Man City 1-3 Liverpool: Erling Haaland flop in the final as Darwin Nunez steals the show with a second half master class.
Liverpool defeated Manchester City to win the English trophy tonight, with goals from Alexander-Arnold, Mohammed Salah and Darwin Nunez.
Haaland was poor in his first competitive game for Man City, fans not impressed. He missed a lot of golden chances.
Darwin Nunez came from the bench and he won a penalty and also makes it 3-1 to win the trophy for Liverpool.
Darwin Nunez gets his goal 🙌🇺🇾
Liverpool draw first blood against Man City this season 👏#LIVMCI pic.twitter.com/4T586WDtQ6
— ITV Football (@itvfootball) July 30, 2022
Erling Haaland, a striker for Manchester City, has touched the ball eight times during this evening’s Community Shield match against Liverpool.
The 22-year-old recently signed with City for £51 million, and Pep Guardiola’s team anticipates him to be the line leader.
Although Haaland has excelled for RB Salzburg and Borussia Dortmund, it might take some time for him to adjust to English football.
It was clear during the first 45 minutes of play at the King Power Stadium, where the Norway international was hardly present.
Virgil van Dijk and Joel Matip controlled Haaland admirably for the majority of the first half, and Liverpool lead 1-0 at the break.
In spite of this, Haaland created two opportunities for himself just over the halfway point.
When Adrian and he were face to face, he fired a shot directly at the Spaniard. Immediately after, his attempt spun into the air when he mishandled a cross from Joao Cancelo.
So far, fans’ reactions to Haaland’s performance have been generally negative.
One commenter suggested that City bring on Haaland at halftime.
The phrase “already proving he won’t fit into the system hardly touched the ball” was used as well.
A video with 90k likes would have been up by now if Nunez had only missed that Haaland opportunity, according to a third tweet.
Haaland will be surprised to learn that PL teams genuinely defend in games, someone else predicted.
When Adrian and he were face to face, he fired a shot directly at the Spaniard. Immediately after, his attempt spun into the air when he mishandled a cross from Joao Cancelo.
So far, fans’ reactions to Haaland’s performance have been generally negative.
One commenter suggested that City bring on Haaland at halftime.
The phrase “already proving he won’t fit into the system hardly touched the ball” was used as well.
A video with 90k likes would have been up by now if Nunez had only missed that Haaland opportunity, according to a third tweet.
Haaland will be surprised to learn that PL teams genuinely defend in games, someone else predicted.
The full-back received the ball just outside the box, took a shot, and Nathan Ake, the opposing defender, deflected the shot into his own goal.
Darwin Nunez, an £85 million summer acquisition, was benched by Jurgen Klopp in favor of starting a front three consisting of Mohamed Salah, Luis Diaz, and Roberto Firmino.
Riyad Mahrez was City’s most dangerous attacker and tested Andrew Robertson out wide as the game progressed.
Wembley will host the final of the Euro 2022 tournament between England and Germany on Sunday, thus the Community Shield will take place at the King Power Stadium instead.
