Wenger chose to respond in his usual style by reminding Mourinho that Arsenal had a different way of functioning with a number of players having come through the youth ranks at Arsenal.
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Chelsea on the other hand will hope they can continue their excellent record against Arsenal under Mourinho with close to a full squad available.
Arsenal defeated the former Premier League champions Manchester City 2 – 1 last season to lift the 2014 Community Shield but this time they’ll face a tougher test in Mourinho’s Chelsea.
“Some people will think it’s just another pre-season game but us players want to go out and win every game we can”, Walcott told the club’s official website.
“I know he is very highly rated over in France so we are delighted to get this deal over the line”. So I think it is more of the same.
“In football you can win or lose or draw”.
“I’m excited to go again”, revealed Terry, who has fond memories of Wembley after winning four FA Cups there in the last nine years.
Therefore, it was extremely surprising that Mourinho agreed to sanction the sale of star goalkeeper Petr Cech to Arsenal this summer. “I’m not anxious. No problem”. But you can never turn down that you can improve.
“He’s the kind of player who’s proved people wrong all of his career – at Porto, at Atletico and even at Monaco before his injury”.
“He’s at the stage of his career, between 33 and 37, where a goalkeeper can be at his peak and he has the desire”.
“He has the desire”.
“I lost twice against Tony Pulis”, said Mourinho, after pausing to think. I do think he is getting cocky though, and cockiness leads to a serious exposure of weaknesses. “It’s important that you’re calm”.
Judging by the Blues schedule, they played against Barcelona in the States two days ago and squeeze in another pre-season game with Fiorentina next week before facing Swansea in the league, it’s fair to assume they could rotate their squad heavily. There’s always been that special tension and we could always handle that pressure. “It’s a position where we’re very strong”.
“Let’s not forget that Chelsea won the championship with a comfortable distance so we have to make our way up”.
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Eric Cantona scored the only hat-trick in the last 23 matches – doing so in 1992 – and added two more in the following years, making him the highest scorer in Community Shield games in this time frame with five goals.
