The bad luck of the teams that won the British Super Cup
The Super Cup match opens the new season of English football. But since the title was named Community Shield in 2002, only six times have the winning teams crowned the Premier League at the end of the season.
After Chelsea in 2006, 2010, Man Utd in 2008, 2009 and 2011, the last team to win the English Super Cup and then win the Premier League in the same season is Man City. In 2018, Pep Guardiola's army won the English Super Cup and then won the Premier League season 2018-2019 with 98 points, 1 point more than Liverpool. In the same season, Man City also won the League Cup and FA Cup to become the first English club to win every domestic title in a season.
Guardiola and Man City dominated English football, attending five of the last six English Super Cup matches, but only won two, in 2018 and 2019. However, after winning the 2019 English Super Cup, Man City was usurped by Liverpool. English Premier League season 2019-2020.
Last year, Liverpool beat Man City to win the English Super Cup, but only finished fifth in the Premier League and missed the Champions League in the 2023-2024 season. In 2021, Leicester won the English Super Cup but only finished eighth in the Premier League, and then finished last season's table.
Mikel Arteta's Arsenal won the English Super Cup in 2020, when they beat Liverpool 5-4 in a penalty shootout. But then, "Gunners" only ranked eighth in the English Premier League season 2020-2021, and missed the European Cup for the first time in 25 years, since the 1995-1996 season.
At Wembley Stadium on August 6, Cole Palmer cut his heart into the far corner to open the scoring for Man City in the 77th minute, before Leandro Trossard hit midfielder Manuel Akanji changed direction to equalize 1-1 in the 11th minute, bringing the match. play in the penalty shootout. Here, while Man City only succeeded with a shot from Bernardo Silva, four Arsenal players Martin Odegaard, Trossard, Bukayo Saka and Fabio Vieira all completed the task.
This result helped Arsenal cut a streak of nine defeats to Man City in all competitions to win the English Super Cup for the 17th time, after 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2020. This achievement is only inferior to Man Utd with 21 crowns.
In the first round of the English Premier League season 2023-2024 this weekend, Arsenal met Nottingham Forest at the Emirates Stadium on August 12, and Man City was a guest of rookie Burnley a day earlier.
