Real Madrid will play the European Super Cup tomorrow, Wednesday, at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium against Eintracht Frankfurt, the team that won the last Europa League on penalties against Rangers. Ancelotti's men start as clear favourites. The Germans come from suffering a spectacular defeat (1-6) on Friday in their debut in the Bundesliga against a Bayern that, without Lewandowski, already endorsed them 0-5 after twenty minutes.
But the European Super Cup is the tournament that has historically been worse for a very solvent Madrid in the finals. The whites have won 14 of the last 18 disputed. However, the balance is very different in said competition. Madrid has played it seven times, always in a single game, with a record of four wins and three losses.
If Madrid win against Eintracht, it will be placed as co-leader in the list of winners, equaling Barcelona and AC Milan, who each have five titles. Barcelona have disputed the trophy nine times, with five wins and four losses. The Italians have been more effective, losing just two from seven attempts.
Madrid lost the first and last of the European Super Cups played. The first dates back to 1998 and it was the first time that a single match was played, at the Luis II stadium in Monaco, where it was going to be played as a fixed venue for fifteen editions. That Madrid of the Ferraris that had just won the seventh orejona in Amsterdam against Juventus, coached by Hiddink, succumbed (1-0) against Chelsea with a goal from Gustavo Poyet in the 83rd minute.
The bad streak would continue in 2000 against Galatasaray. The Turks would win 2-1 with a golden goal from Brazilian Mario Jardel in minute 104. Jardel himself had scored in minute 41 and Raúl had equalized in minute 79.
The first white victory in the competition would not come until 2002, a clear victory (3-1) against Feyenoord.
Quite a few years passed before Madrid played the European Super Cup again because it took them a while to win the Champions League; from 2002 to 2014, but then he won four titles in five years. And he won the first three Super Cups. The first two against Sevilla, 2-0 in 2014 and 3-2 in 2016, this one after taking the game to extra time with a goal from Sergio Ramos in minute 93 and making Carvajal 3-2 in minute 119. 2017 he would beat Mourinho's United (2-1).
The last of the European Super Cups was a disappointment for the Whites, their third defeat, this time at the hands of Atlético in Tallinn (Estonia). The match ended 2-2 and the colchoneros sentenced with another two goals in extra time for the final 4-2. Julen Lopetegui's project began as it was going to end, fata
