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Live Click here to searchsearchSign upSport|FootballArsenal cruise to 3-0 win over Manchester City in Community ShieldPremier League champions hand new City boss Enzo Maresca a humbling defeat in his first football game in charge.
Mikel Arteta’s side used the annual curtain raiser to the English top-flight season as an opportunity to prove their long-awaited title triumph has done nothing to sate their appetite for success.
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The Gunners took just 24 seconds on Sunday to show new City boss Enzo Maresca the standard required to keep up with the champions.
O gol rápido de abertura de Riccardo Calafiori foi seguido por um cabeceio clínico de Kai Havertz antes do intervalo.
Arsenal overwhelmed sloppy City with their trademark intensity and Martin Odegaard netted after the interval to cap a resounding victory.
The game at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium also allowed Arteta to parade Arsenal’s close-season recruits.
The north Londoners will start a campaign as champions for the first time since the 2004-05 season.
Already installed as favourites to win their first successive English titles since the 1930s, Arsenal look primed for a sustained spell as the Premier League’s pre-eminent force.
Seu vibrante desempenho no Community Shield foi o aquecimento perfeito antes de o recém-promovido Coventry visitar o Emirates Stadium para o jogo de abertura da temporada da Premier League em 21 de agosto.
It was a dispiriting wake-up call for Maresca, who will have noted how much more dynamic and cohesive Arsenal looked compared to his spluttering team.
Pep Guardiola won 20 trophies in a glorious decade in Manchester, including the FA Cup and League Cup in his farewell season, but City have not won the title since 2024 and finished seven points behind Arsenal in second place last season.
Hand-picked to succeed Guardiola after quitting Chelsea in January following a turbulent reign lasting less than two seasons, Maresca now knows it will take a huge effort to close the gap on Arsenal, starting with City’s opener at home to Bournemouth on August 23.
Arteta believes his players are still “hungry” for trophies, with their painful Champions League final loss to Paris Saint-Germain on penalties in May providing motivation for this season.
Os Gunners levaram menos de um minuto para sublinhar o ponto de Arteta com um lindo gol bem trabalhado.
Myles Lewis-Skelly featured in Arsenal’s midfield despite being linked to Chelsea and Manchester United and the teenager showed why he is in demand with a deft pass that split the City defence.
Calafiori surged onto Lewis-Skelly’s ball, evading City’s woeful marking to slot a composed finish past Gianluigi Donnarumma from 12 yards.
The left-back’s goal was the quickest in the Community Shield since 1968 and rampant Arsenal struck again in the 27th minute.
Martin Odegaard was gifted space to float a cross to the far post and Tzolis, left unmarked by Abdukodir Khusanov, headed it back into the six-yard box, where Havertz climbed above Ruben Dias to nod home.
O talismã do City, Erling Haaland, foi em grande parte anônimo, desperdiçando duas boas chances no primeiro tempo.
Arsenal captain Odegaard showed his Norway teammate how to do it three minutes after half-time.
Tzolis rolled a pass into Odegaard’s path and he slalomed through the City defence before leaving Donnarumma embarrassed with a clever dummy and close-range finish.
Only City, in 2019, have gone on to become Premier League champions among the previous 15 winners of the Community Shield.
On the evidence of their stroll in the Cardiff sunshine, Arsenal’s 18th Community Shield victory will not be the last silverware lifted by Odegaard this season.
Odegaard disse que seu time havia mostrado "seu nível" hoje.
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