Atalanta's Nigerian forward #11 Ademola Lookman attends a training session on the eve of the UEFA Super Cup football match Real Madrid v Atalanta Bergamo in Warsaw, Poland, on August 13, 2024. The 2024 UEFA Super Cup final football match between Real Madrid and Atalanta will be held on August 14, 2024 at the National Stadium in Warsaw. (Photo by Sergei GAPON / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI GAPON/AFP via Getty Images)

Atalanta rely on Ademola Lookman and Charles De Ketelaere amid a personnel crisis in the UEFA Super Cup, while Carlo Ancelotti gives Kylian Mbappé his Real Madrid debut from the start.

It kicks off at the National Stadium in Warsaw at 20.00 UK time (19.00 GMT).

You can follow all the build-up and action as it happens on the LIVEBLOG.

If there is no Super Cup winner after 90 minutes, then it goes straight to a penalty shoot-out rather than requiring extra time.

The Super Cup is between the holders of the Champions League and Europa League from the previous season.

Atalanta won their first ever piece of European silverware with the Europa League, stunning favourites Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 thanks to a Lookman hat-trick.

However, they are decimated going into this game, with Gianluca Scamacca and Giorgio Scalvini out for six months with torn anterior cruciate ligaments, Nicolò Zaniolo and Rafael Toloi injured, plus Teun Koopmeiners withdrawing so he can force through a transfer to Juventus.

New signing Mateo Retegui is on the bench, as De Ketelaere and Lookman lead the way with Mario Pasalic in support.

Real Madrid have the opposite problem, having added so many attacking talents that Ancelotti must find a way to balance them all in one line-up.

Mbappé is given his debut from the start along with Vinicius Junior and Rodrygo, dropping Jude Bellingham into a deeper role.

Toni Kroos has now retired and Eduardo Camavinga suffered a knee injury during the warm-up last night, so it is a reshuffled midfield.

UEFA Super Cup line-ups

Real Madrid: Courtois; Carvajal, Rudiger, Militao, Mendy; Valverde, Tchaouameni, Bellingham; Rodrygo, Mbappé, Vinicius

Real Madrid bench: Lunin, Fran Gonzalez, Camavinga, Modric, Arda Guler, Endrick, Lucas Vasquez, Vallejo, D Ceballos, Fran Garcia, Brahim Diaz, Jacobo Ramon

Atalanta: Musso; Djimsiti, Hien, Kolasinac; Zappacosta, De Roon, Ederson, Ruggeri; Pasalic; De Ketelaere, Lookman

Atalanta bench: Carnesecchi, Rossi, Godfrey, Sulemana, Bakker, Cassa, Palestra, Retegui, Comi, Tornaghi, Manzoni, Vavassori

Ref: Schärer (SUI)

14-08-2024 20:00
Final

Player statistic

1st half
    9' Yellow card Éderson
Jude Bellingham Yellow card 35'    
Vinícius Júnior Yellow card 42'    
2nd half
Federico Valverde
(Assist: Vinícius Júnior)
Goal 59'    
    64' Yellow card Berat Djimsiti
Kylian Mbappé
(Assist: Jude Bellingham)
Goal 68'    

Match statistic

52
Possession %
48
13
Total shots
8
6
Shots on target
1
4
Shots off target
4
3
Blocked shots
3
5
Corners
2
0
Offsides
0
12
Fouls
19
Real Madrid
Atalanta

Starting lineups

1
Goalkeeper
22
Defender
2
Defender
88'
3
Defender
23
Defender
14
8
Midfielder
5
Midfielder
88'
9
Attacker
83'
11
Attacker
76'
7
88'
1
Goalkeeper
19
Defender
77
63'
4
Defender
90'
22
Defender
23
Defender
70'
13
Midfielder
8
Midfielder
90'
15
Midfielder
11
Attacker
17
63'

Substitutes

13
Goalkeeper
6
Midfielder
18
Defender
20
Defender
26
Goalkeeper
31
Defender
16
Attacker
10
Midfielder
76'
21
Midfielder
83'
17
Attacker
88'
15
Midfielder
88'
19
Midfielder
88'
31
Goalkeeper
29
Goalkeeper
6
Midfielder
40
Defender
25
Midfielder
41
Defender
45
Midfielder
32
Attacker
63'
5
Defender
63'
20
Defender
70'
27
Defender
90'
44
Midfielder
90'

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