Arsenal’s Calafiori sets 118-year record with fastest-ever Community Shield goal

BREAKING: Arsenal thrash Manchester City 3-0 to win the Community Shield, with Riccardo Calafiori's strike after 23 seconds the fastest goal in the competition's 118-year history.

Twenty-three seconds. That's all Riccardo Calafiori needed to break a record that stood for one hundred and eighteen years.

Fastest goal in Community Shield history, and there's the man wheeling away after scoring it. Arsenal didn't stop there either, they put three past Manchester City without reply and lifted the Shield at Wembley.

City barely got a look. Every time they tried to build, Arsenal were at them, and the pictures tell you who wanted it more. Three nil against Pep Guardiola's side isn't a friendly scoreline, whatever anyone says about August silverware.

And here's what makes it sting for City. A centre-back signed to shore up Arsenal's defence just wrote himself into the record books at the other end, before some fans had found their seats. If this is Arsenal's opening statement for the season, the rest of the league just got a very loud memo.

This is Dave King, reporting for HIT.

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