The first championship is here! Liverpool s winning the championship is not a good thing, the community shield curse continues, Crystal Palace is still appealing

Don't wait too long, the new season will begin soon! This weekend, the English Community Shield will be staged, Liverpool and Crystal Palace will compete for the first championship. In a few days, the European Super Cup will also be staged, with Premier League giants Tottenham challenging Paris Saint-Germain. Next weekend, the first round of the Premier League will be launched in full swing, and the long season will soon begin.

Community Shield is regarded as the Super Cup in England, from the Premier League champion to the FA Cup champion, if the same team, the match will be changed to the Premier League champion and runner-up. Although in the minds of many fans, the community shield is actually a friendly match, and it is not even included in the championship calculation. In fact, this is an event with a long history. It was founded in 1908, only three years later than the establishment of Crystal Palace.

At first, Community Shield was a battle between professional league champions and amateur league champions. Manchester United won the first championship by defeating the Queen's Park Rangers, who was still an amateur team at the time, through a rematch. Later, it became a star team, with professional teams and amateur teams forming a team to compete for the championship. It was not until 1974 that it was renamed Charity Shield, held at Wembley Stadium, and changed to a league and cup championship battle. It was forced to rename it as Community Shield in 2002, and its name and competition system are still in use today.

Unlike other events, the Community Shield is not a trophy, but a "shield", so it is named after it. Since the change of name in 2003, there have been only 6 championship winners in the past 22 Community Shields, and finally won the league championship that year, namely Chelsea (2005, 2009), Manchester United (2007, 2008, 2010), and Manchester City (2018). In the past 15 years, Manchester City has been the only team that can break the "curse" of the Community Shield, which is not easy.

Manchester City, which has lost community shields for many years, returned to win the cup by defeating Manchester United by penalty kick last year, but ushered in a slump in the season, and the four consecutive Premier League championships came to an abrupt end. Therefore, some fans think that if Liverpool beat Crystal Palace to win the championship, it may not be a good thing, after all, the curse of the community shield is still continuing. On the other hand, Crystal Palace is different. I believe I am very eager for the champion of Community Shield.

Last season, Crystal Palace defeated Manchester City with one goal in the final, winning the FA Cup championship. It is also the first top event champion since the team was founded, and it has made a historic breakthrough, which is really gratifying. Therefore, as a non-top team, it should be worth celebrating if it can win the Community Shield Championship, and Crystal Palace will not worry about the so-called curse.

Crystal Palace's participation is the first time that the Community Shield has appeared in six years without a Premier League champion team. The last time happened in 2019, when Liverpool participated in the Community Shield, he had not won the Premier League championship yet, and then he won his first championship trophy. Four years ago and nine years ago, Leicester City participated in Community Shield twice and both have won the Premier League championship.

At the same time, Crystal Palace is also the fourth team to participate in the Community Shield, in addition to Leicester City, there are also Wigan 12 years ago and Portsmouth 17 years ago. Therefore, from multiple perspectives, it is indeed not easy for Crystal Palace to participate, which is already a good news for the mid- and lower-stream teams.

However, Crystal Palace is facing a problem. Since it belongs to the same investment group as Lyon, and Lyon has previously confirmed that it does not need to be relegated, the Europa League qualification can be retained. Therefore, UEFA has announced that Crystal Palace cannot participate in the UEFA Cup and can only "relegate" to participate in the UEFA League, while Nottingham Forest will participate in the UEFA Cup.

Soon, Crystal Palace appealed, and the verdict was expected to be announced early next week. If the original verdict is maintained, Crystal Palace can only start from the playoffs of the Europa League, completely losing its qualification for the Europa League and the opportunity to win the Europa League.

For Liverpool, Community Shield may be an optional champion and is also the last chance to run in the lineup. Late next Friday night, Liverpool will start the Premier League opening match, and its opponent is Bournemouth, which means that important European events have officially begun and Slot officially becomes a "sub-grader".

Judging from many warm-up matches, Wilz, Flynnon, Ekitic and Kolkz have performed well, but Endo still plays a guest role in the central defender. It seems that the problems in Liverpool's defense still need to be improved.