real Madrid -Champions League winner- will face this Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. (TV: ESPN and Star+) to Eintracht Frankfurt -Europa League champion which was reinforced with Lucas Alario-, in the UEFA Super Cup final that will be disputed at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland.
Is will be the 47th edition of the UEFA Super Cup and will have as detail the debut of semi-automated offside technology (SAOT). the new system -based on specialized cameras capable of tracking 29 different body points per player- It will be coupled to VAR and will also be used by FIFA at the next World Cup in Qatar.
The definition of the first title of the European season will have the presence of Alarioformer striker for Colón de Santa Fe and River Plate, who arrived at Eintracht Frankfurt after five years at Bayer Leverkusen.
The Argentine striker debuted with a goal in the German Cup and a few days later he watched from the substitute bench the hard 6-1 win of the first date of the Bundesliga against the champion Bayern Munich, at home.
Real Madrid, top winner of the Champions League with 14 titles, will play its first official game of the seasonsince the Spanish League will start next weekend.
The squad led by the experienced Carlo Ancelotti had a moderate movement in the transfer market, since added German defender Antonio Rüdiger (free from Chelsea) Y His biggest investment was for French midfielder Aurélien Tchouaméni, for which he paid Monaco around 80 million euros.
With the goal scorer French Karim Benzema in their ranks, Merengue will seek its fifth Super Cup; the last two were conquered consecutively in 2016 and 2017.
On their side, the German team will play the final of this competition for the first time, after having lifted the Europa League trophy by beating Scotland’s Rangers on penalties in May this year.
The Eagles have as one of his figures Colombian striker Rafael Santos Borré, hero of the final against Rangers, already halfway through the year They also added the German Mario Götze, world champion in Brazil 2014 and author of the only one in the final against Argentinaat the Maracanã stadium.
This final has a historical precedent, since Real Madrid and Eintracht Frankfurt defined the old 1960 European Cup in Glasgow.
On that occasion, the Madrid team prevailed 7-3 with a hat-trick from the legendary Alfredo Di Stéfano.