Carlo Ancelotti decided to repeat in the European Super Cup, this Wednesday in Helsinki against Eintracht Frankfurt, the starting eleven he used in the Champions League final won on May 28 in Paris against Liverpool (1-0).
During the recent US pre-season tour, Ancelotti had already advanced that he saw the Super Cup as “a continuation” of last season and that he planned to pay tribute to the team from that match at the Stade de France, in which the white team won the ‘Fourteenth’ .
The German Antonio Rüdiger and the French Aurelien Tchouameni, new faces of Real Madrid, start the game among the substitutes.
On behalf of Eintracht Frankfurt, coach Oliver Glasner will have Colombian Rafael Santos Borré as his main offensive hope, the team’s hero in the Europa League final won over Glasgow Rangers.
However, another of the top men, Mario Götze, the man who gave the world title to Germany in the final against Argentina in Brazil-2014, is not in the starting eleven communicated by Eintracht.
Götze, who is 30, has recently returned to German football, where he hopes to give his career a new lease of life after two seasons at PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
The Serbian Filip Kostic did not enter the Eintracht call for this Super Cup, who according to the press would be closing his departure from the club for an upcoming incorporation to Juventus.
– Starting teams of the European Super Cup:
Real Madrid: Courtois – Carvajal, Militao, Alaba, Mendy – Casemiro, Kroos, Modric – Valverde, Benzema, Vinicius Jr.
Coach: Carlo Ancelotti (ITA)
Eintracht: Trapp – Touré, Tuta, N’Dicka – Knauff, Rode, Sow, Lenz – Kamada, Lindström – Borré.
Coach: Oliver Glasner (GER)
Referee: Michael Oliver (ENG)
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