Arsenal vs Manchester City Community Shield 2023 live updates: Arteta's side win penalty shootout after De Bruyne, Rodri miss from spot

The Community Shield is always a game for the calendar - the official opening of elite action in England’s men’s game. This time around it’s treble-winners Manchester City and last season’s Premier League runners-up Arsenal who meet at Wembley, fighting for the first prize of the new campaign.

Mikel Arteta has added the likes of Declan Rice and Kai Havertz to his squad this summer, while Mateo Kovacic has traded Chelsea for Man City as a replacement for Ilkay Gundogan.

While not usually a match which foretells the fortunes of the season ahead, it’s still an intriguing opportunity to see where these respective squads are ahead of the opening game of the 2023/24 league next term. Follow live updates from the Community Shield at Wembley below:

Community Shield - LIVE
Arsenal vs Man City - 4pm KO live on ITV

ARS XI: Ramsdale, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Timber, Partey, Rice, Odegaard, Saka, Havertz, Martinelli.

MCI: Ortega Moreno, Walker, Stones, Dias, Akanji, Rodrigo, Kovacic, Bernardo, Grealish, Alvarez, Haaland

Goal! 76’ - Palmer curls a brilliant top-corner strike to put City ahead (0-1)

Goal! 90+11’ - Trossard’s shot takes a double deflection and rolls in for a late equaliser (1-1)

Arsenal 1-1 Man City - PENS
18:14 , Karl Matchett

Fabio Vieira for Arsenal...SCORES!

Top-corner finish and Arsenal win the Community Shield! 4-2 on penalties.

Arsenal 1-1 Man City - PENS
18:14 , Karl Matchett

Rodri steps up....SAVED by Ramsdale!

Terrible penalty in truth and easily saved by the keeper. Now it’s going be Vieira to win it!

Arsenal 1-1 Man City - PENS
18:13 , Karl Matchett

Up steps Bernardo Silva ...scores! Nicely tucked away. 2-2.

Next is Saka...scuffed, but in! 3-2 to Arsenal after three each.

Arsenal 1-1 Man City - PENS
18:12 , Karl Matchett

Leandro Trossard steps up for the Gunners, having had that final shot which took two deflections and ultimately ended in the net. From the penalty spot...SCORES!

Rolled into the bottom right corner. 2-1 to Arsenal.

Arsenal 1-1 Man City - PENS
18:11 , Karl Matchett

Kevin de Bruyne steps up....AND HITS THE BAR!! Absolutely belted it down the middle, slightly left, smacked the woodwork.

0-1 after one each.

Arsenal 1-1 Man City - PENS
18:10 , Karl Matchett

Arsenal’s first is in fact Martin Odegaard, up vs Ortega...GOAL! To the left, low, in. 1-0.

Arsenal 1-1 Man City - PENS: 0-0
18:09 , Karl Matchett

Right, we’ll be taking the shootout at the Arsenal fans’ end.

Here we go! Emile Smith Rowe will be first up

FT - Arsenal 1-1 Man City
18:07 , Karl Matchett

And that was about the last action of the game - we’ll go now to a penalty shoot-out to decide the winner! Full time at Wembley, 1-1.

GOAL! 90+11’ - Arsenal 1-1 Man City
18:03 , Karl Matchett

GOAL!

Absurd ending to the game! The corner is weak and cleared by the first man, it bounces out to Trossard who chops onto his left foot, shoots straight into one defender, it bounces sideways onto Akanji’s knee, deflects the complete opposite direction and rolls past Ortega into the net!

90+10’ - Arsenal 0-1 Man City
18:02 , Karl Matchett

Into and past 100 minutes. City fans whistling, wanting the result and the shield; Arsenal totally unable to create anything of note. Saka wastes the best chance with an overhit pass wide and that’s going to be just about that.

One final corner gets the Gunners’ faithful to their feet.

90+8’ - Arsenal 0-1 Man City
17:59 , Karl Matchett

Back underway finally after about another three minutes or so stoppage. Can Arsenal raise the tempo enough for a chance or two on goal?

A fair few fans have departed now from both camps but we’ve probably got another few minutes to play. Added time to added time and all that.

90’+4 - Arsenal 0-1 Man City
17:55 , Karl Matchett

Referee Stuart Attwell must be able to see into the future. Walker and Thomas clash heads on an aerial duel and both go down needing attention. Clearly, this is where the eight minutes added on were always intended to come from.

Arsenal’s other players regroup for a last-minute chat with Arteta but they’ve looked like making precious little happen in this half.

89’ - Arsenal 0-1 Man City
17:52 , Karl Matchett

Fair to suggest the Gunners missed their best moments of the match to score in the first half. They look tired and a bit ragged now - Ramsdale almost gifts De Bruyne a shooting chance with a poor pass out.

Rodri manages to escape almost as obvious a yellow card as Havertz earned in the first half for a pull-back.

We’re going to have...Eight minutes added on?! Arsenal fans happy at the time for a comeback but mostly, people here at Wembley are merely bemused. We’ve had no injuries since Odegaard’s early in the half and a normal amount of subs.

86’ - Arsenal 0-1 Man City
17:48 , Karl Matchett

Into the final five minutes of the game and City lead. A reminder that if the Gunners equalise and it ends a draw, we go straight to penalties. Emile Smith Rowe and Fabio Vieira come on for Gabriel and Havertz.

A total of 81,145 fans at Wembley today, we’re informed.

82’ - Arsenal 0-1 Man City
17:44 , Karl Matchett

Should be 2-0! Alvarez squirms through three challenges and squares for Foden who sidesteps the last defender and just has to beat Ramsdale...but the keeper gets a heel to the ball and flicks it wide for a corner! He then immediately makes another good, low stop to his right to prevent the flicked header going in off the set-piece.

80’ - Arsenal 0-1 Man City
17:42 , Karl Matchett

Ten minutes for the Gunners to find a way back into the game or it’s another trophy for City.

Nketiah on for Rice - who is booed by City fans for having the temerity to turn them down, naturally - as Arteta looks to push for an equaliser.

A few replays of that Palmer goal are absolutely gorgeous - Ramsdale nowhere near it, finds the gap between Gabriel and the post wonderfully. Not great from Tierney initially, just after coming on.

GOAL - 76’ - Arsenal 0-1 Man City
17:38 , Karl Matchett

GOAL!! Now Arteta does make a double change. Both down the left too: Tierney and Trossard, for Martinelli and Timber.

Tierney is immedately beaten by Cole Palmer - who bends a great shot into the far top corner!

72’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City
17:35 , Karl Matchett

City mounting rather omre pressure now. They seem to have stepped up a gear without much trouble, while Arsenal - maybe tiring, no subs yet - are now finding it a lot harder to get out of their own defensive third.

68’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City
17:32 , Karl Matchett

First big chance of note for City this half. It’s worked from left to right with Foden teeing up Palmer in the bo - his shot is blocked by Timber and flicks just over Ramsdale’s crossbar.

The short corner is worked all the way back out to Walker and his deep cross is cleared behind for yet another set piece on the opposite side.

64’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City
17:29 , Karl Matchett

Rice, tracking back, earns his first big roar of appreciation from the Arsenal fans for robbing Silva of the ball and setting the Gunners back on the front foot.

Moments later a fizzing cross from White is only half-met by Saka, then is quickly blocked and cleared. Arsenal continue to produce by far the more dangerous moments of the match.

60’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City
17:25 , Karl Matchett

Martinelli makes ground down the left, it’s worked back to Rice who curls one in first time...and nearly finds the upper tier of the Wembley stands.

More City subs on the way: Cole Palmer and Kevin de Bruyne for Erling Haaland and Mateo Kovacic.

56’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City
17:21 , Karl Matchett

Grealish replaced by Phil Foden as Pep goes to his bench first.

Dias overruns the ball slightly and clips Saka on the follow through - the England winger goes down but there’s no card out this time.

52’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City
17:14 , Karl Matchett

Odegaard is down for treatment so the rest of the 19 outfielders sprint across for a drinks break and some furious managerial gesticulation.

He looks fine to continue, the Arsenal skipper, and we’re back underway once more.

48’ - Arsenal 0-0 Man City
17:11 , Karl Matchett

Early possession for City but not too much in the way of breaking Arsenal’s defensive lines. Guardiola has a few words with Stones which were clearly too important to say at half time all of three minutes ago.

Grealish beats White and crosses from the left, but Saliba, Thomas and Gabriel clear between them.

46' - Arsenal 0-0 Man City
17:07 , Karl Matchett

Back underway at Wembley!

HT - Arsenal 0-0 Man City
16:56 , Karl Matchett

All square at the break. Mikel Arteta and Kai Havertz among those in the book - more niggles and fouls than massive chances in that half.

The best have fallen to Arsenal’s new signing Havertz, but he’s been denied twice - Rodri has twice gone close from long range for Man City.