Real Madrid and Manchester United in the UEFA Super Cup: how it was

08 August 2017, 11:09 | Football 
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Real Madrid five times participated in the fight for the trophy, challenged by two of the strongest teams of European club tournaments. After two failures, three triumphs followed, although, unlike the Cup / Champions League, where the "Blancos" were far ahead of all competitors in the number of victories, to Milan and Barcelona, ??having five wins, they are far away.

1998 Chelsea - Real 1: 0 Goal: Poyet, 82.

Actual: Illgner Panucci, Roberto Carlos, Hierro, Sanchis, Redondo, Seedorf, Savio, Karembeu (Morientes 58), Raul, Miyatovich (Yarni, 73).

In the first UEFA Super Cup, which consisted of one match in a neutral field, Real Madrid unexpectedly lost to many Chelsea. In those days, Londoners were not at all the same authoritative force in Europe, as in recent years. However, the wards Gianluca Vialli still managed to beat the favorite at the expense of a single ball, scored by Poite at the end of the meeting.

2000 Galatasaray - Real Madrid 2: 1, d.

Goals: Jardel, 41 (penalty shootout), 102 - Raul, 79.

Real: Casillas, Roberto Carlos, Ivan Elgera, Ivan Campo (Flavio Conceicao, 66), Figo, Savio, Guti (Munitis, 53), Njitap, Celades (Salgado, 100), Makelele, Raul.

The next attempt was even more inglorious. The victory of Galatasaray in the UEFA Cup final over Arsenal was already akin to thunder from the blue, and no one expected Mircea Lucescu's team to win in Monaco. If, with grief in half, Real still managed to escape from defeat in regular time and transfer the game into overtime, then once again they could not recoup, they could not.

2002 Real - Feyenoord 3: 1 Goals: Pauve, 15 (own goal), Roberto Carlos, 21, Guti, 60 - van Hoydonk, 56.

Real: Casillas, Salgado, Roberto Carlos, Hierro, Ivan Elger, Zidane (Solari, 86), Figo, Guti (Portillo, 71), Cambiasso (Pavon, 88), Makelele, Raul.

It was only at the third attempt that the previously unavailable trophy was submitted to Real. Rival Madrid again got far from the top - Feyenoord, so that the third puncture fans could not forgive them. It is worth noting that despite the presence on the field in the Real Madrid's two most expensive football players of the planet - Zidane and Figo, the main achievement in the victory belongs not to them, but little known at that time Kambiasso. The 22-year-old Argentinian took part in all three goals scored by his team.

2014 Real Madrid - Sevilla 2: 0 Goals: Cristiano Ronaldo, 30, 49.

Real: Casillas, Pepe, Ramos, Fabio Coentrao (Marcelo, 84), Carvajal, Kroos, X. Rodriguez (Isco, 72), Modric (Ilyar, 86), Cristiano Ronaldo, Bale, Benzema.

This time the opponent was worthy, but Real Madrid did not experience any problems. Recruits "Blancos" Kroos and Hames climbed out to prove the legitimacy of his invitation to the team, and Bale, apparently inspired by the fact that the fight took place in his native Cardiff. This trio of enchanting, and scored Cristiano Ronaldo.

2016 Real Madrid - Seville 3: 2, d.

Goals: Assensio, 21, Ramos, 90 + 3, Carvajal, 119 - F. Vaskes, 41, Konoplyanka, 72 (penalty shootout).

Real: Casillia, Carvajal, Ramos, Varan, Marcelo, Casimiro, Kovacic (X. Rodriguez, 73), Isco (Modric, 66), Asencio, L. Vazquez, Morata (Benzema, 62).

But in the next confrontation with Seville, Real Madrid in many ways lucky. Having led in the count, the Madrid team capitulated twice after the strikes of Franco Vazquez and our Yevgeny Konoplyanka (from the penalty spot). And only the magic head of Ramos (for the umpteenth time!) In the compensated time saved the "Blancos" from shame, and under the curtain of extra time, all hopes of the Andalusians were buried by Carvajal.

Unlike his future opponent, in the super-cup history of Manchester United everything is exactly the opposite: the mankunians have successfully started, but then followed by solid failures. However, the "Red Devils" participated in the duels for the Super Bowl less often than the Real Madrid, and although they have parity with the "Blancos" in the number of defeats, they won only one.

1991 Manchester United - Crvena Zvezda 1: 0 Goal: McClare, 67.

Manchester United: Schmajhel, Martin (Giggs, 71), Irvine, Bruce, Pallister, Blackmore, Webb, Kanchelskis, Ince, McClare, Hughes.

Who knows what would end the confrontation of MJ with Crvena Zvezda, if not for the tense political situation in Yugoslavia, because of which the two-round duel turned into one match in England. Perhaps the minimum victory at home Manchester United in Belgrade and would not have been enough, but there is no point in discussing this: The Super Bowl went to the "Red Devils".

1999 Lazio - Manchester United 1: 0 Goal: Salas, 35.

Manchester United: van der Gowe, G. Neville, Stam (Curtis, 57), F. Neville, Berg, Beckham (X. Cruyff, 58), Keane, Scholes, Cole (Greening, 78), Sheringham, Solskyar.

But after eight years, luck no longer began to smile Manchester United. The fate of the Super Bowl again decided the only goal, but flew it into the goal of van der Gowa, and Alex Ferguson failed to commemorate his knighthood, awarded by Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, another victory on the football field.

2008 Zenit - Manchester United 2: 1 Goals: Pogrebnyak, 44, Danny, 59 - Vidic, 73.

Manchester United: van der Sar, G. Neville (Brown, 76), Evra, Ferdinand, Vidic, Anderson (Pak Ji-sung, 60), Scholes, Fletcher (O'Shea, 60), Rooney, Nani, Tevez.

Источник: football.ua