Arsenal 1-0 Chelsea: Community Shield – as it happened!
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain scored the only goal in a tame curtain-raiser
at Wembley, ensuring Arsène Wenger has beaten José Mourinho for the
first time in 14 attempts
There did not appear to be a handshake between the
two managers at the end, though let’s not read too much into that – it
is too early for controversy. What a pre-season for Arsenal
though – three trophies! Petr Cech celebrates in front of his new fans,
and then follows it up with plenty of embracing with his former and
current team-mates. “We suffered today, the pitch was not great,” Wenger
says on TV. “This is a good basis going into the Championship.” Arsenal were impressive – especially because they showed a steeliness that has too often been absent from their performances. Chelsea
will not be too bothered – they were lacking in attack but as we said a
few hours earlier, we will have pretty much forgotten about all of this
by Saturday afternoon when the real action begins. Still, how exciting that football is back. Thanks for reading and for your messages. Byeeeee!
90 min +3: And from that Cazorla sends a glorious
disguised pass forward to … Gibbs. His low side-footed effort (he should
have tried a chip) is saved by the feet of Courtois.
90 min +1: Arsenal appear to be killing the game
dead here. Cazorla has a free-kick 25 yards from goal. He hits it off
the wall and wins a corner, ticking down another few precious seconds.
It is taken short and Chelsea win the ball but are unable to break.
90 min: Matic sends a cross in from the left but
Falcao is penalised for leaping into Mertesacker, while Arteta is ground
after taking a blow when leaping too.
88 min: Gibbs takes down Matic. It’s a foul but
there’s some handbags after. Fàbregas, once more, delivers the dead ball
and Ivanovic heads over – he should have been offside, too, but there
was no sign of a flag.
86 min: Arsenal almost put it to bed with a rare
break. Giroud holds it up, playing in Ramsey. He picks out Cazorla to
his right. His effort is blocked, Ramsey’s rebound is deflected for a
corner. Cazorla takes it but he only has two red shirts to aim for in
the area and Chelsea are not troubled.
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