The new season has started with the qualifying matches for the Champions League and the Europa Conference League. However, we have become accustomed in previous years to the fact that the European Super Cup is, in a way, the official opening of continental competitions.Last season was marked by Chelsea, which overpowered Manchester City in the UCL final, and Villarreal triumph in the Europa League. Now, the moment has come for us to get the absolute champion of the Old Continent. A trophy that has no significance like the two they won last spring, but prestige guarantees a serious approach.Wed 22.00: (1.85) Chelsea (3.45) Villareal (4.50)In the blue corner, with seven European cups, six English titles, and eight FA Cups are Chelsea, and in the yellow is Villarreal, which has two UEFA Intertoto Cups and the Europa League trophy in their showcase. However, the Yellow Submarine is led by Unai Emery, the former tactician of Sevilla, PSG and Arsenal, who has shown that he knows how to conquer the continental flag.In Gdansk’s final, Villarreal defeated Manchester United 11-10 after a penalty shootout, after and 1-1 in 120 minutes.”I want to win the Super Cup because I haven’t succeeded yet. I’ve lost twice. I want to recreate history and achieve something big before the start of the new season. The Super Cup will show us what we are capable of against opponents like Chelsea, the current European champions and for me, currently the best team in the world, “Emery pointed out.Unai Emery yesterday (©Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)This is the fifth final of the European Super Cup for Chelsea. The Blues do not like to remember the last three. Liverpool defeated them, just like Bayern and Atletico Madrid – two previous times on penalties.This will, therefore, be a special moment for both Thomas Tuchel and his young team.”I respect Villarreal and Unai Emery a lot. They will soon have to rename the Europa League into the Unai Emery trophy. It’s amazing. He played five times in the final and won four times, which is crazy. I think they approach the game, so they have nothing to lose. But we take it very seriously and do everything we can to take the trophy home”, explained Tuchel.A unique motive for the Blues should be that by winning the Super Cup, they can enter the club annals as the generation that provided Chelsea with a breakthrough in the TOP 10 European greats in terms of the number of continental trophies.You don’t save those! 🚀𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀. ⤵️— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) August 11, 2021 And perhaps more importantly – with the new, eighth European Cup, the Blues are overtaking Manchester United on that list (8-7), so that only Liverpool remains ahead of them from the English clubs. In general, only Ajax (10), Juventus (10), Bayern (12), Liverpool (13), Barcelona (14), Milan (17) and Real Madrid (22) would have more trophies than the club from Stamford Bridge.Chelsea are still swimming in the positive wave of the UCL final. An excellent job on the football market and the successfully completed mission of the return of Romelu Lukaku strengthens the feeling of comfort in and around the club, and such an ambience can be crucial before the big games.##EDITORS_CHOICE##Chelsea did not lose during the pre-season, while Villarreal did not win a single game. The game will be played at Windsor Park in Belfast – another ‘detail’ that benefits the English team. On the other hand, Spanish teams are the most successful of all in the UEFA Super Cup and have already won it a total of 15 times.
