Real Madrid have started their season on a high with a 2-0 UEFA Super Cup triumph over Eintracht Frankfurt, who Bayern Munich beat 6-1 in the Bundesliga ...
Real Madrid have started their season on a high with a 2-0 UEFA Super Cup triumph over Eintracht Frankfurt, who Bayern Munich beat 6-1 in the Bundesliga opener a few days prior. The Super Cup win puts Madrid on four titles and could make it five when the FIFA Club World Cup begins in February 2023, not long after the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar in November and December. The Super Cup is normally the last piece of the puzzle for the hallowed “sextuple”, and for a team like Real Madrid this seems like a dream come true and will surely have their names etched into the history books and part of the upper echelon of football clubs.
Ancelottis troops ran out 2-0 winners over Eintracht Frankfurt courtesy of strikes from Alaba and Benzema.
"I've now won the UEFA Super Cup four times and this is a special one too. A David Alaba strike in the first half and a Karim Benzema effort after the interval handed Madrid the win. On 10 August 2022, Real Madrid were once again crowned UEFA Super Cup winners after claiming a 2-0 win over Eintracht de Frankfurt at Helsinki's Olympic Stadium, an arena the team were gracing for the first time in the club's history.
It was important for us to get our LaLiga campaign off to a winning start, insisted the Uruguayan following the Matchday 1 triumph over Almería.
The Uruguayan reflected on the win in the following terms: “It was important for us to get our LaLiga campaign off to a winning start. “It’s almost as if he came on just for that. The madridista midfielder reaches this milestone in this, his fifth season as a member of the first-team squad, with whom he has featured in 98 wins and netted six times.