With the arrival of Lionel Messi at PSG, we almost forget that the football planet continues to turn everywhere else.

And Wednesday in Belfast was the big day of the European Supercup.

Above all, the match allowed Chelsea and their coach Thomas Tuchel to confirm their current domination on the continent.

Shivering winner of Villarreal (1-1 ap, 6-5 tab), the club has indeed won a new trophy after the Champions League.

It was not, however, the unruffled Chelsea of ​​May in Porto, the one who had dominated (1-0) Manchester City in the final of the C1… But it was the cheeky Chelsea!

By bringing in his second goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga just before the penalty shootout, Tuchel pulled off a master stroke: the Spanish goalkeeper, demoted last season to the rank of Edouard Mendy's understudy, hijacked Aïssa Mandi's attempt and that of Captain Raul Albiol, annoyed.

Tuchel connects the titles

A sufficient gesture to offer a coronation to the Blues, their second European Supercup after 1998. The second title, above all, for Tuchel, in just over six months on the London bench.

The idyll is perfect, far from the difficulties known at the end of the lease of the German on the side of Paris Saint-Germain, last winter.

The Londoners' victory had been seen much earlier, in the 27th, with the goal of Moroccan striker Hakim Ziyech, well served by Kai Havertz from a low center from the left.

A great reward for this player not always titular, but always present during major meetings, with goals in 2021 against City in the FA Cup and in the Championship, and against Atlético Madrid in the Champions League.

This is a unit that is worth a lot, but which will not necessarily remain as a good memory for the Moroccan, because he suddenly had to leave his teammates, injured in the shoulder just before half-time (43rd).

Moreno still scorer

Thomas Tuchel, for his part, retains his defensive solidity almost always intact despite the absence of Thiago Silva, and the always certain contribution of N'Golo Kanté, captain of the evening. It was also when the Frenchman left that Chelsea finally folded, with a superb one-two concluded by Gerard Moreno (73rd), already scorer in the Europa League final against another English team, Manchester United. Previously, the team coached by Unai Emery had been unlucky, with an outgoing bar from Alberto Moreno (45th + 3) and a strike from Gerard Moreno (52nd) deflected by Edouard Mendy on his post.

A succession of frank occasions which offered a very beautiful spectacle to the 10,435 spectators of Windsor Park.

On the ground, Chelsea therefore succeeds the untouchable Bayern Munich, in passing winning the duel of the former PSG coaches between Emery, not extended at the end of his contract in France, and Tuchel, unceremoniously dismissed at the end of December 2020.

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