Chelsea vs Villarreal, Super Cup Final, 8pm k.o., VM Sport & BT Sport

Mr.Nice Guy

A chance for Thomas Tuchel and Unai Emery to pick up a further piece of silverware in tonight's game at Windsor Park. Teams:

Chelsea XI: Mendy; Zouma, Chalobah, Rudiger; Hudson-Odoi, Kante, Kovacic, Alonso; Havertz, Ziyech; Werner.

Villarreal XI: Asenjo; Foyth, Albiol, Pau Torres, Pedraza; Trigueros, Capoue, Alberto Moreno; Pino, Gerard Moreno, Dia.

Who do you reckon wins? I'll go Chelsea by a goal.

PsychoPete

I'd completely forgotten Villareal beat United in the europa league final. Expecting a Chelsea win here

y0ssar1an22

chelsea strike. nicely worked goal

PsychoPete

That was a lovely goal and build up from Chelsea

Mr.Nice Guy

It would be nice to see Ziyech kick on after a tough start to his Chelsea career.

Mr.Nice Guy

And after writing the above, now it looks like he has a bad shoulder injury.

y0ssar1an22

close to a red on seeing the replay from rudiger

Mr.Nice Guy

How did that Alberto Moreno shot stay out. Bar is probably still shaking.

y0ssar1an22

villareal getting no luck here. should have equalised there

Mr.Nice Guy

Gerard Moreno scores. Deserved equaliser. Lovely finish.

y0ssar1an22

lovely equaliser from villareal.

thats a few times chelsea have been caught trying to play it out from the back

namloc1980

That was a lovely goal.

~Rebel~

Seems a bit mad that it goes to extra time instead of straight to pens…

AllGunsBlazing

Extra time seems a bit much for a glorified curtain raiser.

PsychoPete

This should have really went straight to pens. Thought this thread would be alot busier

Mr.Nice Guy

Chelsea looking to sub on Kepa for the pens.

y0ssar1an22

kepa coming on for peno's?

wasnt too long ago he was getting hooked for peno's (or sarri tried to at least).

y0ssar1an22

havertz misses #1

~Rebel~

Awful one from Havertz, about as bad as pens get while being on target - easy height, close to the keeper, and no power.

Great one from Azpi though.

y0ssar1an22

and moreno gets lucky, in off the post

machiavellianme

This site loading so slowly takes away from the atmosphere of the shootout

namloc1980

Not a fan of the behind the kicker view for penalties.

y0ssar1an22

lovely peno from azil

y0ssar1an22

1-1 after 2

martingriff

2 have never taken club penalties

~Rebel~

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117740365#Comment_117740365

Clear your cache or something I’d say, the speed issues got fixed a while back.

machiavellianme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117740377#Comment_117740377

Nope, still slow.

Just like that peno from Jorginho

y0ssar1an22

3-3 after 4.

kepa booked during the 3rd

y0ssar1an22

keeper should stand his ground here

y0ssar1an22

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117740391#Comment_117740391

and dives as jorginho pops it down the middle

namloc1980

Jorginho scored the penalty he missed in the Euro final.

machiavellianme

Sudden death. How exciting

y0ssar1an22

sudden death

~Rebel~

Confident one from Pulisic there.

~Rebel~

Good one from Foyth - Kepa seemed to move very early though.

machiavellianme

Foyth was lucky the keeper went the other way. Very save able otherwise

y0ssar1an22

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117740404#Comment_117740404

dived far too early

machiavellianme

Woeful peno and easy save

y0ssar1an22

jesus keeper. what a time to stand your ground

Mr.Nice Guy

Tuchel's done it again.

y0ssar1an22

kepa the hero. chelsea win

~Rebel~

It's Chelsea's anyway. Good call from Tuchel to swap keepers it seems.

Nearly every shootout I watch seems to be won by the first team. Was that the case for all the shootouts in the Euros? Or were Italy second against the Spaniards?

<edit> no Italy were first in that one too. So the last bunch of shootouts I've seen were tonights, Italy England, Italy Spain, Spain Switzerland, Switzerland France, Villareal Utd - 6 shootouts, and all won by the team that went first.

AllGunsBlazing

Chelsea's training gear has a very Dortmund look to it.

BorneTobyWilde

Considering in a penalty shoot out, maybe only 5 players from each team take part in most cases, so I'd rather see the game opened up for extra time, 10v10 for first ten minutes, 9v9 for next 10 minutes, 8v8 for next 10 minutes 7v7 for next 10 minutes .

More exciting, and more players play a part.

AllGunsBlazing

Thought one of the officials was about to pull an England there and take off the medal.

~Rebel~

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117740446#Comment_117740446

In theory not a bad idea, but in practice I'd imagine you'd see full strength defences, with the missing men coming from the attacks. Maybe go the other way, and go 13-a-side :p