Arsenal will face Manchester City in the Community Shield tomorrow as top-flight football returns and the Premier League follows next week.
Mikel Arteta’s men earned their place as the second team in the country last season after City won the league and FA Cup.
The Community Shield is sometimes considered just an extension of the pre-season preparations for both clubs.
However, some teams take it seriously and depending on who you ask, it is a big deal.
However, former striker Chris Sutton insists Mikel Arteta and Pep Guardiola will not consider it an important game.
He writes in the Daily Mail:
“Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta will be not getting too carried away with themselves if either walks away from Wembley with the trophy under their arm on Sunday.
“For them this game will be all about building match fitness and tinkering with formations and personnel ahead of the start of the season.
“Last year’s final between Liverpool and Manchester City proved you can never read too much into the result of the Community Shield.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
The Community Shield can set the tone for the rest of the season, but it is not such a big trophy and failing to win it does not mean much.
Adding it to our cabinet will be nice and defeating City could positively affect the confidence of our players, so we probably should think about winning the trophy.
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Winning the shield would have little to no impact on our season but finally beating Mcity would be a massive confidence boost.
Beating City is more important.
Just how i view it mate.
By evidence of all the
uncertainty regarding
comments it seems
Arteta has been
succesfull.
The ‘element of
surprise’ can play a
crucial factor on the
outcome of a ‘war’.
The lack of knowledge
about the plans &
strategy of your
adversory will reduce
your chance of victory
significantly, ceteris
paribus. Against
tactically & analatically
superior managers of
which Pep is the best
holding your cards to
your chest is
paramount.
‘
This unpredictabilaty
wrt our tactics &
formation has been
deliberately created iot
confuse opponents
imo. Imbedded deep
down into this cloud of
uncertainties &
confusion is an
organized, structured &
systematic art of war ie. CHAOS THEORY.
The only thing left now
is to see whether the
student has mastered
this art in order to
become a MASTER
himself. Can’t wait for
the fight!!
LET’S OUTFOX THE
FOX!!!
I call this the first of seven games, if we win this the other six games becomes easier to win mentally.
It would give us a kind of invincibility feeling going into those six games.
This is the kind of win that is good for our psyche, Arsenal are more settled and probably more motivated for this particular game given how the last campaign finished.
Pep is a master of looking forlorn about his team’s prospect only for them to deliver time and time again, but the gaffer can sneak in an early blow ahead of the new campaign with a tight victory.
Impact Definitely for Arenal but not for City .
City last season knew that they can beat us comfortably home and away .
That has to change .
6 points plus goal difference.
Meaning if that continues we have to get 7 points more than city in 36 games
Well said
Not factually correct Sunny. We have to get 1 point more or have a better goal difference if both teams finish level on points. What makes your theory flawed is that you assume City will beat all other teams we beat.
So even if we lose both games against them the possibility that we can pip them is still there if they win less games or have more draws.
Maybe you & others do not comprehend such a scenario but i do.
If we can hit last season’s form again this season then I feel we can win the league. Despite our late poor run, I still believe we were the best team in the league last season as we played better football than everyone including City.
The top 8 teams have considerably strengthened this season but if we somehow hit last season form, we can win most of our games and then hope other teams take points off City and Liverpool. Teams likes Spurs, Liverpool, Man U and a host of others seem to know the right tactics to take point off City. So let’s hope this happens alot this season and we just manage to hit that form but I’m still skeptical if we can going by our preseason matches and what we got with 200 million. I believe 90 points will be more than enough to win the EPL this season.
No, it won’t mean a thing. Great warm up but it will all begin for real against Nottingham Forest
One word. NO!!!
The game tells us nothing of what’s to come. We usually win this fixture, only to be dreadful in the league and in Europe.
It’s a trophy as far as I’m concerned. On the continent it’s called the Super Cup and is a big deal. Winning it breeds confidence moving forward.