UEFA Super Cup Final Preview: Real Madrid needs to start out the brand new season the identical method it ended the final one — successful a trophy.
Real Madrid 🆚 Frankfurt
📅 Wednesday 10 August, 21:00 CET
🏟️ Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki
#⃣ #SuperCup pic.twitter.com/iPCX2GCIMT
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Madrid received the Champions League in its ultimate match final season, and on Wednesday it begins the brand new season by taking up Europa League winner Eintracht Frankfurt within the UEFA Super Cup in Helsinki, Finland.
It would be the groups’ first aggressive assembly because the 1960 European Cup ultimate, when Madrid received its fifth straight European title on the time with an exhilarating 7-3 win at Glasgow’s Hampden Park. Ferenc Puskás scored 4 targets for Madrid and Alfredo Di Stéfano bought a hat trick. About 127,000 followers watched the match in what remains to be the best attendance for a European Cup ultimate.
Madrid is chasing its fifth Super Cup title, and first since 2017, whereas Frankfurt can be making its first Super Cup look following its shootout victory over Rangers within the Europa League ultimate. That win ended the German membership’s 42-year look forward to a European trophy.
Madrid ended final season on a excessive after comfortably successful the Spanish league and overcoming poor performances to advance within the knockout levels of the Champions League. It finally clinched a report 14th European title within the ultimate in opposition to Liverpool.
Real Madrid contact down in Helsinki 🛬🇫🇮#SuperCup pic.twitter.com/XWVdXKXUSm
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“We will try to win everything possible this season,” Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti mentioned Tuesday. “I don’t know if we will be able to do it, we know it will be very complicated. But the squad is very good and I have a lot of confidence on my players.”
📍 Helsinki, Finland#SuperCup | #UEL pic.twitter.com/sRNVqdxXpJ
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The Spanish powerhouse can be principally unchanged going into 2022-23, led by Karim Benzema following his greatest season ever. Vinícius Júnior and Rodrygo are additionally again in an assault that was dominant final season, and the midfield stays anchored by Casemiro, Luka Modric and Toni Kroos. The crew’s additions include central defender Antonio Rüdiger and midfielder Aurélien Tchouaméni.
QUIZ: How a lot have you learnt concerning the UEFA Super Cup? 🧐#SuperCup
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Isco Alarcón and Gareth Bale left after their contracts expired, however the membership didn’t change them regardless of the frustration of failing to signal Kylian Mbappé from Paris Saint-Germain. Instead Madrid is hoping for one more spectacular season up entrance from the 34-year-old Benzema.
“Right now it’s impossible to replace Benzema,” Ancelotti mentioned. “He is the best striker in the world.”
The France striker was the highest scorer within the Spanish league and the Champions League. He scored 44 targets in 45 matches with Madrid, and equaled Raúl González because the membership’s second-highest scorer with 323 targets, behind Cristiano Ronaldo (451). He is the front-runner to win the player-of-the-year awards for final season.
1 – Real Madrid have solely misplaced certainly one of their final 14 finals in all competitions, 4-2 in 2018 againstAtlético de Madrid within the UEFA Super Cup within the version performed in Tallinn 🇪🇪. Invincible. pic.twitter.com/56gzXDf5IX
— OptaJose (@OptaJose) August 9, 2022
“I’m not the one to talk about (the awards),” Benzema mentioned. “My goal is to help the team as much as I can each season.”
Benzema scored twice in his two preseason video games — a 2-2 draw with Mexican membership América and a 2-0 win over Juventus — and didn’t play in Madrid’s 1-0 loss to Barcelona.
Carvajal’s objective within the 2016 Uefa Supercup will eternally be goated pic.twitter.com/EFqOedfSyC
— MS 🇸🇪 (@madridistaswe1) August 8, 2022
Madrid will play its Spanish league opener on Sunday at promoted Almería.
Frankfurt’s season has already began. It routed second-division membership Magdeburg 4-0 within the first spherical of the German Cup, then misplaced 6-1 at residence to Bayern Munich within the Bundesliga opener on Friday, when the guests led 5-0 at halftime.
“On Wednesday we have the opportunity to do better against an opponent that’s just as strong,” Frankfurt coach Oliver Glasner mentioned. “Sometimes it’s good to get a slap in the face so not everyone thinks things will continue like last season.”
Frankfurt had not clinched a European title till successful the UEFA Cup in 1980. It received its lone German league title in 1959, and since then it has received 5 German Cups, the final in 2018.
Eintracht Frankfurt verify that Filip Kostić will no fly with the squad for the UEFA Supercup – as he’s set to hitch Juventus on everlasting deal. 🚨⚪️⚫️ #Juventus
Final particulars are set to be accomplished then Kostić can be in Turin to signal the contract. Here we go quickly. pic.twitter.com/aFjLdREigX
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 9, 2022
The match on the Helsinki Olympic Stadium would be the first UEFA membership competitors ultimate to be held in Finland, although the venue beforehand additionally staged the ultimate of the ladies’s European Championship in 2009.
📍 Helsinki, Finland
The setup earlier than Wednesday’s UEFA Super Cup ultimate 🏆 pic.twitter.com/gzNtRIYabu
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Semi-automated offside know-how can be used for the primary time in a European membership competitors. The new system operates with cameras that may observe 29 totally different physique factors per participant and can enable video overview groups to find out offside conditions extra shortly and precisely, based on UEFA.
The system was examined on the ladies’s Euro 2022 in England and within the Champions League final season. It was additionally authorized by FIFA for the World Cup in Qatar.
