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Crystal Palace down Liverpool on penalties to win Communiy Shield
10 Aug 2025

Crystal Palace overcame Premier League champions Liverpool to win the 2025 FA Community Sheild at the Wembley Stadium on Sunday.

Palace forced a shootout after equalizing to 2-2 in normal time.

The FA Cup winners then bagged the shootout 3-2 to earn another piece of silverware.

Justin Devenny scored the winning penalty for the Eagles.

Here's more.

A look at the match stats
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Palace had 14 attempts with 4 shots on target. The Reds managed 12 attempts with 5 of them on target. Liverpool had 60% ball possession and owned an 85% pass accuracy.

Mateta cancels out Ekitike's opener
Goals

Liverpool's new signing Hugo Ekitike opened the scoring in the 4th minute.

Fellow new signings Milos Kerkez and Florian Wirtz did well to progress up to pitch. The ball was played to Ekitike by Wirtz, who created space and scored.

Palace equalized in the 17th minute through Jean-Philippe Mateta, who scored from the penalty spot after Virgil van Dijk fouled Ismaila Sarr.

Frimpong helps Liverpool regain lead
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Jeremie Frimpong, who joined Liverpool from Bayer Leverkusen in the summer, scored his side's 2nd in the 21st minute. His attempted cross saw the ball spin enough to beat Dean Henderson on goal.

Palace get the equalizer through Sarr
2nd half

Liverpool started the 2nd half brightly and Ekitike could have made it 3-1, but the player missed after being unable to guide his header on target.

Moments later, Ekitike missed again after Wirtz had set him up.

In the 62nd minute, Liverpool's Alisson Becker made a fine save from Eberechi Eze.

Palace managed to equalize 15 minutes later through Sarr.

How did the shootout pan out?
Penalties

Mohamed Salah missed the first penalty before Mateta scored his, giving Palace the lead.

Alexis Mac Allister had his shot saved by Henderson with Alisson then stopping Eze.

Cody Gakpo and Sarr both scored before Henderson saved Harvey Eliott's shot.

Sosa then hit the post for Palace with Dominic Szoboszlai scoring for Liverpool.

Devenny then scored the winning penalty for Palace.

Mateta and Sarr shine for the Eagles
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Mateta has raced to 47 goals for Crystal Palace. The in-form striker scored 17 goals for Palace last season in all competitions. Meanwhile, Sarr has 17 goals for Palace. He scored an impressive 12 goals last season.

Unique stats of the contest
Opta stats

For a third consecutive season, the Community Shield has been won by the side that conceded first (Arsenal v Manchester City in 2023, Man City v Manchester United in 2024 & Crystal Palace v Liverpool in 2025 - all winning on penalties).

There were a total of 22 passes in the build up to Liverpool's opener scored by Ekitike and assisted by Wirtz.

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