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, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's Premier League,

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, and the winners of the previous season's FA Cup, Liverpool. The match was played on 30 July 2022. For the first time in 10 years, the match took place away from the usual Wembley Stadium due to the hosting of the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 final and was instead played at Leicester City's King Power Stadium. Leicester City were the defending champions as winners of the

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, but did not qualify for this edition, as they failed to win either the Premier League or FA Cup. The match was televised live in the United Kingdom on

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. Liverpool won the match 3–1 for their 16th FA Community Shield title, the first in 16 years. With the game played at the much-reduced capacity of Leicester City's stadium, there were 28,545 spectators, the lowest number for a Charity Shield or Community Shield game since 23,988 watched Burnley beat Manchester City 1–0 at Maine Road in

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Background

Liverpool won their FA Cup title after their match against Chelsea resulted in a 0–0 draw in the final, after extra time, and then 6–5 on penalties. Manchester City won their FA Community Shield position by virtue of winning the

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. This was a rematch of the

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, which Manchester City won on penalties.

Match

Summary

In the 21st minute

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passed to Trent Alexander-Arnold from the right and he opened the scoring with a curling effort from the edge of the box which took a slight deflection off

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and nestled in the left corner of the net. With twenty minutes to go,

equalised when

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scored by poking the ball into the net from close range after Liverpool goalkeeper Adrián had initially saved a shot from substitute Phil Foden. The goal was awarded after a lengthy VAR check. With seven minutes left, Liverpool were awarded a penalty after

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had handled a header from substitute Darwin Núñez with his right hand inside the penalty area. Salah scored the penalty with a low shot to the right corner. In the fourth minute of injury time, Núñez made it 3–1 when he stooped low to head the ball to the net after the ball was headed down to him from the left by Andrew Robertson after an initial cross from the right by Salah.

Details

References

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