Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal FC has started the European football season on the right foot, after achieving a last-minute reaction that led him to defeat Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City on penalties (1-4) to lift the Community Shieldtheir first title of this season in which they are expected to be Premier League contenders again.
As expected from a first game of the season, the result remained goalless until minute 77′ when rookie Cole Palmer hit a shot from the edge of the box that was impossible for goalkeeper Aaron Ramdale to save, and that also served to put the ‘Citizens’ forward.
The result remained 1-0 until minute 90+11′, but when everything seemed to indicate that Manchester City was going to continue with the hegemony that it achieved last year, fortune smiled on Arsenal, who managed to tie after the last shot of the match made by Leandro Trossard, deflected after hitting Manuel Akanji and ended up inside the goal.
Already in the penalty shootout, luck continued to favor the ‘Gunners’ who managed to score all their turns with Martin Odergaard, Leandro Trossard, Bukayo Saka and Fabio Vieira, who was the author of the title goal.
But not only the kickers were protagonists, since goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale saved the shot of the ‘Sky Blues’ third kicker, Rodri. Before that, Bernardo Silva had scored, but Kevin De Bruyne had started the shoot-out by smashing the ball into the top crossbar.
The curious thing about this conquest is that the last time Arsenal won the Community Shield was in 2014, back then the captain was Mikel Artetathe same one who is now its technical director and polar in the revival of this historic club.
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