Italy international Franco Vazquez was on target, but 10-man Sevilla capitulated 3-2 to Real Madrid after extra time in the European Super Cup.
The winners of the Champions League and Europa League faced off in Trondheim, Norway this evening to open the 2016-17 season proper.
Zinedine Zidane had to do without Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale after Euro 2016, but his pick of youngster Marco Asensio proved inspired.
Asensio opened the scoring with a scorcher from 25 yards that flew into the far top corner, catching goalkeeper Sergio Rico by surprise.
Italy international Franco Vazquez was on target, but 10-man Sevilla capitulated 3-2 to Real Madrid after extra time in the European Super Cup.
The winners of the Champions League and Europa League faced off in Trondheim, Norway this evening to open the 2016-17 season proper.
Zinedine Zidane had to do without Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale after Euro 2016, but his pick of youngster Marco Asensio proved inspired.
Asensio opened the scoring with a scorcher from 25 yards that flew into the far top corner, catching goalkeeper Sergio Rico by surprise.
Sevilla fought back under new Coach Jorge Sampaoli and equalised with Italy international Vazquez.
The former Palermo star scored with his first shot in a Sevilla jersey, pouncing on a Roberto Vitolo control to smash a half-volley from the edge of the box into the bottom far corner.
Vazquez had started out wide on the left, but was quickly moved into a trequartista role behind the strikers.
Sevilla seemed to be in better physical shape, having started their pre-season preparations earlier, and Sergio Ramos gave away a soft penalty by tripping Vitolo.
Yevhen Konoplyanka had only just come off the bench, but calmly stroked his penalty past Kiko Casilla.
Real Madrid poured forward to the final whistle and Rico was decisive on a Dani Carvajal strike, but deep into stoppages Ramos made up for his earlier error by nodding a Lucas Vazquez cross in from point-blank range.
It forced extra time in Trondheim and very quickly Sevilla were reduced to 10 men for a second Timothee Kolodziekczak bookable offence.
Ramos thought he had completed his brace with a diving header on 99 minutes, but it was disallowed for a shirt-tug. Lucas Vazquez had beaten Rico only to be denied by an Adil Rami goal-line clearance.
Rico’s heroics weren’t enough to take this clash to a penalty shoot-out, as with 60 seconds remaining Dani Carvajal went on a stunning solo run down the right and prodded in with the outside of the boot to give Real Madrid victory.
Real Madrid 3-2 Sevilla aet
Asensio 21 (R), Vazquez 41 (S), Konoplyanka pen 72 (S), Ramos 90+3 (R), Carvajal 119 (R)
Real Madrid: Casilla; Carvajal, Varane, Ramos, Marcelo; Kovacic (James Rodriguez 73), Casemiro, Isco (Modric 66); Lucas Vazquez, Morata (Benzema 62), Asensio 28
Sevilla: Rico; Pareja, Daniel Carriço (Rami 51), Kolodziekczak; Kiyotake, Iborra (Kranevitter 74), N’Zonzi, Vazquez; Mariano Ferreira, Vietto (Konoplyanka 67), Vitolo
Ref: Mazic (SRB)
Sent off: Kolodziekczak 93 (S)