Good afternoon and welcome to Eurosport's LIVE coverage of the Community Shield match between Chelsea and Manchester City. We'll bring you all the action as it happens at Wembley. Kick off is at 3pm.

Without Kante in the middle of the pitch, Chelsea look lightweight in the face of this possession from Man City. It's too easy for players like Foden to cut through them at will.

Both first choice goalkeepers are missing for these teams this afternoon. Bravo is in goals for Man City and Chelsea are without Courtois, whose future is still up in the air. Caballero plays instead.

How will Chelsea respond to losing that opening goal? They have been second best in the early stages of this match. They are struggling to keep position high up the pitch.

Well, that was easy. Foden just had so much space to gallop into. Chelsea backed off and backed off the youngster as he ran at them. They really needed to close down the playmaker.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! Chelsea 0 Manchester City 1 (13 mins - Sergio Aguero). The opener falls for the Premier League champions! Foden ran with the ball at his feet all the way to the edge of the Chelsea penalty box, passing to Aguero, who dragged the ball on to his left foot and found the bottom corner of the net with a low finish.

City look great down the right side of the pitch. Mahrez gives them something different out there. The Algerian has the ability to cut inside and offer another goal threat for City. Gulp.

It's fair to say that Manchester City have started the better of the two teams here. They are the ones dominating the ball. Chelsea are having to do their best on the counter attack.

This will be a big season for Barkley. He failed to make an impression in the second half of last season after joining Chelsea from Everton. His career is at risk of fizzling out.

There's a start for Foden this afternoon. Most expect the teenager to feature more regularly for Manchester City this season. He's the brightest young English talent since Rooney, apparently.

BERNARDO TO THE BYLINE! There were no takers in the middle. Bernardo got to the box and cut back a cross into the centre of the box, but the pass managed to evade everyone.

It's good to see Mendy back in the Man City team. Of course, he returned for the final game of the season before the summer, but the Frenchman spent much of the campaign out injured.

SANE... WIDE! Another early opportunity for Man City, with Mendy surging forward before playing the ball to Sane. The German lashes his low shot across the face of goal, though.

FIRST MAHREZ CHANCE! City work the ball out to Mahrez on the right side, who has space to gallop into. However, Luiz makes the block from the former Leicester City player.

So here we go. The traditional curtain raiser of the English football season is under way. We'll find out a lot about both these sides this afternoon. This should be a good one.