Arsenal vs Manchester City LIVE: Latest team news and line-ups from Community Shield

Arsenal XI: Raya; White, Gabriel, Mosquera, Calafiori, Lewis-Skelly; Guimaraes, Odegaard; Madueke, Havertz, Tzolis

“It’s a very exciting part of the season, when a lot of things happen,” Mikel Arteta said of the transfer window.

“I think you create excitement; there’s an opportunity as well to evolve. There’s also a good way to understand what every player is feeling. We are trying the maximum that we can to end up in 14 days, 13 days in the best possible condition to compete for every possible competition.

“It’s always the case; there’s an opportunity there to go both ways, and we’ll have to see how the market responds and what we as a club can do.”

The Arsenal manager said: “Jurrien [Timber] is progressing really well, he is on the pitch. We are ramping up now with certain actions and especially the volume and the load, and

“I think he is on a good trajectory, but there are still a few weeks to go.

“He needs to start training with the group in the next week or so, hopefully, and then see how he progresses from there.

“It’s been a long-term issue right now, and we want to make sure that every step that we take is the right one, he feels right to do that and he’s such an important player for us.”

There was a particularly distinguished passenger on a distinctly unglamorous airline. Rodri was on the Ryanair flight to Liverpool and part of the surprise for some was that, via Merseyside, he was returning to Manchester at all. The subject of bids from Barcelona, Rodri’s future may lie in his native Spain rather than at Manchester City.

It is so far unknown if he incurred Ryanair’s infamous fines for bringing the World Cup’s Golden Ball in hand luggage or whether he stowed it under a seat.

This is just Manchester City’s second ever match at the Principality Stadium, with the other coming in a Uefa Cup qualifying match against TNS in August 2003,

They won that fixture 2-0. So, I guess, City can claim to be unbeaten at this ground. Will that give them an edge over Arsenal?

Arsenal have won all three of our Community Shield matches against Manchester City.

During the period it was first used between 2001 and 2007, the Gunners played more games at the Principality Stadium than any other side (10).

On the last 10 occasions the Community Shield has been between the league champions and the FA Cup winners, the FA Cup holders have won eight times.

The exceptions were both Man City, beating Chelsea in 2018 and Man Utd in 2024.

Manchester City last won the Community Shield in 2024, beating Manchester United on penalties.

However, they’ve been runners-up in the match nine times, with only their neighbours doing so more (10).

Only Manchester United (21) have won the Community Shield more often than Arsenal (17, including shared).

The Gunners have won each of their last five such fixtures.

They have also won all three matches as reigning Premier League champions (1998, 2002, 2004).