PSG 2-1 Aston Villa: back-to-back Super Cups, and a 17-year-old who made history

Paris Saint-Germain are UEFA Super Cup holders for the second season in a row. The Champions League winners beat Europa League winners Aston Villa 2-1 at the Red Bull Arena in Salzburg, in front of 27,681 people, on a night that produced a record nobody in Birmingham will mind owning: Brian Madjo, 17 years and 212 days old, became the youngest player ever to score in the competition.

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia put PSG ahead at 20 minutes — the first Georgian to score in a UEFA Super Cup — and Désiré Doué won it at 60, with a goal that was flagged offside on the pitch and given back after VAR showed Matty Cash playing him on. Doué took the man of the match award. Villa took the moral victory of an hour in which they were entirely in the game.

The 17-year-old who levelled it

Madjo's equaliser arrived at 45 minutes, a volley struck on the stroke of half-time, and it came only because CAS had recently cleared him to play for Villa. He is now both the youngest player to appear in the UEFA Super Cup and the youngest to score in it — two records set inside 45 minutes of his first European final.

Villa did not simply defend, either. This was a low-volume final: PSG managed seven shots to Villa's three, and both goalkeepers were busy enough — Matvey Safonov made three saves, Marco Bizot four. The margin came from PSG's ability to find the finish when the chance was half a chance, which is roughly the difference the Champions League winners are supposed to bring.

Match facts

• 20' — Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (PSG)
• 45' — Brian Madjo (Aston Villa), the competition's youngest ever scorer at 17y 212d
• 60' — Désiré Doué (PSG), awarded after a VAR offside review
• Yellow cards: Pau Torres 51', Gomes 64', McGinn 72' (all Aston Villa); PSG none
• Referee: Omar Artan (Somalia) — the first non-European to referee the UEFA Super Cup
• Red Bull Arena, Salzburg — attendance 27,681

The line-ups

PSG started Safonov in goal behind Hakimi, Marquinhos (captain), Pacho and Nuno Mendes, with Neves, Vitinha and Zaïre-Emery in midfield and Akliouche, Doué and Kvaratskhelia ahead of them. Ousmane Dembélé came on at half-time and Barcola followed later. Villa lined up with Bizot; Cash, Lindelöf, Pau Torres, Maatsen; McGinn (captain), Gomes, Kamara; Hemmings, Buendía and Madjo, with Tammy Abraham among the changes on 72 minutes.

A referee appointment that said something

The match was also the first UEFA Super Cup handled by a non-European official. Somalia's Omar Artan, who had been kept off the World Cup roster in the United States, took the whistle — a pointed piece of selection from UEFA given where its relationship with FIFA currently sits. He finished the night with three cards, all of them Villa's, and no serious controversy beyond the Doué review.

What it means

For PSG it is a second consecutive Super Cup and confirmation that the side which won the Champions League has not come back from the summer diminished. For Aston Villa, whose route here was the Europa League title, it is a European night that ended without the trophy but with an hour of evidence that they belong at this table — and a 17-year-old who has just written his name into the competition's record book. Guriball's Super Cups section starts here, and there is plenty more of it to come.