Man City vs. Arsenal Bet Builder Tips: Three-pronged approach makes appeal on Sunday

The summer break is officially over as the Football League commences this weekend, also meaning it is time for the return of the Community Shield. Manchester City will face Arsenal at Wembley. 

We’ve combined out best Bet Builder tips for the occasion, which you can read all about below, with the prices quoted from Irish firm Boyle Sports.

Manchester City completed a historic treble last season, proving that they are quite simply, the best club side on the planet! Pep Guardiola remains as hungry as ever for success and he will be hoping they can perform a little better in this game than 12 months ago, when they were beaten 3-1 by Liverpool. 

The 2022/23 campaign was also a memorable one for Arsenal who made drastic progress under Mikel Arteta and fell just short of claiming their first league title since 2004. The Gunners have bolstered their midfield with the addition of Declan Rice and remain the second-favourites in the Premier League outright market for the season ahead. 

In terms of Match Result betting for the Community Shield, City are unsurprisingly odds-on at 3/4. The draw is chalked up at 3/1, while a win for Arsenal in 90 minutes is on show at 10/3. Looking at the ‘To Lift the trophy market’ and City can be backed at 2/5, with Arsenal out at 7/4.

The Community Shield returns to Wembley this year after being played at The King Power stadium last summer due to the Lionesses playing at the home of football in the European Championships.

Over the last few years we have had several covid-interupted campaigns, as well as a winter World Cup last time out which distorted the regular domestic campaign. It was quite obvious that Pep Guardiola was preparing his team to be at full fitness for the back end of what would be a grueling campaign. This was evident with a lack of fitness in this game 12 months ago when they were beaten by Jurgen Klopp’s men.

With this being the first ‘normal’ season in a while, we believe Guardiola will have his side primed and ready to go on Sunday. We are therefore backing them to win the game inside 90 minutes to kick-off our Bet Builder on Sunday. 

Next up we are backing that man Erling Haaland to get his name on the scoresheet. Some punters had the audacity to suggest that may struggle in his first season in the top-flight after his performance in the Community Shield.

The Norwegian proved his minimal amount of doubters wrong, setting a new record for the most goals in a 38-game Premier League season, hitting the back of the net a remarkable 52 times in all formats. Haaland looks raring to go for the new campaign and we are backing him to notch his first against Arsenal on Sunday. 

Community Shield contests can often be low scoring affairs, with a slower tempo and often more of a pre-season friendly vibe. Prior to last season’s game between City and Liverpool, all of the five of the last Community Shield games had seen Under 2.5 goals scored between the two sides.

Again taking last year out of the equation and all of the last nine Community Shield matches have featured Under 3.5 goals. We’ll be adding this as our final selection to our Bet Builder on Sunday, which takes us up to a very backable 16/5,