Congratulations to Crystal Palace for winning this year’s community shield trophy, they have gone against all odds to defeat Liverpool after defeating Manchester City to win the FA cup trophy last season. I must commend Oliver Glasner for a great job with this Palace team and the goalkeeper Dean Henderson for his heroic performance to help Palace achieve this milestone.
This shows that Crystal Palace performance is improving overtime, and they are becoming stronger. They defeated two big clubs in EPL and lifted up the trophy at the end of last season and at the beginning of this season. We need to be on a watch for this club because they might come out with an unexpected performance to surprise us this season. I really love their confidence.
What you said is indeed true. After winning the FA Cup for the first time last season, they have now also lifted the Community Shield trophy for the first time at the start of the season. This is an extraordinary achievement for an underdog team like Crystal Palace.
However, to explain a little about the Community Shield trophy curse, usually when a team wins this trophy, they often perform poorly in the Premier League. But I hope that doesn't happen to Crystal Palace.
And in their first Premier League match of the 2025/26 season, they will face Chelsea. This will be a very tough test for them in the opening week, as Chelsea are a very strong team. However, if Palace can manage a draw in their first match against Chelsea, this will be an incredible motivation for the Palace players to perform even better in the English Premier League.