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The 2021 FA Community Shield ( besides known as The FA Community Shield supported by McDonald’s for sponsorship reasons ) was the 99th FA Community Shield, an annual football match played between the winners of the former season ‘s Premier League, Manchester City, and the winners of the previous season ‘s FA Cup, Leicester City. [ 3 ] This was Manchester City ‘s first FA Community Shield since 2019 when they beat liverpool 5–4 on penalties after a 1–1 draw, and Leicester ‘s first since losing 2–1 to Manchester United in the 2016 edition. The game was played on 7 August 2021 at Wembley Stadium in Wembley, London, with Leicester beating Manchester City 1–0 with a 89th-minute penalty by Kelechi Iheanacho. [ 4 ] Arsenal were the defending champions as winners of the 2020 FA Community Shield, but did not qualify for this version, as they failed to win either the Premier League or FA Cup. The meet was televised populate on ITV. It was the first time the FA Community Shield went free-to-air on television since the 2012 FA Community Shield, which was besides shown on ITV. [ 5 ]

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Leicester City won their first FA Cup deed after beating Chelsea 1–0 in the final. [ 6 ] They were appearing in their third FA Community Shield match, having won one ( 1971 ), and lost one ( 2016 ).

Manchester City won their third Premier League title in four years under the management of Pep Guardiola, after bowler hat rivals Manchester United lost 1–2 to Leicester City at Old Trafford on 11 May 2021. [ 7 ] They were appearing in their 13th match, having won six ( 1937, 1968, 1972, 2012, 2018, 2019 ), and lost six ( 1934, 1956, 1969, 1973, 2011, 2014 ) .

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In the beginning half, Steffen managed to save a shoot from Vardy with his trailing right foot while diving to the leave, with ball coming back off the left position. In the last minute of the match Leicester were awarded a penalty when Aké tripped Kelechi Iheanacho in the penalty area after he had failed to control a base on balls from Rodri. [ 8 ] Iheanacho scored the punishment left-footed to the right of the net to win the game 1–0. [ 9 ]

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Leicester City boss Brendan Rodgers said to BBC Radio Leicester about winning the FA Community for the first clock : “ There was a great feel coming here today. Every Leicester musician, fan, staff extremity coming here, it was a actually special spirit. We wanted to take that into the crippled and keep that feeling going, and thankfully we ‘ve done that ”. Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola said about losing the FA Community Shield : “ Congratulations to Leicester [ City ]. I am more than satisfied with how we played. many things were very good, the young players were excellent. We got minutes for players so in general, many full things. ” Guardiola gave debuts to Academy players : Cole Palmer, Samuel Edozie and Ben Knight with Edozie and Palmer starting the match and Knight came off the bench to replace Ferran Torres in the 74th hour. [ 10 ] Leicester City started their 2021–22 Premier League campaign with a 1–0 home win over Wolverhampton Wanderers with Jamie Vardy scoring the only goal in the 41st infinitesimal. [ 12 ] Manchester City started their 2021–22 Premier League campaign as the defend champions at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium where they faced Tottenham Hotspur and lost 1–0 to a fifty-fifth moment Son Heung-min finish, giving new Tottenham Hotspur head coach Nuno Espírito Santo his first succeed in charge of Tottenham Hotspur. Record signing Jack Grealish made his Manchester City starting XI introduction in the peer. [ 13 ]

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