Community Shield: Arsenal Battles Chelsea

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It is a tradition in the English Football for the winner of the Barclays Premier League and the FA Cup to play the Community Shiled before the beginning of a new season.

History is about to be made today as this two big clubs are gunning for the community shield, Arsenal Football Club will be challenging Chelsea Football Club to winning the shield at Wembley Stadium by 3:00pm today been August 2nd.

Stats.
  • Arsenal have failed to score past Chelsea in their last 5 attempts, a total of 482 minutes.
  • Arsenal have failed to win any of their last 8 meetings against Chelsea L5 D3.
  • The last time a side that won the Community Shield went on to win the league was back in 2010 (Man Utd).
  • Chelsea have won the Community (Charity) Shield on 4 occasions compared to 13 for Arsenal.
  • Five of the last 6 Community Shield matches have gone Over 2.5 goals, averaging 3.8 goals per match.
  • The FA Cup winners have only won one of the last five Community Shield matches – Arsenal last year.
Predicted Line Up

Predicted XI: Cech; Monreal, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Debuchy; Coquelin, Ramsey; Cazorla, Ozil, Oxlade-Chamberlain; Giroud.

Jose Mourinho is likely to start with a 4-2-3-1 leaving new signing Radamel Falcao on the bench.

Predicted XI: Courtois; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta; Oscar, Matic; Fabregas, Hazard, Moses; Costa.

Verdict

Who do you think will win?






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