2019 FA Community Shield

2019 FA Community Shield
	The match programme cover
	Manchester City won 5–4 on penalties
Date	4 August 2019
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Man of the Match	Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City)
Referee	Martin Atkinson (West Yorkshire)
Attendance	77,565
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The 2019 FA Community Shield (also known as The FA Community Shield supported by McDonald's for sponsorship reasons) was the 97th FA Community Shield, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's Premier League and FA Cup.^[4] As Manchester City won both competitions in 2019, their opponents were the 2018–19 Premier League runners-up, Liverpool.^[5]^[6]

The match was played at Wembley Stadium on 4 August 2019. Manchester City defended the trophy they won in 2018, winning 5–4 on penalties.^[7]^[8]

Background

In the 2018–19 season, Liverpool and Manchester City were in a heated title race, each going unbeaten in their first 15 league matches, and never more than three points apart in the table after the end of February.^[9] Despite being nine points behind Liverpool at Christmas, Manchester City won the league with 98 points, a point ahead of Liverpool.^[10] Manchester City also won the 2018–19 FA Cup and the 2018–19 EFL Cup, beating Watford 6–0 in the former,^[11] and defeating Chelsea 4–3 in a penalty shoot-out after a 0–0 draw in 2019 EFL Cup Final.^[12]

During 2018–19 the two teams only met in the league, playing out a goalless draw at Anfield on 24 October, as City's Riyad Mahrez missed a crucial penalty kick in the 84th minute,^[13] before Manchester City won 2–1 at the City of Manchester Stadium on 3 January, with goals from Sergio Agüero and Leroy Sané for City either side of Roberto Firmino's effort for Liverpool.^[14] That game was Liverpool's only loss during the 2018–19 Premier League season.

This is the third super cup in which Liverpool's Jürgen Klopp and Manchester City's Pep Guardiola have faced each other. While they were each managing Der Klassiker rivals Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich respectively, they played against each other in the 2013 and 2014 DFL-Supercups, the German equivalent of the Community Shield. Klopp's side won on both occasions, with scores of 4–2 and 2–0 respectively.^[15]^[16] Both matches were played at Westfalenstadion, Dortmund's home stadium.

Manchester City wore a commemorative kit with no sponsor for the match, marking their 125th anniversary season.^[17]

Match

Summary

Manchester City took the lead after 12 minutes when Kevin De Bruyne knocked the ball into the penalty area from the left to David Silva who flicked it to Raheem Sterling who scored from six yards out, hitting the ball with his left foot under Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson who almost managed to keep it out of the net. In the second half Virgil van Dijk had a shot from close range on the turn which came back off the underside of the bar and bounced out to safety. Liverpool equalized in the 77th minute when Joël Matip scored with a header from three yards out after a cross from the left by Virgil van Dijk.^[18] Mohamed Salah had a late chance to win the game but his initial shot was saved by Claudio Bravo with Salah following up with a header which was hooked off the line by Kyle Walker. The match went to a penalty shoot-out with Georginio Wijnaldum the only player to miss, Claudio Bravo saving to his right. Gabriel Jesus scored the winning penalty shooting to the left past Alisson to decide the match.^[19]

Details

4 August 2019

15:00 BST

Liverpool	1–1	Manchester City
Matip 77'	Report	Sterling 12'
Penalties
Shaqiri Wijnaldum Lallana Oxlade-Chamberlain Salah	4–5	Gündoğan B. Silva Foden Zinchenko Gabriel Jesus

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 77,565^[3]

Referee: Martin Atkinson (West Yorkshire)

Liverpool

Manchester City


GK	1	Alisson
RB	66	Trent Alexander-Arnold	67'
CB	12	Joe Gomez
CB	4	Virgil van Dijk
LB	26	Andrew Robertson
CM	14	Jordan Henderson (c)	79'
CM	3	Fabinho	67'
CM	5	Georginio Wijnaldum
RF	11	Mohamed Salah
CF	9	Roberto Firmino	79'
LF	27	Divock Origi	79'
Substitutes:
GK	22	Simon Mignolet
DF	6	Dejan Lovren
DF	32	Joël Matip	67'
MF	8	Naby Keïta	67'
MF	15	Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain	79'
MF	20	Adam Lallana	79'
MF	23	Xherdan Shaqiri	79'
Manager:
Jürgen Klopp


GK	1	Claudio Bravo
RB	2	Kyle Walker
CB	5	John Stones
CB	30	Nicolás Otamendi
LB	11	Oleksandr Zinchenko
CM	17	Kevin De Bruyne	33'	89'
CM	16	Rodri
CM	21	David Silva (c)		61'
RF	20	Bernardo Silva
CF	7	Raheem Sterling
LF	19	Leroy Sané		13'
Substitutes:
GK	31	Ederson
DF	12	Angeliño
DF	50	Eric García
MF	8	İlkay Gündoğan		61'
MF	47	Phil Foden		89'
FW	9	Gabriel Jesus		13'
FW	10	Sergio Agüero
Manager:
Pep Guardiola			42'