Real Madrid are through to the Supercopa de Espana final for the third consecutive yr after overcoming metropolis rivals Atletico in an eight-goal thriller that went the gap in extra-time.
Spanish soccer has briefly relocated to Saudi Arabia this week for the annual mini-tournament, with the Madrid derby the primary of the 2 semi-finals – Barcelona face Osasuna on Thursday.
The two sides had traded 4 aim in a pulsating opening half hour, with Mario Hermoso placing Atletico forward after solely six minutes on the clock. Los Blancos then turned it spherical with two objectives within the area of 9 minutes from defenders Antonio Rudiger and Ferland Mendy.
Antoine Griezmann introduced it again to 2-2 earlier than half-time, turning into Atletico’s all-time main goalscorer within the course of along with his 174th strike for the membership to surpass Luis Aragones on 173.
Atletico then thought that they had executed sufficient to attain the Supercopa final for the primary time since 2020 when Rudiger discovered the web once more, however this time on the flawed finish.
Dani Carvajal, who had earlier missed a wonderful likelihood to put Real into the lead, then popped up with the dramatic eighty fifth minute equaliser that pressured the tie into extra-time. It wasn’t fairly as dramatic because the 2014 Champions League final between the 2, however actually reminiscent.
Extra-time was a tense affair that wasn’t determined till close to the tip when the competition regarded to be heading for a penalty shootout. Instead, one other personal aim – this time from Atletico’s Stefan Savic – handed Real the lead.
With Diego Simeone’s workforce more and more determined and Jan Oblak heading up to put an additional physique within the field, a Real counter completed by Brahim Diaz into an empty deep into stoppage time of the extra interval lastly settled it in Real’s favour.
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