UEFA Tremendous Cup Ultimate Preview: Actual Madrid desires to start out the brand new season the similar means it ended the ultimate one — profitable a trophy.
Actual Madrid 🆚 Frankfurt
📅 Wednesday 10 August, 21:00 CET
🏟️ Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki
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Madrid received the Champions League in its ultimate fit ultimate season, and on Wednesday it starts the brand new season through taking over Europa League winner Eintracht Frankfurt within the UEFA Tremendous Cup in Helsinki, Finland.
It’s going to be the groups’ first aggressive assembly because the 1960 Ecu Cup ultimate, when Madrid received its 5th immediately Ecu identify 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 were given a hat trick. About 127,000 lovers watched the fit in what remains to be the best attendance for a Ecu Cup ultimate.
Madrid is chasing its 5th Tremendous Cup identify, and primary since 2017, whilst Frankfurt might be making its first Tremendous Cup look following its shootout victory over Rangers within the Europa League ultimate. That win ended the German membership’s 42-year watch for a Ecu trophy.
Madrid ended ultimate season on a top after very easily profitable the Spanish league and overcoming deficient performances to advance within the knockout phases of the Champions League. It sooner or later clinched a file 14th Ecu identify within the ultimate in opposition to Liverpool.
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“We will be able to attempt to win the entirety conceivable this season,” Madrid trainer Carlo Ancelotti mentioned Tuesday. “I don’t know if we will do it, we all know it’s going to be very sophisticated. However the squad is superb and I’ve numerous self belief on my avid gamers.”
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The Spanish powerhouse might be most commonly unchanged going into 2022-23, led through Karim Benzema following his best possible season ever. Vinícius Júnior and Rodrygo also are again in an assault that was once dominant ultimate season, and the midfield stays anchored through Casemiro, Luka Modric and Toni Kroos. The staff’s additions include central defender Antonio Rüdiger and midfielder Aurélien Tchouaméni.
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Isco Alarcón and Gareth Bale left after their contracts expired, however the membership didn’t substitute them in spite of the discontentment of failing to signal Kylian Mbappé from Paris Saint-Germain. As a substitute Madrid is hoping for every other spectacular season up entrance from the 34-year-old Benzema.
“At this time it’s not possible to exchange Benzema,” Ancelotti mentioned. “He’s the most efficient striker on the earth.”
The France striker was once the highest scorer within the Spanish league and the Champions League. He scored 44 targets in 45 fits with Madrid, and equaled Raúl González because the membership’s second-highest scorer with 323 targets, in the back of Cristiano Ronaldo (451). He’s the front-runner to win the player-of-the-year awards for ultimate season.
1 – Actual Madrid have best misplaced one in every of their ultimate 14 finals in all competitions, 4-2 in 2018 againstAtlético de Madrid within the UEFA Tremendous Cup within the version performed in Tallinn 🇪🇪. Invincible. percent.twitter.com/56gzXDf5IX
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“I’m no longer the only to speak about (the awards),” Benzema mentioned. “My objective is to lend a hand the staff up to I will each and every season.”
Benzema scored two times 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.
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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 house to Bayern Munich within the Bundesliga opener on Friday, when the guests led 5-0 at halftime.
“On Wednesday we’ve the chance to do higher in opposition to an opponent that’s simply as robust,” Frankfurt trainer Oliver Glasner mentioned. “Occasionally it’s excellent to get a slap within the face so no longer everybody thinks issues will proceed like ultimate season.”
Frankfurt had no longer clinched a Ecu identify till profitable the UEFA Cup in 1980. It received its lone German league identify in 1959, and because then it has received 5 German Cups, the ultimate in 2018.
Eintracht Frankfurt verify that Filip Kostić will no fly with the squad for the UEFA Supercup – as he’s set to sign up for Juventus on everlasting deal. 🚨⚪️⚫️ #Juventus
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— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 9, 2022
The fit on the Helsinki Olympic Stadium would be the first UEFA membership pageant ultimate to be held in Finland, even though the venue prior to now additionally staged the general of the ladies’s Ecu Championship in 2009.
📍 Helsinki, Finland
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Semi-automated offside generation might be used for the primary time in a Ecu membership pageant. The brand new machine operates with cameras that may observe 29 other frame issues in step with participant and can permit video assessment groups to resolve offside eventualities extra briefly and correctly, in line with UEFA.
The machine was once examined on the ladies’s Euro 2022 in England and within the Champions League ultimate season. It was once additionally licensed through FIFA for the Global Cup in Qatar.
