ARSENAL have beaten Man City in the Community Shield after a stunning penalty shoot-out at Wembley.
Kevin De Bruyne and Rodri both missed spot-kicks as the Gunners won 4-1 on penalties after the game ended 1-1 in normal time.
Leandro Trossard scored a dramatic 100th-minute equaliser to send the match into penalties to level Cole Palmer’s strike.
- Result: Man City 1-1 Arsenal (Arsenal win 4-1 on pens)
- Arsenal XI: Ramsdale, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Timber, Partey, Rice, Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli, Havertz
- Man City XI: Ortega Moreno, Walker, Stones, Dias, Akanji, Rodrigo, Kovacic, Bernardo, Grealish, Alvarez, Haaland
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Aaron Ramsdale reacts
Arsenal star Aaron Ramsdale revealed the Community Shield triumph was a result of a “two-year” plan.
We worked hard on it. We’ve been working hard for two years.
We haven’t had luck which was probably needed in previous seasons. We’ve stuck at it. It’s worked today.
City are a bit behind their pre-season. For us, it’s a statement. It’s a marker to know we can go and beat Man City in a big game when it matters.
I’m not sure what it’ll be like this season. But that mental block is gone. We’re ready to push on now.
Aaron Ramsdale
Declan Rice reacts
Arsenal star Declan Rice revealed this is how he “visioned” the beginning of his Emirates stint when he joined for a record £105million.
I am buzzing, this is what I visioned when I joined. City gave us what we expected, but I am buzzing – so happy.
You have to have the patience against them, you have to have mini games within the game against them like the manager said to us before. To win today, my first for the club.
I feel I’ve grown a lot in the last three weeks. There’s a lot of information to take in of what the manager wants. I’m eager to learn and keep improving.
I’m sure we can achieve anything this season – we just need to remain focused.
Declan Rice
Gaffer eases pain of last season
Mikel Arteta went some way today to react to the pain of missing out on the Premier League title last season.
While the win will not got rid of the scars, it gets his side over any mental block of not thinking they can go all the way.
The Spanish manager will be hoping this is just the first of the silverware this season has to bring.
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Rice has the Midas touch for medals
Declan Rice has won two trophies in his last two games.
Firstly winning the Europe Conference League in his final game for West Ham at the end of last season, then winning the Community Shield in his first game for Arsenal.
Life cannot get much sweeter for the England midfielder right now, although he may be running out of space in his trophy cabinet at home.
Credit: AP Gunners shoot down champions
Mikel Arteta has always struggled to get one over his old employers.
Learning his trade under the tutorship of Pep Guardiola, the apprentice has come out on top at Wembley today.
Arsenal can take a huge amount of confidence from this, looking to build upon it for the season ahead.
Credit: AP City lose invincible treble feeling
It was only a few months ago that Man City were on cloud nine.
They had won the treble and felt anything was possible and nobody could beat them.
Say what you want about the Community Shield, this will hurt and leave Man City feeling more than beatable.
Pep Guardiola will have to pick his side up from this and look to bounce back in style.
Credit: Getty Credit: Getty Ramsdale answers critics in style
While his manager was working to bring in David Raya from Brentford, Aaron Ramsdale was focussed on getting on with his job.
Today, he proved his worth, making two crucial saves from Phil Foden and Rodri to keep The Gunners in the game at 1-0 down.
He then went on to become the hero as he saved Rodri’s penalty to put his side one penalty away from winning the Community Shield.
Credit: Getty Credit: AFP Arsenal finally get their hands on silverware
If you win it, it’s an important trophy and this one will be used as a springboard for Arsenal’s season this campaign.
All seemed lost as they headed into added time, but The Gunners managed to do the unthinkable and dent the confidence of rivals Man City in the process.
You can see how much it means to these players, they want to get that winning mentality, starting with the Community Shield.
Credit: Getty Time to Partey for Arsenal
While all the talk this summer was the signing of Declan Rice and how he will play with Martin Odegaard, it was one of the old guard who starred today.
Thomas Partey covered so much ground in the middle of the park, he stopped Man City’s midfielders controlling the game.
Sometimes the hard work isn’t the prettiest but Partey did an important job for Mikel Arteta’s side today.
FT: Arsenal 1-1 Man City (4-1 on penalties)
Lee Dixon had already awarded Cole Palmer the ‘man of the match’ award before we headed into added time.
That will be a bitter sweet accolade for the young Man City player to accept now.
Mikel Arteta is all smiles as he walks up the Wembley stairs to collect their winners’ medals and Community Shield.
Credit: Getty FT: Arsenal 1-1 Man City (4-1 on penalties)
As the stats show, Arsenal probably deserved their equaliser as over the course of the game it was quite an even affair.
Man City thought Cole Palmer’s goal had won the game for them, until Leandro Trossard broke the hearts of the fans in blue.
Confidence was high with The Gunners following the late drama and they went on to win the penalty shootout.
FT: Arsenal 1-1 Man City (4-1 on penalties)
Unbelievable scenes at Wembley!!
With only seconds left in the game, Leandro Trossard’s shot takes a deflection off Manuel Akanji and ends up in the back of the net.
Man City’s players looked stunned, they then had to regather themselves for the penalty shootout.
Kevin De Bruyne rattled the woodwork with one penalty before Rodri’s weak effort was saved by Aaron Ramsdale.
The Gunners did not miss a single spot-kick and win the Community Shield.
Credit: Reuters Arsenal win the Community Shield (4-1 on penalties)
Goal – Fabio Viera (Arsenal) 4-1
Missed penalty – Rodri (Man City) 3-1
Goal – Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) 3-1
Goal – Bernardo Silva (Man City) 2-1
Goal – Leandro Trossard (Arsenal) 2-0
Missed penalty – Kevin De Bruyne (Man City) 1-0
Goal – Martin Odegaard (Arsenal) 1-0
Penalty shootout to start….
FT: Arsenal 1-1 Man City
Both sides will be relieved there is no extra time here.
It makes perfect sense with this being the curtain-raiser to the season.
The fans are getting their money’s worth with the excitement and drama and now we have penalties to enjoy.
FT: Arsenal 1-1 Man City
What an end to the game that was.
The final twenty minutes of the game was what we had all been hoping for from this game today.
Man City are stunned by Trossard’s late strike and we are heading to penalties.
Arsenal 1-1 Man City
90+12. Unbelievable scenes at Wembley.
Not sure Trossard will keep that goal as it took a massive deflection off Akanji, wrong-footing Ortega.
There may still be time for a winner, nobody knows how long is left now.
Goal – Leandro Trossard (Arsenal)
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
