Community Shield
Aug 6, 2017 2.00pm
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FT Wembley
  • Cesar Azpilicueta 13' yellowcard
  • Marcos Alonso 35' yellowcard
  • Willian 37' yellowcard
  • Victor Moses 46' goal
  • Pedro 80' redcard
  • yellowcard Hector Bellerin 15'
  • goal Sead Kolasinac 82'

Team News: Alexandre Lacazette leads Arsenal line in Community Shield

Alexandre Lacazette leads Arsenal line

Alexandre Lacazette will lead Arsenal's line in Sunday's Community Shield against Chelsea.

The Frenchman, who moved to the Emirates Stadium from Lyon this summer, is the only debutant in the Arsenal team, with fellow new signing Sead Kolasinac only named among the substitutes.

It is a 3-4-3 formation for the Gunners, with Alex Iwobi and Danny Welbeck preferred to Theo Walcott and Oliver Giroud.

As for Chelsea, record signing Alvaro Morata starts on the bench alongside fellow new arrivals Antonio Rudiger and Willy Caballero.

Michy Batshuayi will start at the tip of the Chelsea attack, while Cesc Fabregas joins N'Golo Kante in the middle of midfield.

Chelsea: Courtois; Azpilicueta, Luiz, Cahill; Moses, Fabregas, Kante, Alonso; Willian, Batshuayi, Pedro Subs: Caballero, Rudiger, Christensen, Scott, Boga, Musonda, Morata

Arsenal: Cech; Holding, Mertesacker, Monreal; Bellerin, Elneny, Xhaka, Oxlade-Chamberlain; Welbeck, Lacazette, Iwobi Subs: Ospina, Kolasinac, Willock, Nelson, Maitland-Niles, Walcott, Giroud

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