Fixture: Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid
Tournament: UEFA Super Cup Final
Date/Time: 23:00 GMT +4 15-th August
Arena: A. Le Coq Arena (Tallinn)
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The UEFA Super Cup will have an unusually local feel in 2018 as European champions Real Madrid take on city rivals Atlético Madrid in Tallinn in the first one-city meeting in the competition’s history.
• Real Madrid became the first club to claim three successive UEFA Champions League titles in 2017/18, and the first team to twice win the European Cup three years in a row. They are now attempting to add to that with another slice of history, by becoming the first side to win three successive UEFA Super Cups. A victory in the Estonian capital would also equal the competition record of five titles held jointly by AC Milan and Barcelona.
• Atlético, however, have never lost in this competition having won on both their previous appearances, in 2010 and 2012.
• Whoever wins in Tallinn, this will be a fifth successive UEFA Super Cup for Spain, who have won eight of the last nine matches. A Spanish side has not lost to non-Liga opponents since Sevilla’s defeat by Milan in 2007.
• This will be Spain’s 15th UEFA Super Cup triumph; Italy have nine with England on seven.
• This is the seventh UEFA Super Cup between two clubs from the same country, and the fifth all-Spanish affair; indeed, it is the fourth meeting between two Liga teams in five years.
Team News
Real Madrid
• Summer transfers
In: Vinícius Júnior (Flamengo), Andriy Lunin (Zorya Luhansk), Álvaro Odriozola (Real Sociedad), Thibaut Courtois (Chelsea)
Out: Omar Mascarell (Schalke), Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus), Achraf Hakimi (Dortmund, loan), Mateo Kovačić (Chelsea, loan)
• Six current Real Madrid players are in contention for the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League positional awards, the three-man shortlist for each position having been announced on 9 August. Keylor Navas (goalkeepers), Marcelo, Sergio Ramos, Raphaël Varane (all defenders), Toni Kroos and Luka Modrić (both midfielders) are all in contention, as is former Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo in the forwards category. Ramos, Modrić and Ronaldo all won their respective categories in 2017; this year’s winners will be named – along with the UEFA Men’s Player of the Year and UEFA Women’s Player of the Year – during the UEFA Champions League group stage draw in Monaco on Thursday 30 August.
Atlético Madrid
• Summer transfers
In: Nehuén Pérez (Argentinos Juniors), Rodri (Villarreal), Antonio Adán (Betis), Jonny Castro (Celta Vigo), Thomas Lemar (Monaco), Santiago Arias (PSV), Nikola Kalinić (Milan)
Out: Fernando Torres (released), Gabi (al-Sadd), Axel Werner (Huesca, loan), Emiliano Velázquez (Rayo Vallecano), Jonny Castro (Wolves, loan), Šime Vrsaljko (Internazionale Milano, loan), André Moreira (Aston Villa, loan), Luciano Vietto (Fulham, loan)
• Atlético pair Diego Godín and Antoine Griezmann are both on the three-man shortlist for the 2017/18 UEFA Europa League player of the season, the winner for which will be announced during the UEFA Europa League group stage draw in Monaco on 31 August. Jan Oblak (fourth) and Koke (equal sixth) were also in the top ten.
Lines up XI
Real Madrid: Thibaut Courtois , Carvajal , Ramos, Nacho, Marcelo, Casemiro, Kroos, Modrić, Bale, Benzema Isco
Atlético: Oblak, Juanfran,Godín, Savić,Gabi,Carrasco, Koke , Saúl, Griezmann,Costa,Vitolo
Please see the previous game results for mentioned teams below:
Last matches: REAL MADRID
11.08.18 CF Real Madrid AC Milan 3 : 1
08.08.18 ICC Real Madrid AS Roma 2 : 1
05.08.18 ICC Real Madrid Juventus 3 : 1
01.08.18 ICC Manchester United Real Madrid 2 : 1
26.05.18 CL Real Madrid Liverpool 3 : 1
Last matches: ATL. MADRID
11.08.18 ICC Atl. Madrid Inter 0 : 1
08.08.18 CF Cagliari Atl. Madrid 0 : 1
05.08.18 CF Stuttgart Atl. Madrid 1 : 1
30.07.18 ICC Paris SG Atl. Madrid 3 : 2
26.07.18 ICC Atl. Madrid Arsenal 2 : 1
(1 : 1)
Head-to-head matches: REAL MADRID – ATL. MADRID
08.04.18 LL Real Madrid Atl. Madrid 1 : 1
18.11.17 LL Atl. Madrid Real Madrid 0 : 0
10.05.17 CL Atl. Madrid Real Madrid 2 : 1
02.05.17 CL Real Madrid Atl. Madrid 3 : 0
08.04.17 LL Real Madrid Atl. Madrid 1 : 1
Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid – Prediction of LiveonScore:
1. Real Madrid win.
2. Over 2.5 goal
3.Griezmann Score any time
