Crystal Palace Beat Liverpool On Penalties To Win Community Shield
FA Cup winners Crystal Palace Sunday defeated Premier League champions Liverpool 3-2 on penalties to lift the 2025 Community Shield, following a thrilling 2-2 draw at Wembley.
The win coming 85 days after their FA cup victory over Manchester City is the team’s first ever Community Shield game in the club’s history.
Goals from Hugo Ekitiké and Jeremie Frimpong and an impressive performance from Florian Wirtz had looked like being enough to seal a narrow victory over Crystal Palace in the Community Shield as Arne Slot’s summer signings made an instant impact for the reigning Premier League champions.
But even with the possibility that they could still add Alexander Isak to the array of attacking talent already on the books, Oliver Glasner’s well-drilled side showed that their new-look defence is fallible and Palace deserved to take the game to penalties after an equaliser from Ismaïla Sarr.
It was substitute Justin Devenny who sealed victory for the south London club after Mohamed Salah, Alexis Mac Allister and Harvey Elliott all missed in the shootout. For the FA Cup winners, who contested this occasion for the first time in their history, it was another moment to savour as they await the outcome of their appeal to the court of arbitration for sport against their demotion from the Europa League, which is due to be announced on Monday.
The Community Shield is traditionally played between the Premier League Champions and the FA winners to herald the Premier League season.
