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Arsene Wenger admits Sunday’s Community Shield victory over Chelsea has given his Arsenal side a huge lift heading into the new season.

The Brazilian shone against Club America, scored against San Jose Earthquakes and helped cement a victory over Barcelona.

Chelsea say manager Jose Mourinho has signed a new four-year contract which will keep him at the club until 2019.

For a number of years, the narrative surrounding Arsenal was that they play attractive football – perhaps too lovely – and lacked the necessary experience, guile and defensive nuance to grind out ugly, tight games against the league’s other top teams.

“That’s obvious”, Mourinho said. We scored the first goal and after that you could see two teams playing well with full concentration, full commitment.

Szczesny, 25, sealed his season-long switch to the Serie A side last month following the arrival of Petr Cech at Arsenal, and the Poland goalkeeper is relishing his opportunity to play for the Giallorossi.

The first London derby of the new season takes place at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday, as Arsenal host West Ham.

While the Community Shield will be an afterthought by the time the major prizes are handed out in May, Terry is such a driven character that the sight of Arsenal’s players lifting the silverware has added fuel to his competitive fire.

Di Maria is known to have struggled to embrace Van Gaal’s methods, while the player’s wife has been unsettled in Manchester since a burglary at the couple’s Cheshire mansion in January.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain would get the first goal of the game, and put Arsenal ahead by doing so.

United paid £59.7million for the Argentinian last summer but less than 12 months later he has left for Paris St Germain.

After United’s 2-0 defeat to PSG in Chicago on Thursday, Laurent Blanc said both clubs were close to striking a deal for the player.

Arsenal youngster Hector Bellerin has expressed his delight at having ended pre-season on an optimistic note by beating Chelsea to lift the Community Shield on Sunday. It was Wenger’s first win over Mourinho in 14 attempts, per Mirror Online’s John Cross.

The goal arrived midway through the first half and to put into context Mourinho’s supremacy over Wenger in recent years, it was the first time Arsenal had scored against these opponents in 506 minutes of play. Still, after 13 failed attempts to defeat Mourinho, the result...

Chelsea regained the Premier League trophy with such ease that Jose Mourinho felt his team’s achievement did not get the recognition it deserved.