Minute-by-minute updates on the action in Leicester as the big two reunite. Join Rob Smyth
What crazy hell kinda month do you call this? For the first time, the curtain is being raised on the new English season in July. Thehas been played in April , May , August, September and October , but never before in July. Welcome to 2022-23, a feast/slog like no other, with a World Cup for a winter break and a Champions League final in the middle of June.
There’s only one way for it to start: with a meeting between the best two teams in England, perhaps the best in the world. The Community Shield between Liverpool and Manchester City is being played at Leicester’s King Power Stadium, becauseFor reasons too boring to explain, mostly involving the FA Cup, this is only the second Community Shield involving City and.
Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp have set obscene standards, making 90+ points the norm rather than the exception. Now they are aiming even higher by signing classical centre-forwards. There’s nothing false about Erling Haaland and Darwin Nunez, a pair of nines who are as true as a dying man’s final words.
Evolving a great team comes with risk , but the main reaction to the signings of Haaland and Nunez is excitement - for the teams involved, for the Premier League and for the folk who keep goalscoring records. If the presence of Haaland and Nunez isn’t a decent selling point for an otherwise underwhelming fixture, then I don’t know what is. Today is our first chance to see them in a semi-competitive game; to compare and contrast and despair when Andy Carroll starts trending on Twitter.
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