Community Shield - Arsenal (N) | Sun 6th Aug - 16:00

[citymad]

Ederson

Walker
Dias
Akanji

Stones
Rodri

Kovavic
Bernardo

Grealish
Foden
Haaland

We will slap Arsenal about like we always do. They are like a shiny new toy that we like to play around with.

2-0 to the treble winners.

This deserves more than a like.

 

[Bazzmand Show]

Hope we go strong and put these lot in their place and set our marker down with another trophy for the season ahead.

While I want to win, I don't put a lot of importance on this game. Last year Liverpool beat us, Nunez scored and Haaland didn't and everyone was flapping saying Nunez would score more and that Haaland would be a flop...

We know how all that turned out.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

A good fluid,75%intensity,work out.

Steady build up of fitness and rhythm.

60 minutes game time for the ‘A’s, 30 for the ‘B’s & 20 for KDB & Hannibal.

A really good performance and NO INJURIES

de Bruyne won’t be ready to play a few weeks yet, maybe Newcastle

Hannibal plays for United.

 

[Fordyboy46]

How do people know Stones is injured?

 

[FantasyIreland]

How do people know Stones is injured?

TH mentioned it as a training ground rumour from yesterday.

 

[Blue warrior]

Is Kev 100% out for this?

He’s not played a minute of preseason so I imagine we won’t see kev for a little while.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Really looking fw to this. Not like the lfc charity shield games where it feels like it's us against the media world.

I'd like to see a strong team with some of the younger talent playing a big part.

 

[Semper aggressus]

We always start slow and probably won’t even take this game that seriously, plus we haven’t finished our transfer business yet (hopefully!).

It‘ll be an Arsenal win and obviously Rice will get man of the match, followed by a communal media masturbation over how he’ll win the title for Arse this season and that we missed out.

Later in the season, when Arse struggle trying to get goals out of Jesus and Havertz, they’ll fade down to their usual third or fourth place and the media will quietly forget this game and pin their hopes on whoever is then second in the league to overhaul us.

 

[Lee the Blue]

Fully expect us to go in half arsed and Arsenal to go full tilt and win the game. There will then be a week of press articles about a "shift in power" etc etc. Saw this last year in the heady days when Darwin Nunez was apparently better than Haaland and Liverpool were going to win the league. Cut to Christmas and we will be 8 or more points north of Arsenal, and as usual all the Community Shield narratives will be laughed at once again.

Its a nice game to win but if you lose it, then it means absolutely nothing; Id much rather win at Burnley put it that way. Losing the Shield in 2011, 2021 and 2022 led to Premier League winning seasons.

 

[MarsLlama]

More weight to this than any previous Community Shield just because we're in an unprecedented amount of competitions this season. Only Barca and Bayern have ever won six in a season before.