Arsenal overcome Chelsea and win their record 15th Community Shield with a 4-1 win on penalties!

Courtois & Morata miss the vital spot kicks as Arsenal see off Chelsea

2017 FA Community Shield Review

Date: 6th August 2017

FT Result: Arsenal (1-1) Chelsea

Victor Moses 46'

Kolasinac 82'

Pedro (Sent Off) 80'

Arsenal win 4-1 on penalties

Last Sunday saw a thrilling contest between the 2016/17 Premier League and FA Cup Champions. Chelsea and Arsenal both London clubs went back and forth as eventually Arsenal overcame their rivals and won their record 15^th Community Shield.

Both teams began with a strong starting Xi and similar 3-4-3 formations but the Chelsea bench had limited options compared to Arsenal. Former Gunner Cesc Fabregas started in the Chelsea midfield.

Key Events:

Nothing much happened in the first half with both teams going back and forth trying to find an opening. Arsenal captain Per Mertsacker suffered an injury and Arsene Wenger introduced his new signing Sead Kolasinac to the game.

Come the start of the second half, Chelsea struck with Victor Moses finding space via set play to give Chelsea the lead.

As the game was progressing, both managers began making substitutions, Arsenal with offensive changes and Chelsea with defensive ones. Unfortunately, Chelsea lacked defensive options on the bench.

In the 80^th minute, Chelsea winger Pedro committed a dangerous challenge on Arsenal’s Granit Xhaka for which he saw a straight red card and the whole momentum of the game began to shift in Arsenal’s favor.

The set piece following the foul was converted by new boy Kolasinac after Chelsea players had a serious lack of concentration. Arsenal started to look for the win but the match headed to penalties.

Chelsea’s second penalty was horribly missed by the goalkeeper of all people, Thibaut Courtois. Some thought that he was trying to shoot a goal kick after that miss.

Their 3^rd penalty was another disaster with Chelsea’s new Golden Boy Alvaro Morata squaring is ball way towards the bottom left corner and handing Arsenal the advantage.

Arsenal scored all their four penalties with Walcott, Monreal, Chamberlain and Olivier Giroud scoring the decisive kick to clinch Arsenal’s 9^th consecutive victory at Wembly and the 2017 Community Shield.