Real Madrid succeeds Athletic as champion of the Super Cup

Real Madrid extended the superiority with which it governs the League to the Spanish Super Cup. In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the team of Ancelotti he won the first title of the season with sufficiency, beating an Athletic team that never gave up but lacked evil in attack. Without making a party virguería, Modric Y Benzema, with the complicity of the VAR, wrote their names on the trophy. For the second consecutive edition, the whites wave their success.

The Real Madrid changed in the final aspect. If against Barça he disguised himself as a team designed for counterattack, with Athletic ahead he opted for a more playful profile, more creative. He took the initiative and left the rojiblancos who, this time, were the ones who ran against. The favoritism of the final soon leaned on the Ancelotti side, who imposed greater danger creating a couple of warning chances, with a shot from Benzema and a high header from Military with Unai leaving decompensated. Those of Marcelino replied with long transitions that Ancelotti, standing on the bench, gave him chills Ancelotti.

It’s not easy to play Real Madrid, anyway. When his authority is questioned, the rival has a tendency to get shorn. And Athletic replied to him in several phases of the first half, moving skilfully in the open spaces, attacking in an orderly manner and regrouping in time. Feeling superior, the whites were not going to consent to it and in a play down the right wing, with Rodrygo open ended, Modric he hit his assist with technique and spin. Unappealable goal, the first of the season, but how much. With ground ahead, Real Madrid is indefensible. Marker in favor and the government of the party.

But Athletic It is not one of the teams that collapses on the field at first. It is about chewing the game until you find your perfect moment. Still convalescing from the unexpected skid, Sancet He was able to correct the slip, when a poisonous thread was invented inside the area that miraculously did not enter. The move was a declaration of intent. They would not give up just like that in the second half.

The Athletic he proposed in the resumption to be a protester, pressing with the advanced lines although without extreme conviction. And when he was at work, the annoyance arrived. The ball in a shot by Benzema hit the hand of Yeray when he tried to interfere. The school did not see it and someone from the VAR called their attention. Reviewed, big grove He rectified and ordered the maximum penalty that the French striker himself was responsible for materializing. As always, it is infallible.

Seeing the disadvantage, the technician of the Athletic he made a triple switch to try to straighten out the final. About Vesga, Raul Garcia and Yuri fell on the responsibility of shaking. Something had to be done. Athletic’s appearance changed. With everything lost, he threw the rest. The first to try was Raul Garcia with a double shot, the second with a header that went wide. The minutes progressed irremediably and although the referee complied by signaling a penalty in favor of Athletic and expelling Military, luck was allied with Courteous, who guessed the launch of Raul Garcia. The rojiblancos have a problem with maximum penalties. They have thrown four and missed three. And so it is impossible to win a Super Cup final.

TECHNICAL SHEET

Athletic

Unai Simón; De Marcos, Iñigo Martínez, Yeray, Balenziaga (Raúl García, 58 ‘); Muniain (nico Serrano, 81 ‘), Zarraga (Yuri, 58’), Dani García, Berenguer; Sancet (Vesga, 58 ‘) and Iñaki Williams.

Real Madrid

Courtois; Lucas (Nacho, 91′), Militao, Alaba, Mendy; Casemiro, Kroos, Modric; Rodrygo (Valverde, 64′), Vinicius (Marcelo, 85′) and Benzema.

Goals: 0-1: Modric (38′); 0-2: Benzema (52)’

Referee: Soto Grande: Showed yellow to Marcelino (53′) and Vinicius (77′). Sent off Militao (87′)