Chelsea 1-3 Manchester United: Boss Carlo Ancelotti wants his double-winning Blues side to start their season with aplomb against the Premier League runners-up in Sunday's Wembley showpiece
Sir Alex Ferguson, however, says he is treating the Community Shield game as another run-out before the league season, though against opposition he knows he will have to get the better of in the coming year
Between Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole, John Terry, Florent Malouda and Nicolas Anelka, no-one at Chelsea had a World Cup to remember. Their French duo both start at Wembley with Didier Drogba on the bench after surgery
Manchester United's pre-season preparations included an open training session at Old Trafford and games in the USA and Ireland, with Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen starting at Wembley
TV presenter and Lampard's partner Christine Bleakley is among the mostly-full crowd at Wembley, with sections of both fans booing the opposition's England players
The game begins with both teams packing the midfield though early chances fall to both teams through Rooney, Malouda, Antonio Valencia, Paul Scholes and Branislav Ivanovic
The jeering from the fans and the tempo of the football settle down as both teams seek to keep possession with Owen dropping off and Rooney chasing back for the Red Devils, and Chelsea playing two holding midfielders
With Michael Ballack returning to Germany and Joe Cole off to Liverpool, the Londoners' midfield gets a welcome boost with the return of Michael Essien for his first competitive game since injuring his knee in January
United go ahead on 41 minutes through Antonio Valencia, who has the better of Cole throughout the first half, set up by Rooney's first-time, pin-point pass
Sir Alex swaps Rooney and Owen for Dimitar Berbatov and new signing Javier Hernandez at half time, the 22-year-old Mexican in particular exciting the United fans, given his World Cup goals against France and Argentina
Chelsea bring on Daniel Sturridge and Drogba, so pivotal last season, but the difference between the sides can be seen between Essien, who looks rusty, and Paul Scholes, whose passing game runs the midfield
United get a second goal, again from the right as Valencia lays the ball on for Hernandez, who trips at the vital moment only for the ball to ricochet off his face and in to an empty net
Perhaps even more encouraging for the Red Devils is the immediate fluency between Hernandez and Berbatov, both players running off each other in to space and reading each other's movement perfectly
Sturridge is Chelsea's only bright spark, making things happen and brilliantly denied by Edwin van der Sar, though one of the Dutchman's saves falls to Salomon Kalou to pull a goal back
Roared on by their fans and spurred on by Sturridge, Chelsea search for an equaliser, leaving a gap for Berbatov to latch on to Nani's ball and score with an expert lob, a great finish to a fine second half performance
Nemanja Vidic, captain on the game in the absence of Rio Ferdinand with a cameo alongside him from Chris Smalling, lifts the Community Shield after a well-contested and well-attended game
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