Arsenal vs Manchester City open season in Cardiff Community Shield
The match is seen as an early test of whether Arsenal still have hunger after their league title and how City start the new season.
Arsenal will face Manchester City in the Community Shield this weekend in Cardiff, a symbolic curtain-raiser to the new English football season. The match is seen as offering an early indication of the state of the two top clubs ahead of the start of the Premier League. Arsenal arrive after ending a long wait to win the league title in May, but questions remain over whether their intensity and motivation have held after a season that was physically and emotionally draining. City, too, enter the season with plenty to be read into from the outset. Even so, the Community Shield is still viewed as a more ceremonial fixture, so any conclusions from the result should be drawn cautiously.