UEFA Super Cup 2022: How Real Madrid successfully secured their first title of the season – tactical analysis

Real Madrid won the Supercup in a superior game against Eintracht Frankfurt. Real Madrid won the game between the winners of the Champions League and the Europa League in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium 2-0 (1-0) on Wednesday. The goals for Madrid were scored by David Alaba (37th minute) and Karim Benzema (65th). With their fifth Supercup title, Real catches up with the two record holders FC Barcelona and AC Milan. Real Madrid received 4.5 million euros for the win, and Eintracht 3.5 million euros for participating.

While for Eintracht Frankfurt it was the third match in the regular season (a 4:0 win vs. Magdeburg in the DFB-Pokal and a 1:6 loss against Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga), it was the first competitive match for Real Madrid. Therefore, we will take a look at Real Madrid’s tactics in this analysis. Also in this tactical analysis, we will discover how Frankfurt played without Filip Kostic.

Lineups

Both teams started with their heroes from last season. Carlo Ancelotti and Oliver Glasner lined up exactly the same teams as in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League Final 2022. There was only one exception: Eintracht played without Kostic, who is in negotiations with Juventus over a permanent transfer.

The formations also remained the same. Real Madrid played in the classic 4-3-3. The absence of Kostic did not change the well-rehearsed Frankfurt formation of a back-five.

Real Madrids solutions

At first, it seemed as if Eintracht was simply playing the next game of the past European Cup season here. Snappy, grippy against the big favourites from Madrid, with no-frills, and technically fine passes into the depths.

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