Only one team in TWELVE years have won EPL after lifting the Community Shield

Arsenal's triumph in the Community Shield brings the third piece of silverware to North London under Mikel Arteta, but history shows this may not be a good omen for their Premier League title hopes.

While winning the traditional curtain-raiser for the new season against Pep Guardiola's Treble winning Manchester City team is nothing to sneer at, only one side to win Community Shield has gone on to lift the Premier League in the last 12 years.

Since 2011 only City themselves (in 2018) have followed up this pre-season trophy with a first placed finish at the end of the season.

For some, the competition offers a chance to fill more space in the trophy cabinet but for many others it has also become somewhat of an omen ahead of the Premier League campaign.

So Arteta will be pleased with his side's 4-1 win on penalties over his former boss Guardiola as he finally ends his poor run of form against City, but he may well be wary of what this means for the season to come.

The Arsenal boss had previously lost nine successive matches against the current Premier League title holders, with the most recent two losses in the league billed as Arsenal throwing away last season's title chances.

The Gunners lost 4-1 and 3-1 to City last season but drew 1-1 at Wembley after a 101st-minute Leandro Trossard strike cancelled out Cole Palmer's excellent second-half finish.

It was Fabio Vieira's coolly dispatched winning spot kick that gave Arteta only his third victory over Guardiola in 18 games, with all three coming at Wembley.

The Gunners' boss will be buoyed by the win and his team's overall performance as he started all three of his summer signings in the final.

Former Ajax defender Jurien Timber started at left-back, with £105m man Declan Rice