2019 FA Community Shield

2019 FA Community Shield

Liverpool Manchester City 1 1
Manchester City won 5–4 on penalties Report
Date	4 August 2019
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Player 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 2019 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. As Manchester City won both competitions in 2019, their opponents were the 2018–19 Premier League runners-up, Liverpool.

It was contested at Wembley Stadium and Manchester City managed to defend the trophy, having also won the 2018 FA Community Shield.

Background

Main articles: 2018–19 Manchester City F.C. season & 2018–19 Liverpool F.C. season
During the 2018–19 season, both Liverpool and Manchester City were in a heated title race, as they were less than 3 points from each other in the table starting from the end of February, and they each also went unbeaten in their first 15 league matches. Despite leading at top of the table at Christmas with 9 points ahead of City, Liverpool finished second in the Premier League with 97 points, while Manchester City finished first with 98 points. Manchester City also won the 2018–19 FA Cup and the 2018–19 EFL Cup, beating Watford 6–0 in the former, and defeating Chelsea 4–3 in a penalty shoot-out after a 0–0 draw in the latter. The final of the EFL Cup was also a rematch of the previous year's FA Community Shield which Manchester City won 2–0 with both goals scored by Sergio Agüero. Manchester City qualified for the 2018 FA Community Shield by winning the 2017–18 Premier League with a record 100 points, the first of any English club in the top-flight since the introduction of the three points for a win rule.

In the 2018–19 season, both teams only met each other twice: both of which were in the league. At Anfield, Liverpool and Manchester City held a 0–0 draw, as City's Riyad Mahrez missed a crucial penalty shot that could've helped City win the game in the 84th minute. At the City of Manchester Stadium (also known as the Etihad Stadium for sponsorship reasons), the Reds lost 1–2, as Sadio Mané's 18th minute shot was ruled by VAR to be a "no goal", as it didn't cross the line. That game was Liverpool's only loss during the 2018–19 Premier League season.

This match isn't the first Super Cup that Liverpool's Jürgen Klopp and Manchester City's Pep Guardiola have played against each other in. 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 version of the FA Community Shield. Klopp won on both occasions, with scores of 4–2 and 2–0 respectively. However, both matches were also held in the Westfalenstadion, Dortmund's home stadium.

Match

Details

4 August 2018 (2018-08-04) 15:00 BST	Liverpool	1–1	Manchester City	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 77,565 Referee: Martin Atkinson (West Yorkshire)
	Matip  77'	Report	Sterling  12'
		Penalties
	Shaqiri Wijnaldum Lallana Oxlade-Chamberlain Salah	4–5	Gündoğan B. Silva Foden Zinchenko Gabriel Jesus

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'

Man of the Match: Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) Assistant referees: Sian Massey-Ellis (Birmingham) Dan Cook (Hampshire) Fourth official: Stuart Attwell (Birmingham) Reserve assistant referee: Neil Davies (London) Video assistant referee: Anthony Taylor (Cheshire) Assistant video assistant referee: Steve Child (London)

Match rules 90 minutes Penalty shoot-out if scores level Seven named substitutes Maximum of six substitutions

See also

• 2019–20 Premier League
• 2019–20 FA Cup

External links

• Match report at BBC.co.uk