Manchester City win Community Shield after beating Manchester ...

“I enjoyed the season against our rival in Manchester and to start the season with a title is good. We are really pleased,” says the Manchester City boss in a chat with ITV.

“We lost a lot of balls, after transitions they are one of the best teams in the world. They are so dangerous to control. But in the end we did it. It is nice to play this game because it means you won something in the previous season.

“Now we see how the players come back. The target now is not to win the Premier League, it is ‘OK next game try and win it’. This is what we have to do.”

“Yes, definitely,” says the Manchester United boss upon being asked by ITV if that’s a tough result to take. “When the performance is right, we are winning in the game and the penalties as well, if you go on to lose everyone feels it. It hurts in your stomach but we have to take this.

“You have to hurt because the pain will drive us and give us motivation to do better. What positives we can take out of this is that we can compete with City and we have to take this into the league.”

“It’s a great feeling, it’s the first time we’ve won it in two, three … four [it’s five] and to do it with a young group is great,” says the City winger in an interview with ITV.

“The belief was key, all the way through we had it and kept going, we didn’t get too downbeat [when United scored] and it came.

“I thought it was going to be Erling [on the end of my cross], but Bernie is a great header of the ball. It’s another trophy and a great start to the season. It gives us a lot of confidence, no negatives.”

Match report: Substitutes Alejandro Garnacho and Bernardo Silva traded late goals in a generally forgettable encounter but it was fitting that a shootout was the deciding metric as Manchester City won the Community Shield for the first time in five years. Will Unwin reports from Wembley …

The trophy lift: Manchester City’s players climb the Wembley steps and are presented with their medals before the Community Shield is presented to Kevin De Bruyne by Mike Summerbee. The Belgian hoists it towards the heavens as a rousing rendition of Blue Moon blares out over the PA.

Ruben Dias: “Obviously it feels great to start the season winning,” says City’s captain in an on-field interview conducted for the benfit of the City fans. “We have lost here in the last three years.”

“We’re happy to start the season in the way we have and obviously there’s a lot to come. It’s another trophy and we’re always happy to collect trophies. We’ve just had a long season and we still don’t have a full squad back but it is very good for us to start this way.

“It’s very different circumstances to the FA Cup final but it’s a final and we love to win finals. The way we played, conceding a goal but then to make it 1-1, I’m very proud of all of us and very happy with the win.

“Thank you for coming, this is very special for us and we know what this means to you. It’s for them [the fans] why we’re here.”

Manuel Akanji: The Swiss international missed the last penalty he took in a Euro 2024 shootout against England in the summer and while scoring the decisive one here is unlikely to make up for that disappointment, he’s happy he got it.

“I let the others shoot first because obviously when you miss your last penalty you don’t go with so much confidence into the next one,” he tells ITV. “I had a good feeling.

“Maybe if I didn’t take it I would have had to wait even longer if somebody else had missed in front of me. I tried it yesterday in training and told Eddie I was going to go down the middle and it went in.”

On Ederson’s penalty: “He’s probably the best penalty-taker in our team … maybe Erling as well. I haven’t seen him miss for us and I know when he takes a penalty it’s going to be a goal.”

Manchester City win: Pep Guardiola’s side triumph 7-6 on penalties following a match that both managers and sets of fans will take plenty of positives from. Or negatives, depending on their mindsets.

The post-match celebrations are understandably low key but a significant number of City fans have hung around for the trophy lift compared to their United counterparts, who have quickly vacated the stadium.

Manuel Akanji scores! And Manchester City have prevailed in an entertaining shootout that followed a decent game at Wembley.

Penalty shootout: Oh dear! Jonny Evans shanks his effort over the bar. He was leaning backwards as he tried to go down the middle. Over to you, Manuel Akanji.

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Penalty shootout: Ruben Dias strokes the ball into the bottom corner after Onana went too early.

Penalty shootout: Lisandro Martinez makes no mistake and United are in front again.

Penalty shootout: Boom! Matheus Nunes rifles one into the top corner.

Penalty shootout: Scott McTominay scores into the bottom corner, the ball curling away from Ederson.

Penalty shootout: Ederson takes one and sends his opposite number the wrong way.

Penalty shootout: Casemiro score past his compatriot Ederson, sending him the wrong way.

Penalty shootout: Savinho scores for City and we’re into sudden death.

Penalty shootout: Jadon Sancho is denied by a fine save by Ederson, who gets a strong right- hand to the ball.

Penalty shootout: Erling Haaland scores, despite the best attempts of Onana to put him off by pointing to which side of the goal he’d like the Norwegian to put it.

Penalty shootout: Alejandro Garnacho curls a shot into the left side-netting. Excellent spot-kick.

Penalty shootout: Kevin De Bruyne hit the bar this time last year but makes no mistake this time.

Penalty shootout: Ederson gets a glove on the ball but can’t Diogo Dalot’s powerful shot out.

Penalty shootout: It’s a poor effort lacking in conviction from Bernardo Silva and Andre Onana saves.

Penalty shootout: Bruno Fernandes sidefoots the ball into the corner, sending Ederson the wrong way.

Attendance watch: There are more than 78,000 brave souls in Wembley, which is a credit to the travelling support of both teams, given the non-importance of the fixture and the vagaries of rail travel when it comes to getting from Manchester to London at weekends.

Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeeeeep! Jarrad Gillett signals full-time with the scores level, which means we’ll have a penalty shootout to decide the outcome after Bernardo Silva’s header cancelled out Alejandro Garnacho’s opener.

90+4 min: Kovacic gallops upfield through the centre and plays the ball wide to Savinho. The ball finds its way to De Bruye, who curls a cross into the corridor of uncertainty between United’s goalkeeper and centre-backs. Andre Onana drops on it, snuffing out any danger.

90+2 min: We’re into five minutes of stoppage time and United have a free-kick wide on the right in a good position. Fernandes trots over to take it but his delivery is poor and fails to beat the first man.

90+1 min: City substitutions: Kevin De Bruyne and Nathan Ake on for Oscar Bobb and Josko Gvardiol.

City equalise! Now Silva heads home at the far post, getting the better of Pellistri to convert a fine Oscar Bobb cross from six yards out.

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87 min: Only on the field a couple of minutes, Bernardo Silva has been booked for a complete unnecessary, very late challenge on Alejandro Garnacho.

84 min: Jadon Sancho’s return to the United fold after last season’s unedifying dispute with Erik Ten Hag is rubberstamped. He’s on for Marcus Rashford, who has had a disappointing afternoon at the Wembley office.

83 min: Garnacho has been desperately trying to make things happen since coming on and on this occasion decided he couldn’t rely on any of his teammates and would take care of business himself. It was an excellent solo goal.

United lead! Garnacho picks up the ball on the inside right, cuts inside, continues to cut inside and sends a left-footed shot from 18 yards into the bottom right-hand corner.

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81 min: City substitution: Bernardo Silva on, James McAtee off.

79 min: The ball’s lofted towards Rashford at the far post and his downward header sits up beautifully for McTominay on the edge of the six-yard box. The Scot swings his right boot at the ball and misses it completely. Oh dear.