real Madrid Spain beat the team 2-0 today Atalanta from Italy and was crowned champion of the European Super Cup 2024, after a match played in the Polish city of Warsaw.
At the National Stadium in Warsaw, Uruguayan Federico Valverde opened the scoring 15 minutes into the second half and the Frenchman Kylian Mbappé He scored the second ten minutes later.
With this result, the team of Italian Carlo Ancelotti was crowned champion of the European Super Cup for the sixth time and is the international title number 31 in its history.
For the first round of La Liga in Spain, Argentina will visit Mallorca on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. at the Son Moix stadium.
For their part, Gian Piero Gasperini’s men were on the verge of their second international title. The Bergamo team will make their Serie A debut against Lecce on Monday at 13:30 in Argentina at the Stadio Via del Mare.
In the first quarter of the game, both Spain and Italy were unable to break the tie and displayed a frictional game without much work for goalkeepers Thibaut Courtois and Juan Musso.
The Madrid team ended up betting on counterattacking with the Brazilians Rodrygo Goes and Vinicius Junior while Atalanta pulled the strings of the match with the Englishman Ademola Lookman as the attacking card.
In the second half, the Italian team continued to control the match and were the more penetrating of the two against a Real Madrid team that had trouble getting to grips with the ball.
Despite this difficulty in taking the ball, the hierarchy of the Spanish team weighed more and, after 15 minutes, the Uruguayan Federico Valverde scored the 1-0. After a bad exit by the Argentine goalkeeper Musso, the ball fell to Vinicius on the left of the area where he cut inside against his marker and passed it to the middle for the Uruguayan midfielder who only had to push it in.
From that moment on, the ‘Merengue’ took down Atalanta, who only survived thanks to the Argentine goalkeeper Musso.
In the 23rd minute, Real Madrid extended their lead with a goal from their debuting star, Kylian Mbappé. After an error by the Atalanta defence at the start, Rodrygo Goes recovered the ball on the right and passed it to the far post for the Englishman Jude Bellingham, who passed it back to the penalty spot where the French striker scored and made it 2-0.
Summary of Real Madrid vs Atalanta for the European Super Cup
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