Will Manchester City play to strengths of Erling Haaland after Liverpool loss?

Andriy Shevchenko, it might be remembered, seemingly had a very good Community Shield in 2006. He’d just joined Chelsea for £31million. Nobody seemed in any doubt that this was a transfer initiated by the owner Roman Abramovich and there were questions right from the start about how he and Didier Drogba could play together and doubts as to whether José Mourinho wanted him, but after a 2-1 defeat in which he scored Chelsea’s goal and was by some way their most potent attacking presence, the assumption was that he would turn out to be an upgrade on Drogba, who ended up stuck on in the right.

As it turned out, Drogba hit 20 goals for the first time in the Premier League that season while Shevchenko struggling with fitness issues, never settled, scored just nine times in two seasons before returning on loan to Milan; his acquisition a background detail in the cooling relationship between Mourinho and Abramovich.

Let’s not to get too carried away by the Community Shield. The type of coach who likes to tot up their trophies to make points to a sceptical public may take it seriously (when they win) but fundamentally it’s just another pre-season friendly, of significance only when things go wrong, whether that is Billy Bremner and Kevin Keegan scrapping in 1974 and so providing an insight into the strained world of the Leeds dressing-room under Brian Clough, or an unshaven Mourinho turning up in a sloppy tracksuit to oversee the loss of his long unbeaten record against Arsène Wenger in 2015.

It may be this is a Community Shield, the first ever played in July and the first played in Leicester since 1971, rapidly forgotten, a tiny dot in the great and ever-expanding galaxy of football of note largely to Darwin Núñez, who came off