Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan was delighted to finish the Community Shield as winners.

City beat Liverpool in a penalty shootout on Sunday.

Gundogan, who scored the opening penalty in City's 5-4 shootout victory, came on as a 61st-minute replacement for David Silva, helping the domestic treble winners to their sixth Community Shield.

Reflecting on City's first honour of 2019/20, he said: "It was a good start. It is always a good feeling to go into the first official game and win it, and win a trophy, so we are obviously very happy about the result.

"It was a tough opponent, the toughest it is possible to get, so we will take that.

"We are not through our preparations so both teams are not 100 per cent, but the game really showed it's tight, that both teams have a lot of quality and if both teams are going to improve it will be even more work to follow us two.

"But I think there will be a couple more contenders, at least, for top spot in the Premier League so it should be an exciting season."