It seemed fitting that an empty-feeling, but still impressively intense Community Shield should end with a penalty shootout. The game finished 1-1 after 90 minutes. Enter Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, king of the crowd-free Wembley Stadium.
Aubameyang had scored the game’s opening goal an hour and a half earlier on a grizzly grey afternoon. That made it five in his past three games at the locked-down national stadium, all of those goals coming against the combined might of Manchester City, Chelsea and now Liverpool.
Continue reading…It seemed fitting that an empty-feeling, but still impressively intense Community Shield should end with a penalty shootout. The game finished 1-1 after 90 minutes. Enter Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, king of the crowd-free Wembley Stadium.Aubameyang had scored the game’s opening goal an hour and a half earlier on a grizzly grey afternoon. That made it five in his past three games at the locked-down national stadium, all of those goals coming against the combined might of Manchester City, Chelsea and now Liverpool. Continue reading…