Real Madrid beat Frankfurt 2-0… UEFA Super Cup Winner
Enter 2022.08.11 (07:06)
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Last season’s UEFA Champions League (UCL) champion Real Madrid (Spain) defeated Europa League champion Eintracht Frankfurt (Germany) to win the Super Cup.
Real Madrid defeated Frankfurt 2-0 in the 2022 UEFA Super Cup match held at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland on the 11th (Korean time) thanks to goals from David Alaba and Karim Benzema.
The UEFA Super Cup is a competition between the champions of the UCL and Europa League in a one-off match to determine the owner of the trophy.
Real Madrid, who won the Spanish La Liga (La Liga) in the 2021-2022 season and lifted the trophy in the UCL, won the Super Cup for the first time in five years since 2017 and their fifth career.
The five Super Cup wins are the most tied with AC Milan (Italy) and Barcelona (Spain).
On the other hand, Frankfurt, who reached the top of the Europa League for the first time in 42 years since the 1979-1980 season during the UEFA Cup, had to be content with being runner-up in the Super Cup.
Real Madrid took the lead in the 37th minute from a corner kick when Alaba pushed a pass leading to the heads of Benzema and Casemiro in front of the goal and scored the winning goal.
Then, in the 20th minute of the second half, Vinicius Junior gave the ball from the left flank, and Benzema nailed it with a right-footed nonstop shot from the center of the penalty area.
[사진 출처 : AFP=연합뉴스]