The podium with Pep and his champions. (Photo: TW Manchester City)
Manchester City, from England, with the entry of world champion Julián Álvarez, became champion of the European Super Cup this Wednesday by beating Sevilla, from Spain, on penalties (5-4), after a 1-1 draw.
Moroccan Youssef En-Nesyri (PT 25m) opened the scoring and Englishman Cole Palmer (ST 18m) equalized at the Georgios Karaiskakis stadium, in the city of Piraeus, Greece.
Manchester City, champion for the first time in its history of the Champions League, and Sevilla, top winner of the Europa League with seven trophies, played for the first title of the 2023/2024 European season.
The definition had an Argentine presence with exRiver Plate in Manchester City, while other world champions such as Marcos Acuña, Lucas Ocampos and Erik Lamela played as starters for Sevilla.
Meanwhile, Gonzalo Montiel, author of the penalty that marked Argentina’s consecration in Qatar 2022, entered the final minutes of the second half and was one of those chosen to define from the “12 steps”. Federico Gattoni and Alejandro Gómez were substitutes.
Julián Álvarez, who entered the second stage after 39 minutes for Palmer, converted in the penalty shootout, where City was forceful. The Serbian Nemanja Gudelj crashed his shot off the crossbar and caused the defeat of Seville.
The “Spider”, at 23 years old, added his 14th. title and equaled the mark of Lionel Messi, who had reached that record at the same age.
Julián Álvarez, in the celebrations after the last penalty. (Photo: TW Manchester City)
In turn, Álvarez won a trophy for the eleventh time in his first participation: Copa Libertadores 2018, Recopa Sudamericana 2019, Copa Argentina 2019, Champions Trophy 2021 (River); Copa América 2021, Finalísima 2022, World Cup 2022 (Argentina); Premier League 2022/2023, FA Cup 2023, Champions League 2022/2023 and European Super Cup 2023 (M. City).
The Andalusian team lost the last six Super Cup finals and was only able to lift this trophy in 2006 when they thrashed Barcelona of Spain 3-0 in Monaco, the former sole venue for the final.
For the Spanish DT Guardiola it meant his 36th title (and his fourth Super Cup, two with Barcelona and one with Bayern Munich, from Germany) and established himself as the second most winning coach in history only behind Sir Alex Ferguson (49). , by beating the Romanian Mircea Lucescu, 78, and current coach of Dinamo Kiev.
2023-08-16 21:52:00
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