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Liverpool Beats Man City, Lifts 2022 Community Shield

Liverpool drew the first blood of the 2022/2023 season Saturday evening as they defeated Manchester City 3-1 in Saturday’s FA Community Shield reports Prime Business Africa.

New signing Darwin Nunez bought from Benfica for an initial fee of €75 million, made himself an instant fan favourite after capping a lively appearance off the bench with a stoppage time goal to secure the first trophy of the season.

Trent Alexander-Arnold opened the scoring after 21 minutes of action which was the 100th edition of the prestigious match between the winners of the Premier League and the FA Cup.

Erling Haaland disappointed on the occasion with two glit-edge chances missed by the Norwegian.

Manchester City’s new kid on the block Alvarez scored City’s second goal with a fruitutious effort and had to wait for the VAR to confirm that there was no offside before his goal.

New signing Darwin Nunez scored a late winner to hand the Reds the first bragging rights of the season.

Izuchukwu Okosi

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc. In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio. He worked there for 13 years until October 2017. Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch. He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations. Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line. Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.