The Premier League 2023-2024 The curtain now falls on the perfect scenario for any football fan: with the title to be decided. Two teams are competing for it: Manchester City and Arsenal. The ‘sky blues’, the leaders with a two-point advantage, will be singing their praises if they beat a West Ham side who have nothing to play for at the Etihad and become the first team to be crowned champions of England by fourth time in a row. Furthermore, they would do so in six of the last seven editions, all with Pep Guardiola on the bench. Now he can’t have a goal Edersonwith a fissure in an eye socket, and Kevin de Bruyne This is doubt. Both retired on Tuesday during a crucial 0-2 draw against Tottenham.
But the Arsenal of Mikel Arteta He has not come this close to the title since he last achieved it in 2004 under Arsène Wenger and will be keen to make the most of his chances to end City’s hegemony. To be champions the ‘gunners’ are forced to win at the Emirates to Everton, with a permanent guarantee, and expect a draw or defeat of the City.
Everything adds up to it very tight finish and Arteta personally lost his respected David Moyes, the West Ham coach who signed him for Everton when the Basque was a player, to give him a boost. The Scottish coach said goodbye today to ‘hammers‘, which in December they managed to win 0-2 at the Emirates!
This is the outcome of exciting match which City and Arsenal kept after Liverpool fell by the wayside in the last minute. The Premier League has decided to bring the trophy to the two stadiums where the title is decided, although its president Richard Masters is in Emirates to avoid the situation of having to give it to City, the club that the Premier himself accused of 115 financial irregularities between 2009 and 2018.
Since its first edition in the 1992-1993 season, there have been only ten times premier It was decided, as it is today, on the last day.
History, in favor of the City
And with all the equipment He came as a leader and became a champion.. The city itself starred in the last four precedents: in 2012 (with an incredible comeback against QPR (3-2) thanks to added goals from Edin Dzeko and ‘Kun’ Agüero), in 2014 (which with a 2-0 win at West Ham ), in 2019 (1-4 against Brighton) and in 2022 (with another comeback at the end (3-2) against Aston Villa with doubles from Ikay Gündogan and Rodri ).
But, before the premierthe last group to make a ‘sorpasso’ on the last day was theArsenal! in 1989 with Michael Thomas’s famous goal in Anfield in added time (0-2) leaving Liverpool without the title with both teams tied in the table. The season is rich in surprises in England. Now, last chapter.
IMPORTANT ALIGNMENTS
MANCHESTER CITY-WEST HAM
Etihad Stadium, 5:00 pm
Manchester City: Stefan Ortega Walker, Akanji, Dias, Gvardiol; Rodrigo H., Kovacic; Bernardo Silva, De Bruyne, Foden; Haaland.
West Ham: areola; Coufal, Zouma, Ogbonna, Emerson Palmieri; Soucek, Edson Alvarez; Bowen, Kudus, Lucas Paqueta; Michael Antonio.
Referee: John Brooks
ARSENAL-EVERTON
Emirates Stadium, 17:00
Arsenal: David Raya; Ben White, Saliba, Gabriel Magalhaes, Tomiyasu; Martin Odegaard, Thomas Partey, Declan Rice; Bukayo Saka, Havertz, Trossard.
Everton: Pickford; Coleman, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Ashley Young; Garner, Onana, Gueye, McNeil; Doucouré, Calvert-Lewin.
Referee: Michael Oliver
Source: La Verdad
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