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Real Madrid v Atalanta: European Super Cup – live | European club football


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The teams

Real Madrid: Courtois, Carvajal, Eder Militao, Rudiger, Mendy, Valverde, Tchouameni, Rodrygo, Bellingham, Vinicius Junior, Mbappe.
Subs: Lunin, Camavinga, Modric, Guler, Endrick, Lucas, Vallejo, Ceballos, Garcia, Diaz, Gonzalez, Ramon.

Atalanta: Musso, Djimsiti, Hien, Kolasinac, Zappacosta, de Roon, Ederson Silva, Ruggeri, Pasalic, De Ketelaere, Lookman.
Subs: Carnesecchi, Rossi, Godfrey, Sulemana, Bakker, Cassa, Palestra, Retegui, Comi, Tornaghi, Manzoni, Vavassori.

Referee: Sandro Scharer (Switzerland).

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Preamble

It’s 74 days since Real Madrid won their 15th European Cup …

… and 84 since Atalanta lifted their first continental prize …

… and so here we are. The Spanish giants are competing in their ninth Super Cup, the upwardly mobile Italians their first. Real Madrid go into tonight’s showdown in Warsaw as hot favourites, on account of being Real Madrid. Atalanta are good enough to spring a surprise, though, as evidenced by the proper number they did on the otherwise invincible Bayer Leverkusen in the Europa League final. So this could be fun. Or a thundering non-event, this being a pre-season affair after all. Kick-off is at 8pm BST, 9pm in Poland, and we’ll go straight to penalty kicks if the scores are level at the end. European football is back, baby! It’s on!

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