The 2012 edition of the UEFA Super Cup, pitting the
current Champions League holder Chelsea against
the current Europa League holder Atletico Madrid
was indeed super...in an incredibly lopsided way.
Chelsea looked listless and disinterested, and
Atletico took advantage riding a Falcao hat trick to a
4-1 thrashing of the Blues.
Atletico Madrid came out of the gates like a concert
fan who's first through the entrance with a ticket for
the general admission section right in front of the
stage. In the 4th minute, Falcao redirected a cross
from Filipe Kasmirski off the bottom of the bar that
just missed going in. Fortunately for Atletico fans,
Falcao subscribes to the "if at first you don't succeed, try try
again" motto. Just two minutes later Falcao split the Cheslea defense
and ran down a beautiful ball over the top of the back line. He took
his time and chipped Cech to the far post, deflecting the ball off the
post and in to the net, despite a great effort from Luiz to keep it
out.
Falcao wasn't done yet. In the 19th minute after
again picking apart Chelsea's shaky midfield and
defense, the striker set-up just inside the box, froze
the defenders and lined up Cech before beating the
keeper with a curling shot in to the top, far corner.
Lovely goal and a 2-0 lead for Atletico. Because
Falcao believes that two hat tricks in five days are
totally cool, which of course it is, he went ahead and
got his third goal of the evening right before first half stoppage time.
The second half was only different from the first in
that Chelsea finally scored, Atletico only scored once
and it wasn't Falcao. After a free kick in the 60th
minute inexplicably got past multiple Chelsea
defenders, Miranda came streaking in and chipped
the ball over Cech and past a sliding Gary Cahill to
put the Spanish side up 4-0.
Cahill scored a consolation goal in the 74th minute
thanks to a nice shot that founds it's way through a
traffic and under the legs of Atletico goalkeeper
Thibaut Courtois.
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