Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta will be not getting too carried away with themselves if either walks away from Wembley with the trophy under their arm on Sunday.
For them this game will be all about building match fitness and tinkering with formations and personnel ahead of the start of the season.
Last year's final between Liverpool and Manchester City proved you can never read too much into the result of the Community Shield.
The men from Merseyside ran out 3-1 victors then and Darwin Nunez stole the show in the battle of the new boys up against Erling Haaland.