2007 FA COMMUNITY SHIELD

The '2007 FA Community Shield' was a football match played on 5 August 2007 between 2006-07 Barclays Premier League champions Manchester United and 2006-07 FA Cup winners Chelsea. Manchester United won the game 3-0 on penalties, after the match finished 1-1 after 90 minutes. Ryan Giggs opened the scoring in the 35th minute, before Florent Malouda equalised just before half-time.
The match then went to penalties, in which Chelsea went first. Edwin van der Sar saved Chelsea's first three penalties, leaving Wayne Rooney with the chance to win the match for United.
It was the first Community Shield to be played at the new Wembley Stadium. Manchester United and Chelsea also contested the last Community Shield (then the Charity Shield) to be played at Wembley, seven years before, with Chelsea winning the match 2-0.

Contents

Match details

Match statistics

First half

Second half

Overall

See also

External links

Match details

'CHELSEA:' GK '1' Petr Čech RB '2' Glen Johnson CB '6' Ricardo Carvalho CB '22' Tal Ben Haim LB '3' Ashley Cole DM '5' Michael Essien CM '12' John Obi Mikel CM '8' Frank Lampard (c) RW '24' Shaun Wright-Phillips LW '15' Florent Malouda CF '10' Joe Cole 'Substitutes:' GK '29' Carlo Cudicini GK '40' Hilário DF '39' Harry Worley MF '9' Steve Sidwell MF '19' Lassana Diarra FW '14' Claudio Pizarro FW '17' Scott Sinclair 'Manager:' José Mourinho

'MANCHESTER UNITED:' GK '1' Edwin van der Sar RB '6' Wes Brown CB '5' Rio Ferdinand CB '15' Nemanja Vidić LB '27' Mikaël Silvestre RM '7' Cristiano Ronaldo CM '22' John O'Shea CM '16' Michael Carrick LM '3' Patrice Evra SS '11' Ryan Giggs (c) CF '10' Wayne Rooney 'Substitutes:' GK '29' Tomasz Kuszczak DF '19' Gerard Piqué DF '26' Phil Bardsley MF '17' Nani MF '24' Darren Fletcher MF '30' Lee Martin MF '33' Chris Eagles 'Manager:' Sir Alex Ferguson

'MATCH OFFICIALS' ★ Assistant referees: ★ ★ Darren Cann (Norfolk) ★ ★ Martin Yerby (Kent) ★ Fourth official: Chris Foy (Merseyside)'MAN OF THE MATCH' ★ Ashley Cole (Chelsea)

'MATCH RULES' ★ 90 minutes. ★ Penalty shoot-out if scores level. ★ Seven named substitutes ★ Maximum of 6 substitutions.

Match statistics

First half

	Chelsea	Manchester United
Total shots	3	6
Shots on target	2	2
Ball possession	52%	48%
Corner kicks	1	3
Fouls committed	8	9
Offsides	1	0
Yellow cards	1	1
Red cards	0	0

Second half

	Chelsea	Manchester United
Total shots	2	4
Shots on target	0	2
Ball possession	50%	50%
Corner kicks	4	5
Fouls committed	6	6
Offsides	2	1
Yellow cards	2	0
Red cards	0	0

Overall

	Chelsea	Manchester United
Total shots	5	10
Shots on target	2	4
Ball possession	52%	48%
Corner kicks	5	8
Fouls committed	14	15
Offsides	3	1
Yellow cards	3	1
Red cards	0	0

See also

★ Premier League 2006-07

★ FA Cup 2006-07

External links

★ Community Shield 2007 at TheFA.com