Community Shield Report, Results, Target

Mohamed Salah, Alexis Mac Allister and Harvey Elliott won the second time in three months at Wembley Stadium, winning at Wembley Stadium and winning 3-2 in 2025 Community Shields, thus playing for Liverpool.

The new Liverpool signed Hugo Ekitike and Jeremie Frimpong, when both sides traded three goals in the opening 22 minutes, with Jean-Philippe Mateta’s penalty on both sides.

Crystal Palace won the Community Shield! 🏆

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Mo Salah misses Liverpool’s opening fine in the gunfight 😳

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Mac Allister and Eze both missed it on the spot

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Ismaila Sarr then thrilled Adam Wharton’s weighted pass on the right channel, entered the free throw area and shrank a cute right-foot ticket through close-range racing in the 77th minute.

Salah sent the opening attempt of the shootout high over the target and goalkeeper Dean Henderson denied Mac Allister and Elliott to make Palace the first team to win the showpiece match at the first attempt, with Alisson turning Eberechi Eze’s effort against a post and Borna Sosa hitting the crossbar on his Eagles debut before substitute Justin Devenny smoked in the decisive kick.

Clinical from ismaïlasarr

Van Dijk upgraded early and the striker made full use of it!

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Introduction to Hugo Ekitike🤩

The big Frenchman made his mark for 4 minutes and put Liverpool ahead with a great ending⚽️

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French under-21 striker Ekitike showed why Liverpool paid him £69m Eintracht Frankfurt in the fourth minute, swapping Florian Wirtz on the left and moving to the right on the left to curl the top quarter of his death outside of US defenders Chris Richards and Henderson.

Liverpool is in front, and this is another newcomer as Jeremia Frimpong’s cross finds the distant corner, making it 2-1⚽️

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“Some things just should be”

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German midfielder Wirtz arrived from Leverkusen for £100 million in June, potentially rising to a UK record of £16 million.

With the highest score in the first half of the Community Shield game since 1992, the FA Cup holder’s Palace equalized through Mateta’s free throws as Virgil Van Dijk Foulled Sarr.

All levels of Wembley! 🤯

Van Dijk fouled Sarr and Mateta stood up confidently and collapsed the fine with a 1-1 fine!

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The Palace level was four minutes, and in the right loop of Henderson, Frimpong’s cross restored Liverpool’s lead on Dominik Szoboszlai’s tilt pass, giving the Dutch right back.

Frimpong joined the dominant Premier League champion from Leverkusen for £29.5m in May.

The Palace may be the happier side in the 90 minutes before the penalty, which shows that the balance of determination and offense has taken them past Manchester City in the FA Cup final in May.

Kerkez and Frimpong are Liverpool’s last four new defenders, occasionally convincing, including Van Dijk’s mistake when the captain mistakenly thought the cross-country trap around him was the Palace’s second goal.

Sarr extended to the final 12 games in Liverpool’s record, including the Righties, as Van Dijk shook his head.

Mateta and Sarr also scored for Palace in the gunfight, while Gakpo and Szoboszlai also scored at Liverpool.

It’s also the sixth Community Shield game of the last nine free throws, including the last three.

Manchester City beat Manchester United last year, Arsenal beat the city in 2023, while the Gunners beat Liverpool in 2020 and Chelsea in 2017.

City also beat Liverpool through Spot Kicks in 2019.

Crystal Palace lineup and Liverpool

Palace owner Oliver Glasner chose the same 11 and started his first FA Cup final victory.

Talisman Eberechi Eze’s future at the club has been the subject of a lot of speculation in the summer, and they are expected to provide the creative spark of the palace.

Mateta leads the club’s first community shield look.

The palace begins: Henderson, Munoz, Richards, La Croix, Gree, Mitchell, Wharton, Kamada, Ez, Saar, Mattha

Palace subs: Benitez, Lerma, Clyne, Hughes, Esse, Edouard, Sosa, Devenny, Cardines