Arsenal beat Chelsea to lift Community Shield

Arsenal beat Chelsea 1-0 to lift the Community Shield for a second season in a row in a match played at Wembley on Sunday.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain score the winner with a powerful drive into the top corner with his weaker left foot in the 24th minutes to give the Gunners their first win in 506 matches,a run that stretches to 2007.

Ramires headed wide unmarked from Loic Remy’s cross as Chelsea failed to hit the target before the break.

Eden Hazard skied a chance over the bar in the second half before Oscar’s free-kick was parried wide by Arsenal debutant Peter Cech.

It was the first time the former Chelsea goalkeeper had been called into action, after 68 minutes, and soon after he comfortably held on to Kurt Zouma’s header.

Arsenal went close late on through Santi Cazorla and Kieran Gibbs in a match where both sides looked rusty a week ahead of their Premier League opener.

The win is Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger’s first ever against Jose Mourinho in 13 attempts.

In February 2014 the Chelsea boss called his opposite number a “specialist in failure” in response to Wenger’s claims that Premier League bosses are playing down their title chances because they “fear to fail”.