The white team kicks off the official season with the European Super Cup match against Eintracht Frankfurt
The competition returns for Real Madrid in the same way it did last season, with a European final. Winning the Champions League in Paris against Liverpool on May 28 opened the doors to the European Super Cup for the white team, a consummate specialist when it comes to securing a continental trophy. Over the past 25 years, the Chamartín team has presented an impeccable eight out of eight in the Champions League finals, losing only in one of seven Intercontinental Cup finals and its substitute tournament, the Club World Cup -in 2000 against Boca Juniors -.
The only mole in the history of the Whites in terms of titles at stake in the international context is precisely the Super Cup, having won four finals but lost three, against Chelsea in 1998, against Galatasaray in 2000 and against Atlético in 2018. The rival is now Frankfurt’s surprising Eintracht, executioner of Betis and also of Barça in the last Europa League. A team that retains the characteristics with which they won the second continental competition in Seville, always supported by a crowd that can take over the Camp Nou and who will again be in the majority in Helsinki.
Even the Finnish capital has moved Carlo Ancelotti to the 24 players of the white first team, as well as the third goalkeeper, Luis López. And it is that Madrid’s pre-season has been extremely calm, without injuries, with the calm that gave the success of the League-Champions League double and very little noise in terms of the market. A priori idyllic conditions to prepare for an early attack on the first title of the season, which they have between the eyebrows in Madrid according to the exhaustive physical preparation that Antonio Pintus has devised to be in top form at the start of the official competition come.
Surprises are not expected, Carletto does not like to make unnecessary changes when everything is working. The old guard continue to support this legendary Madrid midfield, with Casemiro, Kroos and Modric pointing to starters, with the undisputed Courtois under the sticks, Carvajal, Militao, Alaba and Mendy on the defensive and Valverde alongside Benzema and Vinicius as the attacking trident. The same eleven protagonists of the Champions League final, with the autographed Tchouaméni and Rüdiger waiting for a chance from the bench.
Face Eintracht, rival in that mythical 1960 European Cup final, played in Glasgow with a thunderous 7-3 white and became a cult duel for fans of historic football. Madrid’s golden generation in the 50s with Di Stéfano, Puskas, Gento, Kopa or Rial put the icing on the cake against the Frankfurt team and now against the same opponent, this group of current players plans to further cement their legend with a new title.
The German side are hit by the resounding victory over Bayern Munich (1-6) in their Bundesliga debut, but also by the imminent loss of what has been their star until now, Serbian left-handed Filip Kostic, whose transfer to Juventus will be completed from the offices, preventing it from being part of the rest of the German expedition so as not to endanger the operation. Nor is Martin Hinteregger, defending leader of the Europa League champions, who surprised locals and strangers alike with his premature retirement from professional football and now enjoys playing for an amateur club in Austria. They are the two most sensitive victims compared to the team that surprised the old continent last season, as opposed to their discreet entry into the Bundesliga, which they completed in the middle of the table.
Olivier Glasner’s team continues to bet on a three central defender, two lanes schedule, with the counterattack after recovering the ball being an important tool and a great physical display. Mario Götze, the goalscorer of the goal that gave Germany its fourth World Cup in 2014, is returning to German football after two seasons at PSV Eindhoven in which he played an important role. At the age of 30, the talented attacking midfielder wants to recover his best version and forget about physical problems for good. If he manages to make a version that resembles the player he was, he will be one of the major threats to this almost infallible Madrid in the final.
Source: La Verdad
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