A Supercup is also considered a bridge between two seasons.

The following rule applies: if you didn't win a title in the old season, you can't win this somewhat underestimated trophy in the new one either.

Champions League winners Real Madrid beat Europa League winners Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 in Helsinki on Wednesday.

For the Bundesliga club in particular, the game was a reward for the triumphant dream trip through Europe in recent months.

Tobias Rabe

Responsible editor for Sport Online.

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Real Madrid are used to such games for cups.

In the past eight seasons alone, the royals have won the Champions League, the Club World Cup and now the European Supercup four times.

Always there: Toni Kroos.

After the successful 2014 World Cup in Brazil, he moved from FC Bayern to Spain.

Against Eintracht he won his twelfth international title with Real.

In addition, there is a success in each of these competitions with the Munich team.

This leads to an impressive statistic: record winners of the Supercup are AC Milan, FC Barcelona and Real Madrid with five wins each.

Kroos now has just as many wins in the competition of the European football union Uefa.

Kroos is also extremely successful with his teams nationally.

Eight titles with FC Bayern are enriched with six in Spain, that makes a total of 29 club cups plus the golden World Cup trophy with the German national team.

With this record, critical voices are rare.

If they can be heard, it makes you sit up and take notice, even with Kroos.

There was such a moment after the Champions League final in May, which Real beat Liverpool 1-0.

Kroos could have ignored the critical undertone of ZDF reporter Nils Kaben.

He didn't, but reacted immediately after the game in a way that is probably remembered by more fans than Real Madrid's final goalscorer.

Kroos abruptly ended the interview in Paris in front of the camera and snapped at the journalists: "You had 90 minutes to think about sensible questions and then you ask me two shitty questions," said Kroos and left.

He was asked whether it was surprising that Real had come under so much pressure in the final.

Later, Kroos showed little understanding that he had overshot the mark: "Perhaps the word 'shit question' could have been left out and it could have been left with 'dirty question'."

On Wednesday in Helsinki, on the other hand, everything in the media was in Kroos' senses.

During an interview with the streaming service DAZN, the red carpet was even rolled out verbally when he was received by reporter Daniel Herzog in reference to the Paris incident: “Toni, I even had a little more than 90 minutes to ask critical questions think: I couldn't think of any.

I have to be honest: It was a pleasure watching you guys today.

How much fun is it to be on the pitch with this team?”

Kroos beamed and gratefully accepted the template.

"It's extremely fun," he said.

After that it was about the upheaval in the team, from which the 32-year-old Kroos will not be able to escape forever ("It will be over at some point"), the strong young stars who will follow, compatriot and new signing Antonio Rüdiger, who came on late as a substitute, and Real's impressive winning streak.

Later, Kroos also stopped by in front of the ZDF camera.

Apparently neither he nor the broadcaster have a grudge.

This time, however, it was not Nils Kaben who asked the questions.

There were no critical tones.