"Royal" bypasses Valencia by three and reaches the Spanish Super Final
Real Madrid booked the first card in the Spanish Super Cup soccer tournament, which is held for the first time in the form of a mini-four championship, with an easy victory on Wednesday 3-1 at Valencia at King Abdullah Sports City Stadium, "The Radiant Jewel" in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Real Madrid will meet in the final Sunday, the winner between record holder Barcelona (13 titles) and Atletico Madrid competition champion in 1985 and 2014 Thursday on the same stadium.
Real Madrid, crowned the title 10 times, most recently in 2017, decided the match in its first run against Valencia, crowned as an orphan in 1999, with two goals bearing the signature of German Toni Kroos from a direct corner and a fatal error from goalkeeper (15) and Isco after a trouble in the region (39). In the second, among the best former player in the world, Croatian Luka Modric won a beautiful goal (65), before Danny Parejo scored an honorary goal from a penalty kick in time for a lost time.
This is the 15th game without a loss for Real Madrid in all competitions.
Real French coach Zinedine Zidane missed his Belgian attackers Edin Hazar, French Karim Benzema and Welsh Gareth Bale due to injury. Zidane made three changes to the winning squad against Getafe 3-0 in the league, and defending Sergio Ramos, the defeated center back, was absent from Benzema and Bale.
On the other hand, the star of the Valencia attack, Rodrigo Moreno, was absent due to the injury, and coach Albert Celadis pushed the youngster, Ferran Torres.
Real was the best party in the first half, and he started his chances with a header to head the French defense Rafael Varane from inside the area after a beautiful cross from the left side of his compatriot full-back Ferlan Mendi was blocked by goalkeeper Jaume Dominique (5).
Cross opened the scoring when he saw the goalkeeper ahead of his goal, so he played a deceptive corner that Dominic tried to keep away, but he entered with him into the goal (15).
The "bats" waited until the 29th minute to respond with a shot from inside the area for French Kevin Gamero on top model Belgian Thibaut Courtois.
But the Uruguayan midfielder Federico Valverde broke through from the right and crossed into the heart of the region to the Croatian playmaker Modric hit it and the defense blocked it, and I reached Isco with a strong plane in front of Valencia's lax defense (39).
Then the right post sympathized with Valencia following a header by EISCO after a corner that Serbian striker Luca Jovic failed to follow (42).
In the second half, Valencia tried to return to the atmosphere of the match, but Real ruled and launched with quick balls to seize the goal of reassurance.
The role came to Modric to kill Valencia's hopes, penetrating the area and striking the outside side of his right foot a difficult ball in the far right corner of Dominic after his tampering with the defense (65).
In the time of substitution for lost, the ball bounced from Ramos' hand, and the referee awarded a penalty after using the video technique, translated by the specialist Danny Parejo, a missile with an honorary goal (90 + 2).
Participating in the new system of the championship Barcelona, the league champion in the past two seasons who lost in the King's Cup final last season against Valencia 1-2, and Madrid, Atlético and Real, after finishing the 2018-2019 season in second and third places respectively in the league standings.
The Spanish Federation has reached an agreement according to which Saudi Arabia will host the competition for three years. Jeddah's hosting of the Spanish Super Cup comes after the capital, Riyadh, hosted the Italian Super Cup that crowned Lazio on December 22, at the expense of Juventus (3-1), whose Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo is participating.
