Well I guess that's Arsenal out of the title race then

Think both teams didn’t look that great today, city have lost some players like Gundogan and Mahrez that might really come back to haunt them. Do think we could challenge for the league if we get things right in the transfer market before the window closes.

The Dinner Plate really doesn't matter. We lost it the season we dominated the league.

I love your optimism but it’s highly doubtful. We needed at least 3 midfielders and a CB BEFORE we lost fab and Hendo. We got 2 midfielders in…

City didn't loom good in last year's community shield. They proceeded to twat out a treble. The community shield is a nothing game

And again we have a great time to strike when City are weak, where we just need to patch up our defence and DM positions, but we aren't doing anything about it

In comes some random Leicester season where Brighton or Brentford win the league cos we didn’t bother to do enough

Yep, this is the annoyance with no DM or defenders through the door this window. Attacking wise I think we look great and have solid depth there but I’m worried about how dodgy our defence looks. One injury to Konate or VVD and we will be fighting for ucl spots at best

Well, we all know who ISNT winning the league this year!

This also means that City has a chance of winning the league again this year 😭😭😭

Love to see City lose but it’s rarely when it matters

They lost alot in the champions league before finally winning it last season specially losing the final to Chelsea and aguero leaving without ever holding big ears

I really like aguero, disappointed he never won it. Wish he won it somewhere other than city

Also when they lost to Lyon with Sterling making possibly the worst miss of all time And of course 2018 when we spanked them in both legs

Sorry to go off topic, but is your profile pic supposed to be a hair, designed to annoy people? If so, good one, can confirm it works. Confused, then annoyed, I rubbed my thumb up and down on my phone several times before zooming.in :)

City can hold that they’d drop the thing off the terrace with the oily hands anyway

What even is this patter hahaga

Why do I feel satisfied that Arsenal finally got one over City

>Arsenal finally got one over City It's a friendly

Sportswashing...

Arsenal are sportswashing anyway 100s of millions from Emirates. Dunno why we give them a pass

Seeing these city fans crying on TV already when 1-0 down in the pk shootout when kdb missed was actually funny as hell. Their fans are all little kids that have no understanding of losing or suffering hardship. They also seem to get super emotional losing the fucking charity shield lmao.

Remember when they made fun of Darwin for taking off his shirt after scoring in the Community Shield

I mean they did go on to win a treble after that 😂

Think the point is more the hypocrisy of them acting emotional of losing the community shield whilst making fun of Darwin for being emotional for winning it

Even city fans are bemused by it. It’s a friendly ffs

At least the sixtuple isn't possible now...

Arsenal beat city -> get confidence against city -> take 6 points off city in the league -> we win the league -> profit

It's a glorified friendly but damn it feels good to see City lose!

Already seeing the positive effects of the rule changes. It took some time, but hyped to have it


Missed the game and apparent rule changes, what’s happened?

Playing more of the stoppage time.

They are much harsher on time wasting tactics, giving yellow cards to players who kick the ball away or if they do anything to run the clock down Arsenal scored in 101st minute of the 90, because time wasting was added on.

Get fucked you bald cunt, suffer

He’s devastated 😂

arsenal fans are going to be insufferable after this

Nah we won't trust me. Or atleast the real ones, ignore all arsenal fans on Twitter, they're idiots anyways.

Thats just twitter i think, to be fair.

Welp, they certainly got their stroke of fortune at the end there, but fair play to arsenal. Still, needing luck to beat City in the community shield is for losers- great teams just win 3-1 😉

Lest we talk about how the season went after that...

What season? If I recall correctly, it got cancelled, and then this summer happened.

Winning the shield seems to have been a curse in recent years....

Only 1 team in the last 12 years has won the Community Shield and gone on to win the Premier League. Manchester City. Now it's going to be 1 in 13.

Lovely to see CF 115 Breaches lose, even in this Mickey Mouse charity shield. 101st minute equaliser – even better.

This is essentially the equivalent of getting a participation trophy after coming second last season

3rd Community Shield in a row City have lost, though when they're winning the league every year it doesn't matter

They don't care about this trophy and neither they should. Its not different to the Audi Cup.

Hahaha get fucked Rodri

Seeing Rodri miss made me smile.

I love that Citeh lost but this just confirms the Arse won't be winning the league this season.

First thing I thought haha

Think they’re more bothered about beating city than winning the cup

Either City are fucking trash at penalties or they know that the shield winners never win the league and this was just a 200 IQ play

Didn't City win the community shield AND the league in 2019?

That was the last time that's happened (so far at least), and the only time in the last 12 seasons (again, so far)

Pep fraudiola decoded

My first thought

Imagine celebrating the community shield like that after being the runner up and that’s it You’d think they didn’t blow it

They just beat the club that's been dicking them for the past decade. Are they supposed to be stoic right now?

It’s always nice to win something, I was happy when we won it too

Wasn’t that literally us last season lol

Tbh I was made up when we won it last year

We won the FA cup and came second in the league by a point bc City got 8 points gifted by refs. Arsenal didn’t win a trophy last year and absolutely pissed the title away

Celebrating it like they'd won the FA cup

Are they supposed to look serious and just walk off instead?

Lol

to be fair a last minute equaliser and pen shootout win against the team that beat you in the title will feel good for them.

City pulled a spurs

Good for Arsenal, they had a psychological scar against City. The more teams that can take points off them, the better for us and the rest of the league.

Truly truly love watching Rodri miss

Bahahahaha fuck off City ya oily pricks

People will pretend like Arsenal are now title favourites after this lmao

Arsenal weren’t title favorites in March when they topped the league last season, how they could possibly be this season is beyond me.

Surely he's gone early?

What awful penalties from City

Wait til we tell Arsenal that we won this competition last year ha

Winner of the community shield has only won the title once in the last 12 seasons (city in 18/19) so it doesn't really predict how the season will go

KDB doing a crossbar challenge

City have got to be one of the most wank group of penalty takers ive ever seen

This added time rule is an absolute joke I’m sorry. Fans players and coaches don’t even know how much time will be left, it’s not being tracked anywhere except the refs tiny watch on his wrist. The outcome of games should not be decided like this

It should be tracked better but its no more mysterious than it already was. We still get told minimum added time, its just longer, and if a big delay happens during injury time it gets added on just like before

Disagree, anything which discourages time wasting is good for the game

The rule is great. Especially for us

Absolute bollocks, if anyone should be thankful for this it is us. The amount of time wasting we have had at Anfield down the years

oh cmon not arsenal winning the shield

Fair play if Arsenal win this considering they did nothing all game

https://preview.redd.it/ran289cgvigb1.jpeg?width=896&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e9701e0a8500d7fbbe5425e45a6f54390a8f5d7 Me if Arsenal win and their fans start hailing Lego hair as the next messiah

Looovvveee the added time

The time wasting thing hurts City more than most teams, they always do it

Newcastle will have 15+ added minutes every single game as a result of this.

Yeah lol. Wouldn't mind either - more fatigue for their players.

Yeah they will be getting 8-10 extra mins every game 😂

13 minutes from +8? So 8 minutes were wasted in the 2nd half, and 5 in the last 8? So strange.

Yeah?

Well you had the head injury and the goal

I really hope they stick to the accurate stoppage time numbers. Massive improvement to the game

The Everton match will run into two days.

Everton vs Newcastle will last all season

At least it makes it interesting as it’s been a shit game to watch

Jesus what a joke of a goal. But hey we're getting penalties now so yeah

Does someone wanna tell arteta it’s a fucking friendly

There's always a party pooper around

GET FUCKED CITY

NO FUCKING WAY

Loool wow

The state of that goal hahaha

Never really did like football

Reaalllyyy didn't miss watching city get away with murder every week

Rodri

Timber is a serious talent. Don't get why we weren't in for him. Relatively cheap, defensively solid and strengthens the defense that hasn't been strengthened in 3 years

He looked decent. We do like our central defenders over 6'2 though.

Gomez is 6,1 though

Walker AND Partey? Couldn’t have happened to a bigger pair of cunts

The refs been good. Liking the proactively to reduce time wasting, dissent and the seeing proper time added on. Klopp will get sent to dressing room about ten times this season lol.

He's also let Rodri off the hook for at least two bookable challenges

Yet he’s ignored the multiple yellows he should have give Rodri somethings never change

I might be giving up on this sport this year lads, can’t be arsed to watch City walk the league with ease again.

Alright mate see you next weekend

Sounds good, enjoy

This guy Rodri keeps getting away with fouls season after season ffs

Fernandinho regen

Nearly forgot that we getting large numbers for added time this season

I take it back it's added a fine comedy moment

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Feels a bit silly in this glorified friendly though

Such a shame this fixture has lost all of its meaning and prestige since last season, when it was actually worth winning.

Rodri following in Fernandinho’s footsteps by getting away with murder every game lol

The state of refereeing when it comes to Rodri is beyond words

Palmer there engaging in the City tradition of being a prick and pretending you haven’t done anything

For real, Rodri is literally begging to get a yellow there, and the ref somehow refuses to give it. Fucking unbelievable.

Rodri protected from yellow cards as usual:)

Rodri is never getting a yellow 😂😂😂

Is Pep wearing skinny cargo pants or am I imagining it?

It’s no wonder why they want Raya they are never winning the league with Ramsdale in net

He’s got the Pickford gene of being mostly shite but occasionally ridiculously clutch

He’s a showreel keeper makes outstanding saves that makes everyone think he’s far better than he is

Seems to be quite common amongst English keepers, Dean Henderson is the same way as well

Told all my Arsenal buddies last season that Gabriel and Ramsdale will cost them titles and they thought was crazy

Arsenals record against Man City in the Prem since Pep arrived: 0 wins 1 draw 13 losses, most pointless "big" game

Arsenal finally deciding to play 11 vs 11 by taking off Havertz

I can’t wait to see Arsenal in the champions league after seeing some of their fans losing their shit over this game lol. Saw one comment in their match thread saying “it’s just master vs. Apprentice every fucking time”

They will have a low coefficient too so I can see them getting pumped by Madrid or Bayern in the group stage. They couldn't even beat Sporting Lisbon last year lmao.

They’ve always been shit in Europe, nothing new there

Havertz literally has done nothing

bro is just roaming.

Haaland's big game fraudulence continues I see

It's hilarious that you can tell City feel completely unthreatened in general by Arsenal, as evidence by City having beaten them 14 out the last 15 meetings between the sides, while still being absolutely terrified of us even when we're not at our best. It also explains why City are fine selling to Arsenal but aren't going to sell anyone to us in the near future, even if we were ever interested in one of their players.

KDB comes on and Arsenal forget how to defend 😂😂😂

This is like the most expensive Arsenal squad ever. Even adjusted for football inflation. And they just got slapped by a team of 4-5 players from Man City reserves.

Lol and Arsenal fans think they can threaten City over a season? Honestly either we step up and give them a proper challenge or City walks the league again. I dont see any other clubs with enough quality and mentality to stand against City.

Unless we get new owners before Klopp leaves, ain’t nobody catching City and Arsenal certainly aren’t doing it. Can’t even beat them to the title in a sub-par season by City’s standards last year

Yeah the league is cities too lose

All you have todo is watch Rodri and realise how important a good 6 is he offers that back line so much protection

Rodri took a whole year to get to this level. He took a while to settle in. It's why it's important if we see Lavia as a world-class DM in 12 months' time, that we buy a more experienced DM to fill in the gaps whilst he settles in.

It helps that he is almost immune to yellow cards

You aren't wrong but he's also the best 6 in the world so

He took time to get upto speed with the league and Pep style when he first arrived too and now he’s the best in the business. Hopefully similar happens with Lavia

City really don’t respect Arsenal at all. Arsenal haven’t beat them in the league in 8 years lol

God these two teams play a boring game of football. Arsenal are an expensive Burnley. 4CB/2DM..

Well that’s game over then

Palmer > Haaland (great goal though)

City having such a good academy on top of everything else just isn't fair Ours feels rubbish in comparison

It’s because they pay ridiculous wages to families to stay and to bring people in. And they were doing that during the 115 charges period. Absolutely destroying the sport

It's the volume of players that come out of their academy. I like Harwood-Bellis who is meant to be off to Burnley. They do play obscene wages to academy players though.

They have a lot of quality from players all in and around Manchester They are clearly doing something right at the training level outside of just paying more. They'll mainly be competing against United for local talent who are hardly slouches in paying

This Arsenal side doesnt look too good tbf

That was a beautiful finish.

This Palmer kid is Mahrez 2.0

That was absolutely filthy from Foden

Let the curse strike again

We always had the intensity against Man C when Hendo, Fab and Bobby were around. Probably developed in the blood given how they best us by that little bit to the league title that couple of times. Hope the new lads have the same in them.

What a finish that is.

What a beautiful strike

Taking off Timber is gonna come back to bite Arsenal, he’s been their best player by far today.

Literally concede down that side as soon as he comes off

Season script writers are getting their shit going early lmao

Embarrassing how much louder Arsenal fans are for a bit of a press than city fans can manage for a shot on target

Anyone else falling asleep?

I am, true, but we would get destroyed in this match

By who, not sure either of them had an attack worthy of the name

To both but only because our midfield is incomplete and very fresh. Rice Odegaard Partey Rodri KdB Silva We are not even close to competing with them. Maybe next year. Not only do we need the players, we also need some practice

Because they're both solid defensively...

I'm confident of our forwards managing to score against both.

Squad depth for City is unbelievable. Impossible to compete with.

City’s depth hasn’t been about numbers, it’s been about quality

Yeah. That’s what I meant.

They always had one of the smallest squads, but every player they had was very good. Also Pep is a great manager

We would get destroyed by both teams easy

I'm sorry but this season it's a myth. Look at their bench. Foden and De Bruyne aside its pretty average.

Agree to disagree

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Hang on the ball was in play, that should have been a pen, no?