{"id":59228,"date":"2017-08-09T08:55:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T07:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=59228"},"modified":"2024-02-17T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T12:44:07","slug":"real-madrid-edges-manu-for-super-cup-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/real-madrid-edges-manu-for-super-cup-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid edges ManU for Super Cup title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-59230 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/real-madrid.jpg\" alt=\"Real Madrid edges ManU for Super Cup title\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/real-madrid.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/real-madrid-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Goals by Casemiro, Isco help Madrid to it fourth Super Cup<\/h2>\n<p>Real Madrid held its ground Tuesday to win the UEFA Super Cup for the second straight year, defeating Manchester United 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Fans watched the two sides go head-to-head in a battle for the prestigious cup at the Philip II Arena in Skopje, Macedonia.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid drew first blood in the 24th minute when Brazilian midfielder Casemiro slid and shot the ball past goalkeeper David de Gea.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how things stood for the remained of the first-half, and things got even better at the start of the second-half for the Spanish giants.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco Roman Alarc0n Suarez, or Isco, played a one-two ball with Gareth Bale and calmly finished with a finesse strike in the 52nd minute, giving his team a comfortable 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United responded with new signing, Romelu Lukaku, who scored in his first-ever competitive match for the English side in the 62nd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid managed to hold off ManU in the remaining time to claim its fourth Super Cup and with it, became the first team to win back-to-back titles since AC Milan did it in 1989 and 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Only Milan and Barcelona have more Super Cups than Real Madrid, with five victories apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Anadolu Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goals by Casemiro, Isco help Madrid to it fourth Super Cup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,80,127],"tags":[12921,3028,12133],"class_list":["post-59228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-breaking-news","category-sport","tag-gareth-bale","tag-real-madrid","tag-super-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79363,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59228\/revisions\/79363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}