Arsenal defeated Manchester City after penalty kicks in the Community Shield, which traditionally opens the English top football season.
The Community Shield, the traditional opening of the English top football season, was played on Sunday, where the winners of the Premier League and the FA Cup usually meet. Since Manchester City won not only the Premier League and the Champions League but also the FA Cup last season, the Manchester City team had Arsenal, who finished second in the Premier League last season, as their opponent for Sunday’s match.
Both goals of the even match were seen in the second half. City took the lead in the midfielder by Cole Palmer with a spiraling drive towards the back corner when there were 77 minutes on the clock. The goal was scored by a passer who had been replaced on the field a little earlier Kevin de Bruyne.
Arsenal’s equalizer came in second-half stoppage time when the winger, who moved to Arsenal from Brighton last season, by Leandro Trossardi the bet went to a City player Manuel Akanjin from the foot to the wigs of the goal net. In the match that ended 1–1, no overtime was played, but the teams were marched directly to penalty kicks, which Arsenal won 4–1.
The summer signings were seen in the lineups of both teams. City pilot Pep Guardiola gave credit to the midfield work party who moved from Chelsea to Manchester For Mateo Kovacic. Gunners Mikel Arteta marched the striker who moved from Chelsea to the opening of his summer acquisitions Kai Havertza defender acquired from Ajax Jurrien Timber and I follow the midfielder who transferred from West Ham for a record sum of more than 120 million euros By Declan Rice.
The starting line-ups of both coaches would have stood up to a comparison with the player lists of the Premier League’s top matches, but the fact that City’s number one keeper started at the hatch speaks volumes for the importance of the match Ederson’s instead of German Stefan Ortega. City’s new captain and midfield conductor de Bruyne, who also suffered an injury during the summer, started the match from the bench.
Guardiola started the match atypically with two strikers, the one who scored no fewer than 36 goals in the Premier League last season With Erling Haaland as well as the one left in the shadow of the Norwegian With Julian Alvarez. In the next season, the simultaneous play of a pair of attackers will not necessarily be a rare sight, even though today the combined result of the duo on the offensive end was non-existent.
On the sidelines, Guardiola was almost invisible, while Arteta let his fiery nature show. Concrete proof of this was already at the 17th minute, when the Arsenal coach took a warning when demanding a card for a City player To Rodri. Arteta knows that in the coming season Arsenal’s young team, which has shown its striking ability, needs the coach’s energy on the side of the field and a backbone to lean on.
Arsenal made it difficult for the Manchester players, who are used to ball control, to progress and the blue shirts kept the ball largely outside of the Gunners’ defensive formation. As the match progressed, Arsenal got a press line into the Manchester side’s half of the field during City’s possession.
At halftime, Guardiola had clearly compromised on ball control and the sky blues of Manchester took advantage of quick changes of situation. However, after losing the ball, the Arsenal players created a multiple superiority in their own half of the field and for example Haaland found himself alone against four or five red shirts.
Arsenal, welded together in the match, showed uncompromising character, which was rewarded by the equalizer made in extra time and cold-headed Ammutut penalty kicks. Heading into the new season, coach Arteta clearly knows how to fire up a young team and keep them calm under pressure at the same time. Similar increases would not have been seen in previous seasons, even if the importance of the Community Shield is at the tail end of the trophies won.
Arsenal’s current position is strongly emphasized by the young team, which is personified in the background of the players by the wedding line Arteta. Arteta has coached the club he represented in 2011–2016 since December 2019. At the moment, the Gunners are gathering almost the same enthusiasm under the Spanish coach as they got used to in North London Arsene Wenger’s in the era at the turn of the 21st century.
Like Arteta, they started as coaches at the same time with club legend status Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at Manchester United (in the 2018–2019 season) and Frank Lampard At Chelsea (2019–2020). The truth is, however, that Arteta is the only one of the aforementioned who is still piloting his club from the time of his playing career. Arteta’s first years at the end of the Arsenal bench were not successful. Even the places that qualify for the Champions League were not attainable at that time, but Arteta, who previously grew up as a coach under Pep Guardiola’s teachings, has had time to develop at Arsenal. Now Arsenal is reaping that harvest under the coach who captained the club for two seasons between 2014 and 2016.