Welcome to our live coverage of Liverpool v Manchester City in the Community Shield, the traditional curtain raiser to the top flight campaign.
These two teams have dominated English football for the past few seasons and it would not be a surprise to see them battle it out for the Premier League title again this year.
How much this game will tell us about future title battles remains to be seen – and it will also be interesting to see how both managers line up today at the King Power Stadium, which hosts the Euro 2022 final clash between England and Germany play at Wembley tomorrow.
You’d imagine that neither Jurgen Klopp nor Pep Guardiola want to give their rivals any chance of a slight mental advantage ahead of the campaign, but that has to be balanced against the demands of an ongoing pre-season.
Both sides also have slightly changed attacking options this year, with trusted goalscorers Raheem Sterling and Sadio Mane replaced by flashy youngsters Erling Haaland and Darwin Nunez – and this may be the first real look at how these new cogs fit into two well-oiled winning machines.
However, Klopp has already suggested this will be more of a rebuild than a reinvention for his side.
The German said: “We want to be the team that nobody wants to play against because when they have the ball they have pressure everywhere and when we have the ball we have to have more consistency and when we have the ball we have to create new ways , we need to help guys with the positioning, not invent new ones, that’s not necessary, but include new things here and there. That’s what we’ve really been working on.”
Today’s match kicks off at 5pm live on ITV. We’ll have all the pre-match build-up for you beforehand and then live updates throughout.
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