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Arsenal 1-1 Chelsea (4-1 on penalties): Community Shield - As it happened

FULL TIME: Arsenal 1-1 Chelsea (Arsenal win 4-1 on penalties)
Updated: 06 August 2017 21:06 IST - Published: 06 August 2017 20:35 IST
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Arsenal won their 15th Community Shield after beating Chelsea in penalties
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That's it from me today. We'll be back for the UEFA Super Cup in a couple of days. Until then, this is Rohith Nair signing off. So long!

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Victor Moses opened the scoring for Chelsea but Sead Kolasinac equalised for Arsenal - both goals coming as a result of a set-piece. In the end, it was the Gunners who triumphed in the penalty shootout as Thibaut Courtois (?) and Alvaro Morata failed to find the back of the net. 

And it's a pre-season treble yet again for Arsenal.
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Giroud scores! Arsenal win the penalty shootout 4-1 to beat Chelsea in the Community Shield (in the first ever AB-BA penalty shootout). 
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Arsenal lead 3-1 and Olivier Giroud is up next. Can he win it for Arsenal?
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Oxlade-Chamberlain next up for Arsenal - SCORES! 
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Alvaro Morata up next for Chelsea - MISS! It goes wide of Cech's right post. 
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Courtous up next - MISS! Huge miss! He boots it into the roof of Wembley! What a terrible hit!
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Nacho Monreal is up next for Arsenal - SCORES! He sends Courtois the wrong way. 
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Arsenal have two kicks now. First up is Theo Walcott - SCORES! Straight into the top corner! 1-1.
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Chelsea are going first and Gary Cahill walks up for the first kick - And SCORES! Cech goes the wrong way. 
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On to penalties then! Arsenal's stand-in captain Petr Cech wins the toss and picks the end with the Arsenal fans behind goal. 
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We've just seen Mertesacker's face again after his collision with Cahill's elbow. It looks like someone took a butcher knife to his eyebrow! That's one scar that won't fade anytime soon. 
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In case you didn't know, we will see a brand new penalty shootout system at Wembley: Details here. 
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FULL TIME: Arsenal 1-1 Chelsea

We're going to penalties! 
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92' GOOO... No, just wide! Fabregas floats in a free-kick but Morata's header is just wide of Cech's post. So close! 
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FIVE minutes added on. Five! 
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90' Arsenal are struggling to find an opening as Chelsea park the bus. There's nine blue shirts in the box! 
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88' SUBSTITUTION: Danny Welbeck comes off and Reiss Nelson is on. So Wenger doesn't want Welbeck to take penalties then?
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85' With five minutes to go and the score tied at 1-1, will we see the AB-BA penalty shootout? There is no extra-time in the Community Shield. 
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83' SUBSTITUTION: Musonda comes on for Willian.
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82' Arsenal capitalise on the free-kick and extra man. Xhaka's free-kick is floated in and Sead Kolasinac rises above the rest to head it home past Courtois who was rooted to the spot. 1-1!
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GOOOAAALLL! Arsenal 1-1 Chelsea
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80' RED CARD! Pedro attempts to stop Elneny in his tracks but ends up stepping on the back of his ankle. His boot was raised and Elneny is in pain. The referee goes into his pocket and pulls out a red card - straight red!