Real Madrid 2-0 Eintracht Frankfurt LIVE! Benzema goal - Uefa Super Cup match result and latest news
Real Madrid and Eintract Frankfurt tonight meet in Finland for the traditional curtain-raiser for the new European season. As ever, it’s the Champions League winners taking on their Europa League counterparts, with the German side in the one-off game for the first time in their history.
It’s a different story for Madrid, who are vying for their fifth success to match the record number of wins held by both Barcelona and AC Milan. Antonio Rudiger and Aurélien Tchouameni could get some minutes off the bench, with Carlo Ancelotti taking a full squad to Helsinki.
Eintracht last season won the Europa League club against the odds and tonight is the same story, and their task has been made harder with the news that influential left-back Filip Kostic is closing in on a move to Juventus so is no longer in contention to play. Follow the game live with Standard Sport below!
That's it! It's a fifth Super Cup for Los Blancos. Alaba and Benzema (who else?) with the goals.
90min: Three minutes added on.
86min: Here comes Tchouameni and Rudiger, replacing Kroos and Carvajal for the final minutes.
80min: Madrid looking pretty comfortable, as you can imagine. Frankfurt still huffing and puffing but not doing too much.
75min: Camavinga is on for Madrid, replacing Valverde who has had a quiet night.
70min: Change for Frankfurt as Alario replaces Toure.
That was such a Benzema goal, very reminiscent of one he scored against Chelsea last season. Just hitting it really hard first time to wrong-foot the keeper.
It worked then, it worked tonight.
65min: That should be that!
Benzema doubles the lead in Finland, hitting Vinicius Jr’s cut back into the area first time, with the shot too powerful for Trapp to handle.
61min: He doesn’t score many but Casemiro was inches away tonight! His shot from 22 yards cracks the top of the crossbar.
Good effort.
58min: First changes for Frankfurt as new signings Gotze and Kolo Muani replace Rode and Lindstrom.
Just over an hour gone.