Bellerin stands firm and passes his first test. A free kick. Not here at all this time: Dani Ceballos, Nicolas Pepe and Alexandre Lacazette.

77 min: Liverpool are applying pressure, Arsenal beginning to tire. Van Dijk sticks out a boot and guides the ball across Martinez and into the bottom corner. First published on Sat 29 Aug 2020 15.30 BST. 11 min: Liverpool have enjoyed 60 percent of possession so far. 14 min: That goal came very much against the run of play, and Liverpool look a little stunned. Brewster, on with seconds remaining, twangs his effort off the top of the bar. 31 min: Liverpool try to raise the tempo. 30 min: Milner sends a couple of crosses in from the left. Jurgen Klopp’s verdict. Liverpool: Alisson, Williams, Gomez, van Dijk, Robertson, Fabinho, Milner, Wijnaldum, Mane, Salah, Firmino.Subs: Adrian, Keita, Grujic, Jones, Minamino, Tsimikas, Brewster, Elliott, Koumetio. The two teams met in this fixture for a third and final time in 2002. Aubameyang whips into the top right, and the FA Cup winners have beaten the Premier League champions!

Big games, big moments, big players ... Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was magnificent!” And his new contract? The FA Cup winners edged the champions on penalties after an entertaining encounter at Wembley, Sat 29 Aug 2020 19.04 BST But the momentum has almost totally flipped. 1 week ago 596 4 0. Arsenal 1-1 Liverpool (5-4 pens): 2020 Community Shield – as it happened. “I feel very good. 81 min: Robertson digs out a cross from the left. Arsenal: Martinez, Bellerin, Luiz, Holding, Tierney, Maitland-Niles, Elneny, Xhaka, Saka, Nketiah, Aubameyang.Subs: Leno, Cedric, Saliba, Kolasinac, Olayinka, Willock, Nelson, Smith Rowe, John-Jules. Mane breezes down the left and clips back for Robertson, haring down the inside-left channel. Congratulations to Arsenal. “It’s always good to be back at Wembley. Alisson went the right way this time, but had no chance. He doesn’t drop this one, even though Bellerin sends a huge spray of champagne straight into his face as he lifts it skyward! Tierney enjoyed that, a tacit admission that he might not have meant to do exactly what he did. Williams takes up possession on the right and curls onto Milner’s head. Just the national anthem, pennant swap and coin toss to get out of the way. Meanwhile Liverpool send on Jones for Firmino. But I saw the Arsenal line-up and it looks good.”. You cannot defend a title when it’s an open race for everybody. 16 min: Hats off to Saka for the crossfield ball that set Aubameyang on his way. He’ll need picking up tonight. Arsenal are defending with great resilience. 19 min: Saka isn’t perfect, mind, and he loops the resulting corner into Alisson’s arms. A real discovery. (They used to share back in the day, kids.) The boys look good. We’re going to penalties! Penalties: Arsenal 2-2 Liverpool. Fabinho, who had a record of 17 penalties out of 17 with Monaco, skelps into the bottom left. This one came off the back of the Michael Thomas game, and Arsenal could be forgiven for not giving a solitary shiny one as Peter Beardsley scored the only goal of the game. Here’s what happened the last time these two met. That was a big opportunity to win this for Arsenal! “We had to play against a low block and a counter-attacking threat. Penalties: Arsenal 1-1 Liverpool. 90 min +2: Brewster comes on for Wijnaldum. Having won the double the previous season, they showed no signs of letting up, enjoying 56% possession and getting nine shots on target to Liverpool’s measly one. It’s Arsenal who are looking more likely at the moment. All rights reserved. Penalties: Arsenal 2-2 Liverpool. Nketiah drops a shoulder and, in looking for the top right, lashes well over the bar. But the keeper backtracks well and claims. Alisson sent the wrong way for the third time. Mane chests it down but takes a heavy touch when one on one with Martinez, and their second duel ends in another win for the keeper. 7 min: Robertson curls it in. But he sends a very presentable chance wide left. The FA Cup winners edged the champions on penalties after an entertaining encounter at Wembley, Sat 29 Aug 2020 19.04 BST He looks for Aubameyang at the near post. But it is what it is, and we’re going to put out the strongest team possible. 89 min: Willock makes a couple of dangerous runs down the left. Today it was not enough.”, Mikel Arteta speaks! The ball’s slipped wide right for Saka, who nearly gets a second assist, advancing down the flank then cutting back for Nketiah, who doesn’t have to break stride as he sidefoots powerfully towards the bottom right. Aubameyang drives at Williams down the left. 90 min +1: Mane curls right to left for Robertson, who wins a header but slaps it over from six yards. “That Arsenal shirt looks like the kitman left his red pen in a track suit pocket while loading the last wash. Nobody is buying his Marble Halls malarkey,” writes iconoclastic architecture critic A dejected Brewster scrunches his eyes and looks to the heavens. We have some really nice memories of this stadium. This match is good fun. But we don’t have a guarantee that it will work out, so why worry about that now? They fought so hard for this, refusing to buckle under some late Liverpool pressure. A little brush between Bellerin and Mane, the latter going over, but he’s not getting a penalty for that. Firmino spins and looks to shoot. Arsenal meanwhile are left to celebrate wildly. Liverpool got a little payback again ten years later, as the teams met for the second time in the Charity Shield. The FA Cup winners edged the champions on penalties after an entertaining encounter at Wembley . But we should have created more because we had the ball quite a lot. 82 min: A triple change for Arsenal: Tierney, Saka and Nketiah are replaced by Kolasinac, Willock and Nelson. Both teams had their eye on it ... and we were served up some highly decent early-season entertainment as a result!

It might have hit a hand in the middle of a tangle of limbs ... but it belonged to Cedric. A draw seems about right.

A very impressive performance, seeing they’ve just had five days of pre-season training, while Liverpool are a couple of weeks in. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 1 min: Liverpool are immediately on the front foot, Mane shaking and shimmying at Bellerin down the left. But not before a knee of solidarity and love is taken. It’s the traditional curtain-raiser between champions and FA Cup winners that doesn’t really mean that much ... but neither side will be turning up their nose at silverware either.

Penalties: Arsenal 3-2 Liverpool. We sustained it in the second half. It’s on! 3 min: Liverpool are further into their pre-season, and it’s showing in these very early exchanges.