Arsenal (A) | Community Shield | Post-match Thread

[citymad]

That they only played by default as won nothing to qualify for it

Good point.

 

[Bald fraud]

The only thing that bothers me from today is that Foden didn’t start. It’s giving bad vibes for the season ahead. Could be that I’m reading too much into it, but he’s an absolutely key player this season as far as I’m concerned.

Maybe it’s just because it was a friendly

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

Can’t lie I am disappointed by that loss. Mainly because I feel we could have really dealt a physcological blow to arsenal today by winning. Their celebrations reflect that and I have no problem with them tbh. They have finally beaten us and that will be used to galvanise them for the coming season. They will have a very similar season to last year imo.

From our perspective I don’t think it will really affect us tbh. I am slightly concerned with haaland (no goals in 6 now I believe). Have teams worked out a way to negate his threat? Guess time will tell. If he isn’t scoring he doesn’t really offer much else , his link up play is still pretty poor and I feel at times it It’s like we are playing with 10 men. Grealish as usual did the bare minimum (expect more than just keeping the ball and passing sideways from an 100m player) and I thought foden was an improvement on the left wing.

Mate, cheer up. These players just won the fucking treble. I'd say they're pretty good.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

We have not replaced 2 big players who scored goals. That’s my worry.

We don’t look ready for the season & we can’t afford to give the others too much

We are not stronger than last season we are weaker esp on the goal front but after a treble it’s what I expected.

Transitional season in my opinion

I’d say a transitional season(s) is when you make huge changes, we haven’t done that and are still early in our fitness due to a very, very long season that led to a Treble, including our first CL.

Today was nothing more than a friendly and although we wanted to win, certain things led to a loss.

We may go on to win something, we may go on to lose, just try to enjoy a Treble winning team trying to achieve such a magnificent achievement, on the trot.

 

[DMA's]

And for those complaining re added time. I was at chesterfield watching dorking wanderers yesterday and there was 7 mins added on first half 14 in the second half. The new time keeping is frankly pathetic.

 

[Bluewars]

They're really trying to Americanise football with this new stoppage time nonsense, anything for added drama, its ok for international tournaments but for league games where ref bias is so rife you can bet it'll be abused.

Thought Palmer's goal was worthy of winning the game, disappointing not to win it for the fans that travelled, Phil should have scored that chance, definitely needs to work on his finishing, missed a similar chance againts Inter.

Im sure we'll see a better performance in the super cup final, we move.

 

[come-on-barney]

Arsenal getting ridiculously giddy.

Why not early blow

 

[SebastianBlue]

What is our overall record in Charity Shields? I can genuinely only remember winning 2?

In the PL era we have won it 3 times (2012, 2018, 2019).

We have lost five times (2011, 2014, 2021, 2022, 2023).

Over the last 12 years, only one team that has won the Community Shield has gone on to win the league (us in 2018/19).

 

[schfc6]

This is going to sound abit silly.
But I can see this loss having a positive impact on the players going forward for the new season. They would have been still (and quite rightly) still in party mode from the treble.
Well now it’s time for the boys to wake up and this has hopefully lit a fire in the lads to go in and do it all again!!

Come on city!

Can’t argue that. It showed a couple of things, even at half cooked we controlled the game against a very giddy Arsenal side and fan base.
However the result will(if needed) spur us on. These lads don’t like leaving the field 2nd best.
It will have been a good work out as much mentally as physically..

The defence looks sharp and solid. Rodri, Kovacic and Bernardo looked ready. Foden looked excellent when he came on.

Not to call the lad at all, but in tight tense games, Alvarez isn’t ready to play the 10.

 

[give it to gordon]

Just watching us beat Chelsea last season. Surprised how much I missed because I was getting pissed celebrating lol