Community Shield Cup Final： Manchester City and Arsenal compete for the first place in the five major leagues this season.

　　In the 2023-24 season, at 4pm UK time, Manchester City will play against Arsenal in the final of the Community Shield Cup, which is usually the Premier League champion vs the FA Cup champion last season. Manchester City won the triple crown last season, so Arsenal, the runner-up in the league, became another team to participate in this cup. In the Premier League era, a team won the double crown (including the triple crown) seven times, and five of them won the Community Shield Cup. The two exceptions were Manchester United in 1999 (when they won the triple crown, the Community Shield Cup was defeated by Arsenal) and Chelsea in 2010 (when they won the double crown, they were defeated by Manchester United in the Community Shield Cup).

　　Manchester city this is the third community shield cup against arsenal; The previous two times Manchester City all lost, 0-4 at Highbury Stadium in 1934 and 0-3 at Wembley Stadium in 2014.

　　Arsenal have only lost 2 games (9 wins and 4 draws) in the last 15 competitions at Wembley Stadium. The two losses were in February 2018 when the Premier League lost to Tottenham and the Carling Cup final lost to Manchester City. However, Arsenal's most feared team is Manchester City. Although they topped the standings for a long time last season, they lost 3-1 at home in the Premier League in February. If the Gunners want to win the Premier League, Manchester City will be the touchstone on their way forward.

　　Manchester City has made remarkable achievements against Arsenal. Last season, it beat Arsenal of Artta three times (two Premiership and one FA Cup). Under Guardiola's leadership, Manchester City won 16 victories against Arsenal in 19 times, including the latest seven-game winning streak (scoring 21-4 goals). In 2023, we have defeated Arsenal three times. If we win this game. Coupled with winning the Premier League game in October, it will set a new record in history: defeating Arsenal five times in a single natural year for the first time.

　　However, during the period when Arsenal beat Manchester City twice at Wembley Stadium, the decibel was the semi-finals of the FA in 2017 and 2020, so the sought-after people naturally hoped to win the championship smoothly in this key game on Sunday.

　　Arsenal fans are delighted that they have brought in Les, Timbo and Havertz in this summer window. The joining of these players has given Arsenal, which competed fiercely with Manchester City for the championship last season, a top-level lineup. So far, Manchester City has only signed kovacic. Nevertheless, the starting point of Manchester City is still much higher than Arsenal, and they are still the favourites to win the Premier League this season. If they do, it will be the first team in English history to win four consecutive championships.

　　On the Manchester City side, their new captain De Braune and main central defender are still recovering from injuries, both of whom missed the friendly match against Bayern in Seoul last week. De Blaunet has contributed 8 goals (6 goals and 2 assists) against Arsenal in the previous 8 times, including 5 goals in the last 2 times. He also participated in 6 goals (1 goal and 5 assists) in the team's last 8 visits to Wembley Stadium. Therefore, his absence has greatly enhanced Arsenal's hope of winning the championship.

　　Meanwhile, Arsenal will lose the main center Jesus, who missed the team's warm-up match this season. Coach Artta revealed that Jesus will have "minor surgery" on his knee. Arsenal's defeat last season was largely due to the injury of Saliba, the main central defender, in the final stage, which made them unexpectedly lose to Brighton and Nottingham Forest.

　　Arsenal scored 2 goals and conceded 7 goals in two Premier League games against Manchester City in February and April this year. The two goals were a penalty from Saca and a set-piece goal from central defender Holding.

　　The probability of winning in regular time is 54.6% for Manchester City and 21.8% for Arsenal. If the draw is added, Arsenal's unbeaten rate is as high as 45.4%.