Arsenal vs Man City LIVE: Community Shield result, final score and reaction as Gunners win on penalties

The Community Shield is always a game for the calendar - the official opening of elite action in England’s men’s game. This time around it’s treble-winners Manchester City and last season’s Premier League runners-up Arsenal who meet at Wembley, fighting for the first prize of the new campaign.

Mikel Arteta has added the likes of Declan Rice and Kai Havertz to his squad this summer, while Mateo Kovacic has traded Chelsea for Man City as a replacement for Ilkay Gundogan.

While not usually a match which foretells the fortunes of the season ahead, it’s still an intriguing opportunity to see where these respective squads are ahead of the opening game of the 2023/24 league next term. Follow live updates from the Community Shield at Wembley below:

Community Shield - LIVE

• Arsenal vs Man City - 4pm KO live on ITV

• ARS XI: Ramsdale, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Timber, Partey, Rice, Odegaard, Saka, Havertz, Martinelli.

• MCI: Ortega Moreno, Walker, Stones, Dias, Akanji, Rodrigo, Kovacic, Bernardo, Grealish, Alvarez, Haaland

• Goal! 76’ - Palmer curls a brilliant top-corner strike to put City ahead (0-1)

• Goal! 90+11’ - Trossard’s shot takes a double deflection and rolls in for a late equaliser (1-1)

Arsenal beat Man City in Community Shield on penalties

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Ref Stuart Attwell and his team of officials go up to collect their medals amid a massive round of boos. Judging by that performance it might not be the last he hears of that particular noise - maybe he’s in pre-season mode too still.

City go up next to get their losers’ medals, not something they were accustomed to after last season.

Here are the images from the penalties which mattered: Rodri’s saved, Vieira’s hitting the top corner.

Arsenal beat Man City in Community Shield on penalties

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Captain Martin Odegaard:

“We believed all the way until the end - that’s what this team is about. Today was for the fans - thanks so much for everything you do. The team spirit we have, we fight for each other. It’s the perfect start to the new season.”

Arsenal 1-1 Man City - PENS

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Fabio Vieira for Arsenal...SCORES!

Top-corner finish and Arsenal win the Community Shield! 4-2 on penalties.

Arsenal 1-1 Man City - PENS

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Rodri steps up....SAVED by Ramsdale!

Terrible penalty in truth and easily saved by the keeper. Now it’s going be Vieira to win it!

Arsenal 1-1 Man City - PENS

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Up steps Bernardo Silva ...scores! Nicely tucked away. 2-2.

Next is Saka...scuffed, but in! 3-2 to Arsenal after three each.

Arsenal 1-1 Man City - PENS

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Leandro Trossard steps up for the Gunners, having had that final shot which took two deflections and ultimately ended in the net. From the penalty spot...SCORES!

Rolled into the bottom right corner. 2-1 to Arsenal.

Arsenal 1-1 Man City - PENS

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Kevin de Bruyne steps up....AND HITS THE BAR!! Absolutely belted it down the middle, slightly left, smacked the woodwork.

0-1 after one each.

Arsenal 1-1 Man City - PENS

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Arsenal’s first is in fact Martin Odegaard, up vs Ortega...GOAL! To the left, low, in. 1-0.

Arsenal 1-1 Man City - PENS: 0-0

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Right, we’ll be taking the shootout at the Arsenal fans’ end.

Here we go! Emile Smith Rowe will be first up

FT - Arsenal 1-1 Man City

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And that was about the last action of the game - we’ll go now to a penalty shoot-out to decide the winner! Full time at Wembley, 1-1.

GOAL! 90+11’ - Arsenal 1-1 Man City

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GOAL!

Absurd ending to the game! The corner is weak and cleared by the first man, it bounces out to Trossard who chops onto his left foot, shoots straight into one defender, it bounces sideways onto Akanji’s knee, deflects the complete opposite direction and rolls past Ortega into the net!

90+10’ - Arsenal 0-1 Man City

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Into and past 100 minutes. City fans whistling, wanting the result and the shield; Arsenal totally unable to create anything of note. Saka wastes the best chance with an overhit pass wide and that’s going to be just about that.

One final corner gets the Gunners’ faithful to their feet.

90+8’ - Arsenal 0-1 Man City

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Back underway finally after about another three minutes or so stoppage. Can Arsenal raise the tempo enough for a chance or two on goal?

A fair few fans have departed now from both camps but we’ve probably got another few minutes to play. Added time to added time and all that.

90’+4 - Arsenal 0-1 Man City

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Referee Stuart Attwell must be able to see into the future. Walker and Thomas clash heads on an aerial duel and both go down needing attention. Clearly, this is where the eight minutes added on were always intended to come from.

Arsenal’s other players regroup for a last-minute chat with Arteta but they’ve looked like making precious little happen in this half.

89’ - Arsenal 0-1 Man City

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Fair to suggest the Gunners missed their best moments of the match to score in the first half. They look tired and a bit ragged now - Ramsdale almost gifts De Bruyne a shooting chance with a poor pass out.

Rodri manages to escape almost as obvious a yellow card as Havertz earned in the first half for a pull-back.

We’re going to have...Eight minutes added on?! Arsenal fans happy at the time for a comeback but mostly, people here at Wembley are merely bemused. We’ve had no injuries since Odegaard’s early in the half and a normal amount of subs.

86’ - Arsenal 0-1 Man City

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Into the final five minutes of the game and City lead. A reminder that if the Gunners equalise and it ends a draw, we go straight to penalties. Emile Smith Rowe and Fabio Vieira come on for Gabriel and Havertz.

A total of 81,145 fans at Wembley today, we’re informed.

82’ - Arsenal 0-1 Man City

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Should be 2-0! Alvarez squirms through three challenges and squares for Foden who sidesteps the last defender and just has to beat Ramsdale...but the keeper gets a heel to the ball and flicks it wide for a corner! He then immediately makes another good, low stop to his right to prevent the flicked header going in off the set-piece.

80’ - Arsenal 0-1 Man City

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Ten minutes for the Gunners to find a way back into the game or it’s another trophy for City.

Nketiah on for Rice - who is booed by City fans for having the temerity to turn them down, naturally - as Arteta looks to push for an equaliser.

A few replays of that Palmer goal are absolutely gorgeous - Ramsdale nowhere near it, finds the gap between Gabriel and the post wonderfully. Not great from Tierney initially, just after coming on.

GOAL - 76’ - Arsenal 0-1 Man City

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GOAL!! Now Arteta does make a double change. Both down the left too: Tierney and Trossard, for Martinelli and Timber.

Tierney is immedately beaten by Cole Palmer - who bends a great shot into the far top corner!

72’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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City mounting rather omre pressure now. They seem to have stepped up a gear without much trouble, while Arsenal - maybe tiring, no subs yet - are now finding it a lot harder to get out of their own defensive third.

68’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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First big chance of note for City this half. It’s worked from left to right with Foden teeing up Palmer in the bo - his shot is blocked by Timber and flicks just over Ramsdale’s crossbar.

The short corner is worked all the way back out to Walker and his deep cross is cleared behind for yet another set piece on the opposite side.

64’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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Rice, tracking back, earns his first big roar of appreciation from the Arsenal fans for robbing Silva of the ball and setting the Gunners back on the front foot.

Moments later a fizzing cross from White is only half-met by Saka, then is quickly blocked and cleared. Arsenal continue to produce by far the more dangerous moments of the match.

60’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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Martinelli makes ground down the left, it’s worked back to Rice who curls one in first time...and nearly finds the upper tier of the Wembley stands.

More City subs on the way: Cole Palmer and Kevin de Bruyne for Erling Haaland and Mateo Kovacic.

56’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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Grealish replaced by Phil Foden as Pep goes to his bench first.

Dias overruns the ball slightly and clips Saka on the follow through - the England winger goes down but there’s no card out this time.

52’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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Odegaard is down for treatment so the rest of the 19 outfielders sprint across for a drinks break and some furious managerial gesticulation.

He looks fine to continue, the Arsenal skipper, and we’re back underway once more.

48’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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Early possession for City but not too much in the way of breaking Arsenal’s defensive lines. Guardiola has a few words with Stones which were clearly too important to say at half time all of three minutes ago.

Grealish beats White and crosses from the left, but Saliba, Thomas and Gabriel clear between them.

46' - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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Back underway at Wembley!

HT - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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All square at the break. Mikel Arteta and Kai Havertz among those in the book - more niggles and fouls than massive chances in that half.

The best have fallen to Arsenal’s new signing Havertz, but he’s been denied twice - Rodri has twice gone close from long range for Man City.

HT - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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And that’s the whistle. Strong first 45 from the Gunners overall, if only in bursts. City the more controlled team as you’d exect and they don’t look ruffled by anything Arsenal have thrown their way, but haven’t made much happen either.

44’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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Very, very nearly 1-0 - Rodri lobs Ramsdale from the halfway line and his shot just drops on top of the net! What a way to end the first half that would have been.

Martinelli is then robbed by Alvarez and his cross from the right also beats the Arsenal keeper - but Gabriel is on hand to clear from inside the six-yard box before Haaland can tap home.

40’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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Massive chance for Havertz to break the deadlock! A lovely reverse pass sees Saka into the box and behind his man, he cuts it back and the German’s right-footed shot is very well blocked by Ortega!

Kovacic launches a counter with a fine dribble and pass, but Haaland has no support and it peters out.

36’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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Saka winds his way past Akanji but is forced a little wider than he would have wanted as he bends a left-footed shot in. It flies well wide, but it underlines Arsenal’s minor attacking threat superiority in much of this first half.

City struggling to play out from deep at the moment.

32’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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Ramsdale’s errant touch has the ball spinning towards his own goal - with Haaland closing in. He just about gets there ahead of the striker to clear, before Alvarez soon after touches the ball away once it’s out for a free-kick. Yellow card for him, tremendous roars for Arsenal fans as though they’ve just lifted the title. Football as we know it, very much back. Apart from the goals.

28’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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Yellow card for Havertz for a very cynical trip on Stones as he rampaged away through the centre. Arsenal fans unhappy their team has another card but that was as blatant as you’ll see all year.

City unhurried at the moment; Arsenal have had less of the ball but more urgency and dangerous moments, save for Rodri’s long-rangers.

Both managers looking animated on the touchline.

24’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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Big chance, big block! White spins into the box, Havertz’s shot on the turn is saved and the rebound from Martinelli is straight into Stones’ chest. He’s down winded, Arsenal fans want a penalty, nothing given either way and on we go, goalless.

20’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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We’ve reached the point of the season already where every foul is met by baying, furious supporters demanding cards of varying colours for each player involved. Didn’t take long.

Mikel Arteta is spoken to again on the sidelines by the fourth official.

16’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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Stones is caught in possession and Havertz wins a free-kick. Arteta has a strop that no card is shown and is promptly shown one himself.

Kovacic is the man making City progress quickly through midfield and does so again, before another shot flies wide.

Havertz then this time holds up play well and spreads it to Martinelli, but Timber’s attempted turn into the box is stopped.

12’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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Fairly quiet start from the Gunners’ new front man Havertz - who many expected to be in midfield. Perhaps Eddie Nketiah also expected this, but he’s only sub today instead of starting in the absence of Gabriel Jesus.

Haaland and Alvarez tee up Rodri now and he scuffs one wide of the near post from 20 yards, via a slight deflection.

8’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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Yellow card for Thomas Partey. A minor pull-back results in a foul he disagrees with, he flicks the ball away and Stuart Attwell has no time whatsoever for such transgressions on this warm afternoon. Out comes the yellow and he’s the first name into teh book this term.

4’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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A first moment of threat form City as a break down the left results in a cross to the far post - but Arsenal defend both that, and the second delivery, resolutely.

Walker keeps the move alive and between he and Silva City work themselves back into a pattern of play which almost sees Kovacic break through - just about cleared this time by Gabriel.

Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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We are underway at Wembley!

Immediately a rousing chorus from the travelling-not-too-far Gunners fans, who are in fine voice as the 2023/24 season officially gets underway.

Declan Rice, as he did against Monaco in midweek, is playing slightly higher than sitting midfielder Thomas Partey - left side of midfield, with Martin Odegaard right in that trio.

Arsenal 0-0 Man City

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Anthems time at Wembley. Just a couple of minutes from kick-off!

Arsenal vs Man City - latest

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Plenty of noise and atmopshere now as Arsenal fans jeer ‘Blue Moon’ and then sing their own anthems over the top. City fans not too much reaction or response.

Now for the pre-match ceremonies including a handful of award-winners and the delivering of the matchball and trophy.

Arsenal vs Man City - latest

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Just under 15 minutes to go until kick off and the sprinklers are on at Wembley.

The players have been out for their warm-up, the crowd is filling up nic,ely and the sunshine is out, too.

Pretty much set for a lovely curtain-raiser.

Mikel Arteta says Arsenal striker Gabriel Jesus will ‘be back soon’ from injury

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Mikel Arteta is confident Gabriel Jesus will not miss much of the new season as he offered a positive early prognosis on the Arsenal forward’s knee surgery.

The Brazil international went under the knife on Wednesday after experiencing irritation following a more serious operation to treat an injury suffered at the World Cup.

Jesus spent three months on the sidelines recovering during last season as the Gunners ultimately fell short in their Premier League title tilt.

Having been absent for Wednesday night’s Emirates Cup clash with Monaco, Jesus will also miss the start of the new campaign – including Sunday’s Community Shield clash with former club Manchester City.

Mikel Arteta offers injury update on Arsenal striker Gabriel Jesus

Manchester City sign second most expensive central defender in history

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Manchester City have completed the signing of Josko Gvardiol, making the Croatia international the second most expensive centre-back ever.

City have paid RB Leipzig £77 million for the 21-year-old, who passed a medical at the Etihad Stadium on Friday, and he has signed a five-year contract.

The fee is just short of the world record for a defender, the £80 million Manchester United paid for Harry Maguire in 2019, and Gvardiol becomes City’s second summer signing, after his international teammate Mateo Kovacic.

Gvardiol believes he can improve under Pep Guardiola, who he called the world’s outstanding manager, after agreeing to join the treble winners.

Manchester City sign second most expensive central defender in history

Arsenal will need ‘unheard of’ points tally to win title – Mikel Arteta

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Mikel Arteta knows his Arsenal side will need a monumental points tally if they are to pip Manchester City to the Premier League title his season.

The two rivals meet in Sunday’s Community Shield, the Gunners taking part after they finished second to treble-winning City last year.

Arsenal led the way for much of the campaign but lost both home and away to Pep Guardiola’s men, who have now claimed five of the last six league crowns.

Arsenal will need ‘unheard of’ points tally to win title – Mikel Arteta

Barcelona landed one Man City star for free - now Pep Guardiola won’t allow another

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Pep Guardiola’s intended audience may have been in Barcelona. It often has been, though usually when he was their midfielder, captain or manager. In seven years in Manchester, Guardiola has frequently had to address matters at the Camp Nou, though it was usually only to deny that Lionel Messi was bound for the Etihad Stadium.

Now the subject of another saga is a player from his present, not the increasingly distant past. Manchester City’s summers seem to consist of two rituals: lifting the Premier League trophy and then enduring a wait to see if Bernardo Silva stays. The Portuguese’s most persistent admirers are in Catalonia. The other constant is that Barcelona repeatedly refuse to meet City’s asking price. Sometimes they receive no firm proposal while a cash-strapped club with a recruitment policy based on hoping their allure will encourage players to engineer their exit seemingly think they can acquire elite footballers on the cheap.

Barcelona landed one Man City star for free - now Pep Guardiola won’t allow another

Can Mikel Arteta become Pep Guardiola’s greatest nemesis – or merely the latest?

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It is a team from another time, a glimpse of Arsenal’s post-Arsene Wenger identity crisis and Mikel Arteta’s decidedly imperfect inheritance. There are David Luiz and Shkodran Mustafi, Dani Ceballos and Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Alexandre Lacazette and Nicolas Pepe. They assume a greater pertinence now, and not merely as signs of the transformation of a side in three years.

They remain the only Arteta side to beat Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, 2-0 in the 2020 FA Cup semi-final, courtesy of a brace from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Now, as Arteta’s current and former clubs prepare to meet at Wembley again, this time in the Community Shield, there is the probability that the Arsenal starting XI will feature no survivors of one of the manager’s first major wins. Perhaps Kieran Tierney but Granit Xhaka, the last regular in Arteta’s strongest side, was sold in the summer.

And while Emi Martinez left Arsenal and went on to lift the World Cup, few of the others have experienced better times since Arteta’s FA Cup win.

Can Mikel Arteta become Pep Guardiola’s greatest nemesis – or merely the latest?

Arsenal vs Man City: confirmed lineups

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And Arsenal’s team for Wembley includes three new signings: Kai Havertz, Declan Rice and Jurrien Timber.

ARS XI: Ramsdale, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Timber, Partey, Rice, Odegaard, Saka, Havertz, Martinelli.

Arsenal vs Man City: confirmed lineups

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Man City XI confirmed: Kyle Walker captains the team while both Erling Haaland and Julian Alvarez start up front.

MCI: Ortega Moreno, Walker (C), Stones, Dias, Akanji, Rodrigo, Kovacic, Bernardo, Grealish, Alvarez, Haaland

How to watch Arsenal vs Man City online and on TV today

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The first match of any season involving top-flight clubs is the Community Shield, and that’s exactly where we find ourselves once more ahead of the 2023/24 campaign.

Arsenal and Manchester City will meet at Wembley on Sunday to battle for the first, and most minor, piece of silverware of the year, with the Premier League winners and runners-up having both been head-to-head in the transfer market this summer as well as towards the back-end of last term.

It was Pep Guardiola and his side who were triumphant on the pitch, winning the treble including the league ahead of the Gunners, but Mikel Arteta has managed to convince Declan Rice to move to north London instead of the northwest after leaving West Ham where he was captain.

We’ll likely see both clubs at least in the mix for major honours much later on this season, but the first meeting could be a far more open affair with minutes on the pitch and honing of tactics more important than the trophy on offer.

Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the match.

What time is the Community Shield and how to Arsenal vs Man City today

Barcelona landed one Man City star for free - now Pep Guardiola won’t allow another

15:09 , Karl Matchett

Pep Guardiola’s intended audience may have been in Barcelona. It often has been, though usually when he was their midfielder, captain or manager. In seven years in Manchester, Guardiola has frequently had to address matters at the Camp Nou, though it was usually only to deny that Lionel Messi was bound for the Etihad Stadium.

Now the subject of another saga is a player from his present, not the increasingly distant past. Manchester City’s summers seem to consist of two rituals: lifting the Premier League trophy and then enduring a wait to see if Bernardo Silva stays. The Portuguese’s most persistent admirers are in Catalonia. The other constant is that Barcelona repeatedly refuse to meet City’s asking price. Sometimes they receive no firm proposal while a cash-strapped club with a recruitment policy based on hoping their allure will encourage players to engineer their exit seemingly think they can acquire elite footballers on the cheap.

Barcelona landed one Man City star for free - now Pep Guardiola won’t allow another

Can Mikel Arteta become Pep Guardiola’s greatest nemesis – or merely the latest?

15:08 , Karl Matchett

It is a team from another time, a glimpse of Arsenal’s post-Arsene Wenger identity crisis and Mikel Arteta’s decidedly imperfect inheritance. There are David Luiz and Shkodran Mustafi, Dani Ceballos and Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Alexandre Lacazette and Nicolas Pepe. They assume a greater pertinence now, and not merely as signs of the transformation of a side in three years.

They remain the only Arteta side to beat Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, 2-0 in the 2020 FA Cup semi-final, courtesy of a brace from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Now, as Arteta’s current and former clubs prepare to meet at Wembley again, this time in the Community Shield, there is the probability that the Arsenal starting XI will feature no survivors of one of the manager’s first major wins. Perhaps Kieran Tierney but Granit Xhaka, the last regular in Arteta’s strongest side, was sold in the summer.

And while Emi Martinez left Arsenal and went on to lift the World Cup, few of the others have experienced better times since Arteta’s FA Cup win.

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Can Mikel Arteta become Pep Guardiola’s greatest nemesis – or merely the latest?