responds without giving much away.

"Everything is much more natural than people think, we discuss things normally and honestly, there's no problem," he said.

So far, he has distributed his starts among them with four for the Costa Rican and two for the new arrival.

"We take the decision we need to make and always have a great option," said the coach.

His decision, which may be expected as final, is currently in transition.

That is, the week before each game, he chooses one of the two, for reasons which he believes are appropriate and gives the name of his chosen man in the team talk.

In addition to creating competition between them, it also creates confusion among fans.

What will he do in the important games? Does he have one goalkeeper for LaLiga Santander and another for the Champions League?

Will Keylor Navas play all of the European games or will Courtois take those?

So far, there are many questions and only one answer being offered.

"We have great options in that position."

Against Roma, Keylor made it clear that the two games he has spent on the bench served only to spur him on.

He made some good saves, the crowd chanted his name and it reignited a debate whose embers have never been completely extinguished.

When the games are 'low profile', it may not be as big an issue but when the games are important and both are desperate to play, it may not be so amusing to the man who is left on the bench looking on.

Even if he doesn't want to admit it, the coach has to make a decision.

With Sevilla and Atletico Madrid on the horizon, he can't delay it any longer.

Who is the Real Madrid goalkeeper?

Who will play in the Champions League?

The enigma still has no solution, for the moment.