Chapter 1249: The King of Kings of Europe

The next night, the UEFA Super Cup was broadcast live to all of Europe and the world.

Last season's Champions League winners take on last season's UEFA Cup winners.

In a sense, this tournament can also be regarded as a battle of the best of European kings.

Find out if the Champions League winner is more powerful or the Europa League winner is more powerful.

It stands to reason that everyone would think that the Champions League winner would win, and there was no suspense about it.

But in fact this is not the case.

After all, soccer balls are round.

Let's not talk about it earlier, let's just say that the UEFA Super Cup has been fixed at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco since 1998, because it is a winner-or-lose game, and the previous UEFA Super Cups were all home and away rounds.

From 1998 to 2010, the UEFA Cup winners won eight times.

Four of those were consecutive wins.

From 1998 to 2001, these four European Super Cups were all won by the League Cup, or the European Cup Winners' Cup.

Chelsea, winners of the 1998 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, beat then-Champions League champions Real Madrid 1-0 in the UEFA Super Cup, with Uruguayan legend Poyet scoring the only goal for Chelsea.

The following year, treble-winning Manchester United lost to then-Cup Winners' Cup winners Lazio in the UEFA Super Cup, with Chilean striker Salas scoring the only goal of the game.

The following year, in 2000, the European Cup Winners' Cup was cancelled and the UEFA Super Cup became a contest between the Champions League winners and the UEFA Cup winners. That year, League Cup winners Galatasaray defeated eight-time Champions League champions Real Madrid 2-1, and the match was decided by the Golden Ball in extra time, and Galatasaarez was played by the famous Brazilian star Jadel, who scored twice in the game.

In 2001, the first European Super Cup of the new century, Liverpool, who won the five-time crown, faced the Champions League champion Bayern Munich. In the end, Liverpool defeated Bayern Munich 3-2.

Since the UEFA Super Cup was fixed in Monaco, the Champions League has not won a single time in the first four years, which is indeed quite unexpected.

This may also have something to do with the fact that the Champions League winners at the time did not attach much importance to the UEFA Super Cup.

It wasn't until 2002 that Real Madrid, the 'Galaxy Battleship' who won the Champions League for the ninth time, ended that embarrassing run in the UEFA Super Cup, beating UEFA Cup winners Feyenoord 3-1.

2003 Champions League winners AC Milan beat Jose Mourinho's UEFA Cup winners Porto 1-0 in the Super Cup.

The Champions League winners have won two in a row.

But then in 2004, Porto participated in the UEFA Super Cup as the Champions League champion, but lost to Valencia, the winner of the League Cup.

In the 2005 UEFA Super Cup, Champions League champion AC Milan defeated CSKA Moscow 3-1. At that time, Kaka, who was half the sky, scored twice in the European Super Cup, and Kaka also won the World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or that year. In fact, if it weren't for Kaka's excellent performance in the Champions League final, the team that would have played in the UEFA Super Cup would have been Liverpool, not AC Milan.

In 2006, Barcelona defeated Arsenal at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris to win the Champions League, known as the "Dream Team", but they lost 0:3 to League Cup winners Sevilla in the UEFA Super Cup.

A sad incident occurred before the 2007 UEFA Super Cup, when Sevilla the captain of the League Cup, Sevilla, suffered a heart attack during the game and died in the hospital, which also made the whole Sevilla team uninterested in the UEFA Super Cup, and they lost 3-1 to Bayern Munich in the Super Cup. This is also the first European Super Cup that Rong Guang has participated in, and he is not happy to beat Sevilla to win the European Super Cup, because the opponent has no intention of fighting at all, and it is pointless to beat such a team.

In 2008, Champions League champions Manchester United lost 2-1 to League Cup winners Zenit St. Petersburg in the Super Cup.

2009 was a crucial year, and this time, Barcelona won the UEFA Super Cup with a narrow 1-0 win over Shakhtar Donetsk in the UEFA Super Cup. They also won the Spanish Super Cup and the year-end Club World Cup. The result was a legend of "Six Crowns". It is precisely because of Barcelona's six-time title that the Champions League winners seem to be starting to pay attention to the UEFA Super Cup. Especially for the teams that finished last season with a treble.

However, the treble winner Inter Milan in 2010 lost 0:2 to Atletico Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup, and the then Inter Milan coach Leonardo was under great pressure and was scolded by Inter Milan fans all day long. Because he made Inter Milan lose the second team to become a six-time champion after Barcelona......

This is also the last UEFA Super Cup before this year, and from the perspective of these thirteen cups, the Champions League winners have won only five times, and if you analyze the historical head-to-head record, the Champions League winners are clearly at the bottom.

But that doesn't mean Porto will beat the Champions League champions this time.

Because there is no logical connection between each game and the last, let alone a year between the two games.

Besides, Manchester City has three unpredictable guys, Glory, Ibrahimovic and Kaka, Glory and Ibrahimovic have always been incomprehensible, and recently there is another Kaka. Since Kaka left for Manchester City, he has also become incomprehensible.

The three men competed on the pitch, and no one knew what they would do. So it is impossible to analyze and predict at all.

But one thing is certain.

That is, Manchester City, who have all three of them, want to lose to Porto, it is really difficult......

Not to mention the others, just an honor that makes Porto very difficult to deal with.

And if you really want to go back in history, history is also more beneficial to Manchester City.

Because of the 2004 UEFA Super Cup, Manchester City's manager Rafael Benitez has already played against Porto once. It was almost exactly the same as it is now, with a young manager leaving for Chelsea after leading Porto to the European Championship.

It's just that the team managed by Benitez changed from Valencia to Manchester City.

But Manchester City is much stronger today than Valencia was back then.

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In fact, in the evening's UEFA Super Cup, Glory opened the scoring for the team in the 29th minute and gave the team a one-goal lead.

Then, in the 39th minute, Ibrahimovic extended the score to 2-0.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again, and in the 68th minute, Kaka scored the third goal with a long-range shot, 3:0!

Kaka was substituted in the 70th minute, and the fans gave him a standing ovation.

From Real Madrid to Manchester City, Kaka's appearance and transformation are seen by everyone, and it is really hard to believe that this is the Kaka who can't run in Real Madrid......

Eurovision's commentators teased Real Madrid at this time.

"I really don't know what the expressions on Florentino and Mourinho's faces will have when they see such a kaka......"

"Kaka is a couple of people at Manchester City and at Real Madrid, and I'm most interested in whether Real Madrid regret letting him go."

"Real Madrid let Sneijder go before, and as a result, Sneijder did well at Manchester City, helping the team to eliminate Real Madrid in the Champions League group stage. I think from that point on, Florentino should have been very clear that he could never send his players to Manchester City. The result? Now, with Kaka, this law has worked again......"

Unfortunately, Florentino and Mourinho will not be present in this game, and after yesterday's Champions League draw, Mourinho returned to Madrid, and Florentino did not come at all.

So even if you want to cut to the stands and give Florentino and Mourinho a few close-ups, you can't do it.

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In the face of Manchester City's tsunami-like attack, Ferreira's Porto did not have much to do.

They were unable to stop City at all, and in the 88th minute, City scored again, this time by Gareth Barry, who came on as a substitute for Kaka.

Porto were unable to score a single goal until the end of the game.

They didn't even save face.

In the end, Manchester City beat Porto 4-0 cleanly in the UEFA Super Cup to claim their first UEFA Super Cup title in the club's history.

After winning the title, the Manchester City players were as happy as if they had won the Champions League again. They became the true kings of Europe.

"UEFA Super Cup winners - Manchester City!" The narrator shouted. "Manchester City have been in the limelight lately! They have just equalled AC Milan's record of 58 league games unbeaten in the league, and they have swept almost all of the best awards at the Champions League ceremony. Now in the UEFA Super Cup, Manchester City defeated Porto with a score of 4:0, although Porto replaced Boas, but the difference in strength between the two sides is not so big, right? ”

"Now it seems that I'm starting to trust a little bit of what Wing has promised to defend the Champions League...... If we continue to play in this state, Manchester City really has a good chance of successfully defending the title! Of course, I'm also worried, if the state comes out so early, will it be weak in the later stage? I think that's something Benitez needs to think about, but now, tonight, let all the Manchester City fans cheer and celebrate! ”