Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola praised his players' efforts after their Community Shield defeat to Arsenal.

Cole Palmer had City ahead of 77 minutes before Leandro Trossard struck a 101st minute equaliser to take the game to penalties. Kevin de Bruyne and Rodri missed their spotkicks in the shootout as Arsenal won the traditional curtain raiser.

“My first words, congratulations to Arsenal for winning the Community Shield trophy," Guardiola said.

“We were close. We were good for 25-30 minutes, in the last 15 or 20 minutes of the first half they were better. They had two chances and Stefan did well.

“But second half we were much, much better. We played a really good second half. Our energy from the new players especially players in one- on-one situations, players like Phil, Kevin and Cole.

“We were close but at the end, we couldn't do it and their penalty takers were better than us."

“The team behaved unbelievably," he added. “In the second half, the last minutes, attacking players were there and they pushed a lot and it's normal.

“We are not the NBA that when you finish you have three months off to recover. Not here, especially here. In good seasons or bad seasons it didn't happen.

“You have to adapt and that's why I'm surprised how good we behaved. We faced an extraordinary team. It happened last season and it happened again.

“We were close and we are a little bit disappointed for the final result but it's football.

“If you can't win you can bring minutes to the players and I'm thinking of Friday, when we are going to Burnley to play."