Atlético Madrid win 2014 Spanish Super Cup
Baku, August 23 (AZERTAC). Atlético Madrid came into Friday evening’s 2nd leg Spanish Super Cup tie with an away goal advantage and were looking to secure yet another title in front of their fans in the Vicente Calderon, according to insidespanishfootball.com.
Atlético Madrid came out with their strongest squad, while Real Madrid were forced to make changes due to the continued knee injury to Cristiano Ronaldo and dropping Sami Khedira and Angel Di Maria from the squad list ahead of possible transfers.
Atletico Madrid struck immediately, with Mario Mandzukic taking a long pass from his own goalkeeper, Miguel Angel Moya and slid his first shot of the evening past Real Madrid goalkeeper, Iker Casillas 81 seconds into the match, marking the fastest goal scored in Spanish Super Cup history.
A short while later, in the 26th minute, Atletico Madrid manager was sent off for protesting to the fourth official for not allowing him to put Juanfran into the game, then touching the official.
Atletico Madrid continued to control the game, forcing Ancelotti to make a half-time switch, trading out defensive stability with Kroos and going all out in the attack by bringing on Cristiano Ronaldo.
The game was continuously aggressive with Atletico Madrid managing to stiffle Real Madrid’s attack.
In the 91st minute, Real Madrid’s fate was sealed as Luka Modric was shown his second yellow and sent off, leaving Los Blancos both a goal and man down.
In the end, Atletico Madrid prevailed, avenging last season’s loss to Barcelona by utilising Diego Simeone’s mentality and style, despite the Argentine not being on the bench for the majority of the match.
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