The heavenly routine of Real Madrid: he pockets his fifth European Super Cup

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Real Madrid lives a heavenly routine to which no rival finds a remedy.

The current champion of the Champions League continued his path in Helsinki with his fifth European Super Cup against Eintracht (2-0) who experienced torments similar to those of other victims.

Courtois to deny,

to fly and Benzema to create and finish off.

did not want to see

this European Super Cup as a start -after all, it was the first title of the new season-, but as a continuation.

Or, rather, as a tribute to those who allowed him to get here.

So he had no doubts in training at the beginning with the same eleven players who were starters in the conquest of the fourteenth Champions League in Saint-Denis.

Thus, the two new reinforcements,

and

, as well as

, whose coach intends to offer one last life as a supposed substitute for Benzema, remained on the bench.

Ancelotti finds it difficult to take reasons away from him, especially when seeing how his Real Madrid continues to have an invariable behavior in the face of difficulties.

What difference does it make if Eintracht went up to his beard for a while in the first leg of the match before Kamada's hypnotic dribbling between the lines

that Courtois would appear to close the door and allow the arrival of better times.

The Belgian goalkeeper, who had just made nine saves in the Champions League final, showed up in Helsinki to prevent Kamada from scoring the first goal.

The Japanese footballer, with a life ahead of him to think about where he could place the ball, was overwhelmed by that fear of nothingness caused by the imposing image of the Real Madrid goalkeeper.

That action, the best that the Germans plotted in a first act in which they were backing down hopelessly, also served to corroborate how strange

's football is .

He came from the side to kick out a ball played between two rivals.

The French winger liked it so much that a while later he tried something similar again.

The boots failed him this time.

So baffled was he at losing the ball that he opted to stand still and wait for Courtois to fix it.

Trapp's miraculous slap

But this Madrid would be incomprehensible without living on the edge.

Even if it's just for a moment.

The Finns are accompanied by a mystical expression that is impossible to translate.

"Sisu" they call him.

They say that it is born in the bowels.

And that they come to her to find strength and bravery where the rest of her only sees problems and hopelessness.

There was no more to see how Valverde started and tried to find the spaces that seemed not to exist.

Or how Benzema and Vinicius intended to engender and run between that defense of five footballers to which Eintracht was condemned in the absence of

, a structural left-handed winger who agreed to sign with Juventus just one day before the final.

Benzema celebrates his goal against Eintracht.JAVIER SORIANAFP

Between

and Benzema they coordinated so that Vinicius was the one to shoot.

Central defender Tuta had to rush against the goal line to avoid the goal.

Madrid's second warning was much more serious.

The Brazilian winger, this time, was the one who found the appropriate support in Benzema to turn, fly and force goalkeeper

to the miraculous slap.

There was no consolation for Eintracht with the subsequent corner.

Benzema, who the day before explained how he had managed to do everything since Cristiano left, was held in the air between two rivals to head.

The ball would have gone out if Casemiro hadn't looked for it, precise in his backward pass so that Alaba, who loves to go for the shot in strategy, crowned in front of the small area.

So satisfied was Real Madrid with that release that the Whites' captain was a foot away from scoring the second after an advance by Kroos.

Casemiro, MVP

tried to change the record by

resorting to a World Champion:

.

He scored the most important goal of his life at the age of 22.

Not in any place.

He did it in Maracana, where the glory and the tremendous engulf.

And not at any moment, in the World Cup final, where there is no way to escape from history.

Götze would have preferred to experience all that at the age of 35, and not when he was a kid who was asked to make that control with his chest and that volley an impossible routine to fulfill.

Nothing could change this Götze because Madrid really liked it.

After

, who would go on to be named MVP, tested the stability of the crossbar with a hammer blow, another run by Vinicius, this time enabled by Mendy, allowed Benzema to end the night.

The French striker did not even need to control.

He simply stuck out his leg and left Trapp on Babia, unable to react.

Nothing can be reproached.

This Real Madrid insists on making victory their only reason for being.

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