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Premiership and European champions Manchester United face last seasons FA Cup winners Portsmouth
today in the Community Shield match at Wembley. Man United will be without Cristiano Ronaldo who is
still recovering from his ankle injury, whilst Wayne Rooney, Owen Hargreaves and Michael Carrick
are all unlikely to feature.
After a dull and uninspiring Charity Shield match in which Manchester United and Portsmouth drew
0-0 after 90 minutes, the game was finally put out of its misery with a penalty shoot-out, with
United winning 3-1. Man United dominated parts of the game but were unable to break through, with
Darren Fletcher guilty of missing their [.
Former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has fired a shot at his old striker Andriy Shevchenko by saying
that he failed at Chelsea because he was too used to being treated like a prince at AC Milan.
Mourinho, now manager at Inter, wasted no time in making his comments about his City rival's new
signing.
It's strange to think that this time last year United were facing Chelsea in the Charity Shield (I
realise the name has changed, but I won't be able to keep it up all article without reverting, so
just go with me here) following our league title win and Chelsea's FA Cup win. I was at that [...]
Soccer is coming back in many of the leagues throughout Europe. The English Premier League had a
rather slow start with the Charity Shield game between Manchester United and Portsmouth, which
ended 0-0 and then went to penalty kicks where Man U won easily.
In France, Lyon got off the a strong start, with Karim Benzema scoring 2 goals to lead them to a
3-0 victory over Toulouse.
Manchester United beat Portsmouth on penalties to win their 13th Community Shield, quite how it
went to penalties, I don't know. Yesterday the Community Shield (Charity Shield) was celebrating
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Manchester United took their second consecutive Community Shield trophy on penalties after a 0-0
draw with Portsmouth at Wembley. The Community Shield (formerly known as the Charity Shield) pits
the defending Premier League champion and FA Cup winner and Man United repeated last year's success
at the spot, the previous version finishing 1-1 in their match with Chelsea.
