Liverpool and Manchester City clashed at The King Power Stadium on Saturday night as part of the curtain raiser to the 2022/23 campaign. Clashes in the Community Shield often resemble a friendly with a minor trophy up for grabs. Nobody cares about Liverpool and Manchester City because it’s HAALAND V NUNEZ TIME BABY But Saturday’s game was very competitive as Liverpool and Manchester City put their foot down for the new season. Liverpool took control of the game with Trent Alexander-Arnold’s shot saved in the 21st minute. There was a frantic end to the game as Summer Julian Alvarez capitalized on some trademark sloppy goalkeeping by Adrian to equalise. Darwin Nunez came on with half an hour to go and caused many problems for City. Mohamed Salah’s penalty restored Liverpool’s lead before Nunes completed a fine stoppage-time move to make it 3-1. Reds manager Jurgen Klopp praised his new striker after the game, saying everyone at Liverpool was delighted to see him score: “I think Darwin would have been fine even without scoring the third because the penalty was Milly’s (James Milner) cross and his header,” Klopp said (via Reuters). “You could see it on his face, you could see it on all his team-mates’ faces how happy the boys are for him and that’s a really good sign after the short time he’s been with us. “Probably one of the highlights of the game, as good as we were, was the impact off the bench. Everyone who came in was immediately into the game – very, very, very helpful.” Nunez impressed, but the same cannot be said for Erling Haaland. He made his first competitive appearance for City against Liverpool after moving to the Premier League earlier this summer for £51m plus add-ons. His disappointing afternoon ended in stoppage time as his close-range shot clipped the crossbar and went over. In the long run, this will likely make the prolific striker world, which is a worrying prospect for the rest of the Premier League. Although they can, fans of other clubs mocked Haaland on social media after the Community Shield. Nunez experienced something similar when he lost a Liverpool player earlier in pre-season. Carragher responded (via Twitter) to these “mocking complications”: “Haaland mock collections will be all over the place this week after this hiccup,” Carragher said. “Just like Nunez last week. By clowns who have never kicked a ball in their lives.”