2023-05-01 17:54:48
Monday, May 1, 2023 – 9:52 PM
From Ahmed Zahran.
ABU DHABI, May 1 / WAM / With the continuation of his series of successive victories in the English Football League, Manchester City regained the top spot in the competition table and greatly enhanced his chances of retaining the title, and his Norwegian striker Erling Haaland continued to achieve records in his first season with the team.
And after being away for long periods during the current season from the race for the qualifying places for the European championships, the awakening presented by Liverpool during the last period was enough to return him as a strong competitor for one of these positions.
Manchester City beat Fulham 2-1 yesterday, Sunday, to be the team’s eighth consecutive victory in the competition, which is the team’s tenth, against one draw in the last 11 matches it played in the competition, to regain the lead with 76 points, just one point ahead of Arsenal.
This is the first time that Manchester City has taken the lead since it topped it by goal difference only against Arsenal after beating Arsenal in mid-February.
It is also the first time that Manchester City has topped by at least one point since last November 5, according to the English Premier League.
Despite Arsenal’s ability to regain the lead if it beat Chelsea tomorrow, “Tuesday”, at the end of the 34th round matches, there is still an opportunity for Manchester City to enhance its chances of preserving the title, especially since it has played 32 matches so far, compared to 33 points for Arsenal, in addition to its match against Chelsea tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Haaland continued to set records with Manchester City in his first season with the team; Where he scored his first team goal against Fulham yesterday and raised his score to 34 goals in the top scorer list in the competition, equaling this record that has stood for nearly 3 decades, which is the record for the number of goals scored by any player in one season in the English Premier League.
The number was registered in the name of Andrew (Andy) Cole in the 1993-1994 season and Alan Shearer in the 1994-1995 season, noting that each of the two seasons witnessed 42 rounds, and Haaland had set another record a few days ago by scoring the 33rd goal to be the most player to score the net in one season in the league The Englishman is one of the seasons that witnessed 38 rounds.
Haaland also raised his score to 50 goals in various competitions with Manchester City this season, to be the first player from an English team to reach this barrier in various competitions since 1931.
In addition to the lead race between Manchester City and Arsenal, Liverpool, with its current awakening, ignited the struggle for the qualifying places for the European championships next season.
Liverpool achieved 4 consecutive victories in the last 4 matches it played in the English Premier League, the most recent of which was its precious 4-3 victory over Tottenham yesterday evening, “Sunday” in the 34th round of the competition.
Liverpool took fifth place from Tottenham, after raising its score to 56 points, and Tottenham’s balance froze at 54 points, in sixth place, with only goal difference against Aston Villa.
So far, Manchester City and Arsenal have secured their qualification for the Champions League next season, after they made sure to finish the season in the first four places in the English Premier League.
The struggle is currently taking place between several teams over the other two qualification cards from the English Premier League to the Champions League, as well as the fifth and sixth places that qualify for the European League and the European Conference League.
Newcastle (65 points) and Manchester United (63 points) have the greatest chances to reserve the other two cards to the Champions League, and Liverpool has become their direct competitor after its victories in the last four matches raised its tally to 56 points from 33 matches, compared to 54 points for each of Tottenham and Aston Villa after 34 matches for both.
Manchester United guaranteed participation in the European Conference League competition next season, by winning the English Professional League Cup, but it is striving to finish the current season in one of the first four places in the league to ensure participation in the Champions League instead of the Conference League.
And Liverpool needs to continue its awakening in order to remain in fifth place, which qualifies its owner for the European League, but it needs more than one bump for Manchester United or Newcastle in order to advance to fourth place and participate in the Champions League.
And the failure of Tottenham in the past few weeks helped Liverpool a lot to advance to fifth place; As Liverpool scored 12 full points from the last 4 matches, while Tottenham scored one point from the last 4 matches he played, and Aston Villa scored 7 of the 12 available points in the last 4 matches he played in the competition.
Awad Mukhtar / Ahmed Zahran / Zakaria Mohieldin
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