Fulham, Huddersfield and Cardiff City will all be bidding their goodbyes to the English Premier League on Sunday. Relegation can be a pain in the backside but missing out a Champions League slot hurts more, just ask Manchester United or Arsenal. Chelsea sneaked their way into the top 4 position but largely due to Arsenal’s wobbling towards the end of the season. Liverpool have done their very best to ensure that Pep Guardiola doesn’t walk away with the leeague title as easy as he did last season, when he won it with a 100 points.
Manchester City is on 95 points with one game to go. It has been a title race of the highest quality, with City winning their last 13 league games and Liverpool winning eight in a row. Neither side has lost a league game since January.
With City on 95 points and Liverpool on 94, whoever finishes second is guaranteed to have the highest final points total of any runners-up in English top-flight history.
Realistically Liverpool need to beat seventh-placed Wolves and hope Manchester City drop points against 17th-placed Brighton.
City are looking to become the first team to win the English domestic treble. Pep Guardiola’s side beat Chelsea on penalties in the Carabao Cup final and face Watford in the FA Cup final next Saturday.
The closest Premier League title race ever saw Manchester City beat Manchester United on goal difference in 2012. That remains the only time the lead has changed hands in the ‘as it stands’ table on the last day.
Sergio Aguero’s injury-time winner against QPR denied United the chance to be the first team to start the day second and win the Premier League.
Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah, fit again after missing Tuesday’s famous European victory with a concussion, is looking to win his second consecutive Golden Boot and he leads the way on 22 goals.
But three players have a realistic chance of at least sharing the Golden Boot – with Reds team-mate Sadio Mane, Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero and Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang all on 20 goals.
It is likely to be the lowest top-scoring total since 2010-11 when Dimitar Berbatov and Carlos Tevez shared the Golden Boot with 20 goals each.
We will have the action and drama as it unfolds….