The FA Community Shield 2023-Arsenal vs Manchester City Preview:.
Treble winners Manchester City take on Premier League runners-up Arsenal in the 2023-24 curtain-raiser at Wembley Stadium on Sunday. Here, we preview the game.
Manchester City are favourites to win this game, with the Premier league Champions having 54.6% chance of victory, compared to 21.8% for Arsenal.
This will be the third Community Shield meeting between Manchester City and Arsenal; Arsenal have won the previous two – 4-0 at Highbury in 1934 and 3-0 at Wembley Stadium in 2014.
Arsenal have lost just two of their last 15 games at Wembley in all competitions (W9 D4), with both of those defeats coming in February 2018 (against Spurs in the Premier League and Manchester City in the League Cup final).
Arsenal vs Manchester City Head-to-Head
City have beaten Arsenal three times in 2023 already and will come into this game confident of making it four in a row. They then face each other again in October in the league when, if City win at Wembley on Sunday, they could potentially be going for five calendar-year victories over Arsenal.
City ended last season in exceptional form, storming past Arsenal at the top of the Premier League, while also winning the FA Cup and Champions League finals against Manchester United and Inter Milan, respectively. They looked completely unstoppable in the latter stages of 2022-23, and proved to be incredible at dealing with high-pressure situations. The Community Shield will not be giving them any nightmares at all.
Arsenal fell away at the end of the season as William Saliba’s injury derailed their title challenge, suffering disappointing defeats to Brighton and Nottingham Forest, although there were still plenty of positives, including the win at Newcastle and the final-day thrashing of Wolves.
Both teams will be off their best in their first competitive fixture of the season, and their form from the end of last season may well count for nothing.
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