Real Madrid vs Eintracht Frankfurt LIVE: Super Cup result, final score and reaction after Karim Benzema goal
Follow the action as the Champions League winners take on the Europa League champions
Champions League winners Real Madrid outclassed Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 on Wednesday to clinch the Uefa Super Cup for a record-equalling fifth time. A first half goal from David Alaba and another from Karim Benzema in the 65th that lifted him to second in Real’s all-time scoring list with 324 goals, wrapped up the title for the Spaniards.
Europa League winners Eintracht had offered some resistance in the first half and had chances to score but were eventually overrun by the Spaniards. The win also means Real’s Carlo Ancelotti becomes the first coach to lift the trophy four times. The Italian had named the same starting 11 that began their winning Champions League final in Paris in May.
Eintracht keeper Kevin Trapp did well to palm a Vinicius Jr effort wide. The keeper, however, misjudged a cross in the 37th and was well out of position when Casemiro headed on for Alaba and the Austrian tapped in from close range for the lead. Real stayed in control after the break, forcing another good save from Trapp in the 55th, knocking away a deflected Vinicius Jr shot before Casemiro rattled the crossbar with a shot from the edge of the box two minutes later. The pressure eventually paid off when Vinicius Jr combined with Benzema -- the pair scored a combined 111 club goals last season -- and the French forward slotted in to kill off any lingering Eintracht hopes of a first ever Super Cup title.
The win brought Real level with AC Milan and Barcelona who have also five Super Cup wins. Follow all the reaction from the Super Cup right here:
Real Madrid vs Eintracht Frankfurt
This match is a repeat fixture of one of the most famous matches in the history of Uefa club competition as Real Madrid and Eintracht Frankfurt finally meet again after 62 years in the 2022 Uefa Super Cup at Helsinki’s Olympic Stadium.
The sides’ only previous meeting saw Real beat Frankfurt 7-3 in the 1960 European Cup final at Hampden Park in Glasgow to lift the trophy for the fifth time in its fifth season.
Madrid were the Champions League winners for a record eighth time in 2021/22 collecting their 14th European Cup overall and are bidding to win a record-equalling fifth Super Cup.
Frankfurt, who won the Europa League last season, are playing in the competition for the first time.
Glasner on playing in the Super Cup
Eintracht Frankfurt’s head coach, Oliver Glasner, says tonight’s match is a reward to his team for an incredible season last year and that his side will be ready to take on Real Madrid.
“This is the reward for our incredible season, to face a Real Madrid side that have incredible quality and last season knocked out some of the best teams in Europe.” he said, “What we proved in the Europa League last season is that there’s always a chance and it’s the same tomorrow.
“We’re going to play with confidence because we know what we’re capable of.”
Ancelotti on winning Champions League last year
Remarkably no-one was backing Real Madrid to win the Champions League last term despite their illustrious history in the competition.
All the way to the final their opponents were backed to beat Carlo Ancelotti’s team but somehow Los Blancos pulled off a brilliant campaign to add to their ever growing tally of Champions League win.
The Real Madrid coach said: “Was last season the most amazing of my career? Perhaps so, yes. I’d never coached a team to a league and Champions League double.
“It’s down to the spirit, attitude, quality, enthusiasm of my players that we qualified to be here by winning the Champions League.”
Real Madrid vs Eintracht Frankfurt
Welcome to The Independent’s coverage of the Uefa Super Cup as the champions of Europe’s two biggest club competitions - the Champions League and the Europa League - go head-to-head to decide who is Europe’s finest for the 2022/23 season.
Back in May, Real Madrid defeated Liverpool in the Champions League final and Eintracht Frankfurt got the better of Rangers in the Europa League.
Tonight they face off at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki in what is their first competitive meeting since the 1960 European Cup final, when Madrid beat Frankfurt 7-3 at Hampden Park in Glasgow to win the competition for a fifth time in a row.
Who will lift the Super Cup tonight?
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