The Real Madrid and the Atlético de Madrid They will compete next Wednesday for the European Super Cup, the eighth final to a single match between the two, from the first Spanish Cups won by the rojiblanco team in the 60s to the two Champions Leagues of the white club in 2014 and 2016.
Seven finals, four victories for Atlético and three for Madrid, including the last two, before their duel at the Tallinn Lillekula Stadium, the eighth direct confrontation to a single encounter and without margin of error that the two ‘eternal’ rivals of the capital of Spain will star, facing each other for the third time in the last four years for a continental title.
The most recent two were won by Real Madrid, both in the Champions League, both at the last minute; on penalties in the case of the closest in time, on May 28, 2016, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, when the white team won the ‘Eleventh’ European Cup in its history and postponed the first of the Athletic. In minute 15, Sergio Ramos He overtook Real Madrid; in 79, the Belgian Yannick Carrasco tied for Atlético. In between, Antoine Griezmann sent a penalty to the crossbar. Then came extra time, without movement on the scoreboard, and penalties: the white team was infallible, in the rojiblanco they failed Juanfran Torres placeholder image.
From there came the euphoria of Real Madrid and the tears, the grief, of Atlético, apart from the only title that it lacks, from its greatest desire in the final moments, as it had happened two years before in Lisbon, at the Benfica stadium. , when he touched the top, from which the extension and fatigue fell cruelly. That May 24, 2014, Real Madrid also beat him, clinging to the epic, revived with his head in the 93rd minute of Sergio Ramos that balanced the 0-1 with which Atlético commanded through Diego Godin and superior in overtime on the pitch and on the scoreboard, with three goals from Bale, Marcelo and Cristiano Ronaldo.
The other five single-game finals correspond to the Spanish Cup, four won by Atlético and one by Real Madrid, also with the curiosity that the rojiblanco team won all four at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium and the white block won theirs. in the Vicente Calderón, the respective houses of their rivals. Since 1960, in the first title match between the two, with an Atlético comeback in el Santiago Bernabéu (1-3), until May 17, 2013, in the same competition, on the same stage and with the same winner, thanks to a definitive goal from the Brazilian Joao miranda in extra time (1-2).
In between, also in the Copa del Rey, the rojiblanco team won in 1961 in Chamartín, 3-2, with a ‘double’ of Joaquin Peiro and a bit of Mendonça against a rival for whom they scored Paco Gento and Alfredo Di Stéfano, and in 1992 in that stadium, with Paulo Futre and Bernd schuster as 0-2 scorers in favor of Atlético. Real Madrid won the other Cup final between the two teams: in 1975 at the Vicente Calderón, in a duel that completed 120 minutes without goals and was decided on penalties 4-3.
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