Real Madrid, already the most successful team in UEFA Champions League history, will now try to win a record sixth UEFA Super Cup when they face Atalanta in search of a second European trophy less than three months after the first.
Madrid won the European Cup for the 15th time in 2023/24 (more than twice as many wins as the next most successful club, AC Milan with seven) and now face an Atalanta team that triumphed in UEFA Europe League in May. , their first primary cutlery in more than 60 years.
The National Stadium in Warsaw is the twelfth venue to host the Super Cup since the team left its former home in Monaco, after Prague (2013), Cardiff (2014), Tbilisi (2015), Trondheim (2016), Skopje (2017). ), Tallinn (2018), Istanbul (2019), Budapest (2020), Belfast (2021), Helsinki (2022) and Piraeus (2023).
SUPER CUP PEDIGREE
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This is Real’s ninth participation in the Super Cup (5 wins, 3 losses); After losing their first two finals, they won the next four, were defeated by neighbors Atlético Madrid in 2018 before beating Eintracht Frankfurt in their last appearance, in 2022.
The complete breakdown of its effects is as follows:
1998: Chelsea-Real Madrid 1-0
2000: Real Madrid 1-2 Galatasaray (ap)
2002: Real Madrid 3-1 Feyenoord
2014: Real Madrid 2-0 Sevilla
2016: Real Madrid 3-2 Sevilla (ap)
2017: Real Madrid 2-1 Manchester United
2018: Real Madrid 2-4 Atlético de Madrid (ap)
2022: Real Madrid 2-0 Eintracht Frankfurt
Madrid have won five Super Cups, tied with Milan and Barcelona as the most successful teams in the competition’s history.
Los Blancos are now level with Barcelona with nine Super Cup appearances, more than any team.
It is the 32nd appearance of a Spanish team in this match, a record in the Super Cup.
In 2017, Madrid became the first team to win consecutive Super Cups since Milan in 1989 and 1990. Their 2018 loss to Atlético prevented them from becoming the first to win three in a row.
Dani Carvajal and Luka Modrić have contested a record 4 Super Cup wins, a record shared by their former Madrid teammates Karim Benzema and Toni Kroos, as well as Paolo Maldini and Dani Alves.
Carvajal and Modrić may also be the first players to appear in six editions of the Super Cup.
Carlo Ancelotti is lately tied with Pep Guardiola with 4 Super Cup wins, a record in the competition, having overseen Milan’s triumphs in 2003 and 2007 and Madrid’s successes in 2014 and 2022.
Ancelotti is one of the men to have lifted the trophy as a player and coach, along with Guardiola, Diego Simeone, Luis Enrique and Zinedine Zidane.
The Champions League champions have won the Super Cup in ten of the last 11 games, with the exception of Atlético de Madrid’s good fortune in 2018 against Real Madrid.
ATLANTA
This is Atalanta’s first appearance in the Super Cup; They are the 41st club to participate and the fourth consecutive debutant after Villarreal in 2021 and Eintracht Frankfurt (2022) – who lost – and Manchester City, winners in 2023.
Atalanta is the seventh Italian club to play in the Super Cup, after AC Milan (1973, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 2003, 2007), Juventus (1984, 1996), Sampdoria (1990), Parma (1993), Lazio. . (1999) and Inter Milan (2010).
The Bergamo team would be the fifth Italian team to win the Super Cup and the first since Milan’s recent high of five wins in 2007.
Atalanta are aiming to be the 26th club to win the trophy and the second new winner in a row after City last year; The English club is the first new call-up to appear on the trophy since Bayern Munich in 2013.
In total, 14 clubs have lost in their Super Cup appearance, with the last being Frankfurt against Madrid in Helsinki in 2022.
Italian teams have won nine of their thirteen Super Cup matches. They are currently the third most successful country in the history of the competition, Spain (16 wins) and England (10).
The UEFA Cup/Europa League champions have won 8 of the 24 finals since the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup was suspended in 1999. However, since Zenit in 2008, the only non-European champion club to have done so It is Atlético de Madrid, in 2010, 2012 and 2018.
PREVIOUS MEETINGS
UEFA Champions League 16 2020/21
Atalanta 0-1 Real Madrid
Real Madrid 3-1 Atalanta
The last clashes between the two teams took place four seasons ago, in the round of 16 of the Champions League, with Madrid triumphing 4-1 on aggregate against an Atalanta drawn, as today, by Gian Piero Gasperini.
Ferland Mendy scored the only goal with 4 minutes remaining at the Stadio di Bergamo on 24 February 2021, with the home team reduced to ten men in the 17th minute when Remo Freuler showed a red card for a foul on Mendy.
Zidane’s Madrid won 3-1 at the Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium on March 16, thanks to the passes of Benzema (34th) and Sergio Ramos (60th), the latter after Vinícius Júnior’s defeat against Rafael Tolói, expanding his overall advantage. Luis Muriel reduced With seven minutes remaining with a great free-kick, Madrid had the last word and substitute Marco Asensio completed the scoring in the 85th minute.
Madrid then reached the semi-finals, losing 3-1 to eventual champions Chelsea.
FORM GUIDE
Real Madrid
Opposite record to Italian clubs: forty-five wins, 11 draws, 26 losses, 136 wins, 98 wins
Madrid faced Italian opponents in the Champions League organization last season, winning 3-2 at Napoli on matchday two (Vinícius Júnior and Jude Bellingham scored) and 4-2 at home on matchday five with Rodrygo, Bellingham back and Nico Paz. . and Joselu scores the goals.
That’s ten consecutive wins for Serie A teams, home and away.
Madrid have won 16 of their last 17 games against Italian clubs, save for a 3-1 home defeat to Juventus, whom they beat 4-1 in the 2017 Champions League final in Cardiff, in the second leg of the 2017/18 quarter-finals. Madrid escaped after winning 3-0 in Turin.
The Spaniards have played five European Cup finals against Italian teams, winning four of them, the last two, against Juventus in 1998 (1-0) and 2017. Beaten 3-1 by Inter Milan in the decisive match in 1964, they had already beaten Fiorentina in 1957 (2-0) and AC Milan the following year (3-2).
Madrid won their fifteenth European Cup in 2023/24, thanks to last-minute goals from Carvajal and Vinícius Júnior (the latter was the first Brazilian to score in two European Cup finals), achieving a 2-0 victory over Borussia Dortmund at Wembley. June 1.
Ancelotti’s team finished better in their organization after winning all six Champions League games for a record third time, beating Union Berlin (1-0 home, 3-2 away), Napoli (3-2 away , 4-2 out). ) and Braga (2-1 away, 3-0 home) qualified for the round of 16 with two games remaining.
Leipzig then lost in the round of 16 (1-0 away, 1-1 away) before facing defending champions Manchester City (3-3am, 1-1 away, 4-3 penalty), with Rodrygo scoring in both matches, and Bayern. Munich (2-2 away, 2-1 a. m. ), substitute Joselu scored two goals in the final minutes to take Madrid to Wembley.
Madrid has lost a single match in the European Cup for the first time in its history (9 wins, four draws).
Ancelotti reached his sixth Champions League final as a coach (2003, 2005 and 2007 with AC Milan; 2014, 2022 and 2024 with Real Madrid), a record among any coach in the history of the European Cup. His five-game win total is also a record.
The Italian has also become the first coach to play two hundred Champions League games in the first leg of the quarterfinals against Manchester City.
Madrid will play in its 29th organizational phase of the Champions League in 2024/25, a record in the festival that it shares with Barcelona. They missed their last defeat in 1996/97 and have progressed to the playoffs in all 28 campaigns.
Los Blancos finished ten times ahead of Barcelona at the top of the 2023/24 La Liga title, winning their second championship in three years and 36th overall.
Madrid’s record in UEFA penalty shootouts is 3 wins and 2 losses:
5-6 v Red Star, 1974/75 European Cup Winners’ Cup quarter-finals
3-1 against Juventus, moment of the 1986/87 European Cup
1-3 Bayern Munich, 2011/12 Champions League semi-final
5-3 Atlético de Madrid, final of the 2015/16 Champions League
4-3 v Manchester City, 2023/24 Champions League quarter-finals
ATLANTA
Opposite record to Spanish clubs: 2 wins, 1 draw, 3 losses, thirteen wins, thirteen losses
This is only Atalanta’s seventh game against a Spanish club and first away from home in the Champions League.
In addition to the 2020/21 draw with Madrid, La Dea beat Valencia 8-4 on aggregate in the round of 16 of the 2019/20 season (with Josip Iličić scoring all four goals in a 4-1 away win), but enjoyed their top Champions League. The 2021/22 campaign ended with a 3-2 home defeat to Villarreal on matchday six. They drew 2-2 in Spain.
Atalanta won the club’s second major trophy, and a first top-flight trophy since the 1962/63 Coppa Italia, in 2023/24, beating German champions Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 in the final in Dublin with Ademola Lookman scoring the first pot in the final things in the UEFA Cup/Europa League.
Gasperini’s side had won their organisation ahead of Sporting CP, Sturm Graz and Raków Częstochowa, winning four of their six matches and remaining unbeaten, before beating Sporting in the round of 16 (1-1 away, 2-1). They disappointed Liverpool in the quarter-finals (3-0 e. , 0-1 h) and then beat the great Marseille (1-1 pm, 3-0 am) to conquer the final triumph.
This Atalanta will compete at the organizational level of the Champions League for the fourth time – since 2019 – in 2024/25.
Atalanta is the ninth Italian club to triumph in the emblematic UEFA Cup/Europa League festival and the first Italian team to win the festival at the time of the Europa League. The previous Italian champion was Parma in 1998/99.
Atalanta are the 62nd club to participate in a UEFA Cup/Europa League final.
Gasperini, the oldest coach to win the Europa League, is 66 years and 117 days old.
The Bergamo club finished 4th in Serie A last season, their 5th best 4th in 8 seasons. He finished with 69 points, 25 Inter champions.
Atalanta’s record in a UEFA penalty shootout is 0 wins and 1 loss:
3-4 Copenhagen, 2018/19 Europa League qualifying play-offs
LINKS AND DIRECTORIES
Ancelotti played for Milan between 1987 and 1992, winning two Serie A titles and two European Cups. He then controlled the Rossoneri between 2001 and 2009, winning two Champions Leagues and a Serie A.
The Italian played for Parma (1975-1979) and Roma (1979-87) and coached Reggiana (1995/96), Parma (1996-98), Juventus (1999-2001) and Napoli (2018-19).
Gasperini is coach of Juventus’ youth squad and Ancelotti is in charge of the senior team.
Ancelotti’s record against Atalanta as a player is 10 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses; He scored goals in Serie A against them for Roma and Milan.
As a coach, Ancelotti faced Atalanta 23 times while managing Parma, Juventus, Milan and Napoli with a record of 10 wins, 8 draws and five defeats.
Ancelotti and Gasperini have faced seven as coaches: the former recorded three wins, two from Gasperini and two draws.
THEY HAVE PLAYED IN SPAIN:
Mario Pašalić (Elche 2014/15)
El Bilal Touré (Almería 2022/23)
PLAYED IN ITALY:
Brahim Díaz (AC Milan 2020-23)
Antonio Rüdiger (Rome 2015-17)
WE PLAY TOGETHER:
Brahim Diaz and Charles De Ketelaere (AC Milan 2022/23)
Thibaut Courtois and Davide Zappacosta (Chelsea 2017/18)
Kylian Mbappé and Mitchel Bakker (Paris Saint-Germain 2019-21)
Kylian Mbappé and Mario Pašalić (Monaco 2015/16)
Dani Ceballos and Sead Kolasinac (Arsenal 2019-21)
INTERNATIONAL COLLEAGUES:
Luka Modrić and Mario Pašalić (Croatia)
Vinícius Júnior, Rodrygo, Éder Militão, Endrick
Thibaut Courtois and Charles De Ketelaere (Belgium)
Andriy Lunin and Viktor Kovalenko (Ukraine)
Jude Bellingham and Ben Godfrey (England U21, England)
Carvajal, who this summer has become one of 12 players, along with his former Madrid teammate Nacho, to win the European Cup and European Championship that same year, scored Spain’s decisive goal in a 3-0 win against Croatia on matchday one. of EURO 2024. Modrić for Croatia before being replaced by Pašalić.
Carvajal participated in Spain’s 1-0 victory over Gianluca Scamacca’s Italy on matchday two of EURO 2024.
Modrić’s goal gave Croatia a 1-0 lead against Italy on matchday three, but the Azzurri, with Scamacca coming on as a late substitute, equalized in stoppage time to go ahead of their opponents.
Berat Djimsiti’s Albania faced Carvajal’s Spain on matchday three of EURO 2024, with Djimsiti playing 90 minutes in Spain’s 1-0 victory.
Djimsiti Modrić’s Croatia drew 2-2 on the second day.
Vinicius Júnior, Rodrygo, Éder Militão, Endrick and Éderson, all members of the Brazilian squad at this summer’s Copa America.
Carvajal’s Spain beat Pašalić’s Croatia in the aftermath in the 2023 UEFA Nations League final, with Carvajal taking the decisive kick.
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