Arsenal fans hail Mikel Arteta’s genius pre-season move for winning Community Shield after club were brutally trolled

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ARSENAL fans hailed Mikel Arteta’s pre-season focus on penalties – as Wembley shootout joy avenged trolls who attacked the odd strategy.

Many put Sunday’s Community Shield win over Manchester City down to Arteta‘s support for end-of-match spot-kicks on tour in the USA.

Leandro Trossard completes Arsenal’s perfect set of four penalties to win the Community Shield at Wembley[/caption]

Mikel Arteta got the bit between his teeth with pre-season penalties and got his reward with the Gunners’ shootout victory over Man City[/caption]

Leandro Trossard earned the Shield shootout with a deflected equaliser 11 minutes into added time, after Cole Palmer’s brilliant late City opener.

The Gunners then calmly netted all their kicks to win 4-1 on penalties.

Fans immediately homed in on Arsenal’s shootout antics across the pond last month.

One said: “Those pre-season penalty exhibitions turned out to be pretty useful in the end.”

Another posted: “It was deffo Arsenal/Arteta that asked to do Penalty shootouts after the games in USA to prepare themselves for this.”

And a third wrote: “Seems like Arteta’s plan wanting pre season games to have penalties is bearing fruit.”

City keeper Stefan Ortega came nowhere near thwarting Wembley spot-kicks from Martin Odegaard, Trossard, Bukayo Saka and Fabio Vieira.

And many Gunners’ supporters treated the triumph as highly significant.

According to one: “The most important thing for the players is the confidence to beat City.”

“This is just the beginning,” chimed another.

But two fans might have gone slightly over the top with their verdicts.

“Give Fabio Vieira another +5 contract ,” wrote one.

And another, who could just possibly have been a City follower, claimed: “4 rigged penalties.”