Entering the 35th week of the Premier League, it’s even more exciting, even though the Premier League champions this season will only be contested between The Citizen and The Gunners, but the biggest chance seems to belong to Manchester City. City are 1 point ahead of Arsenal. City has 4 matches remaining, while Arsenal has 3 matches.
Manchester City, which has returned to appear consistently, is the main challenger to win the Premier League trophy for the 2022-2023 season. Never lost in the last 13 matches, after last losing 1-0 at Tottenham Hotspur, with only one draw being held 1-1 at Nottingham Forest, then winning streak in the last 10 matches.
The Citizens have 4 remaining matches, three of which are playing away, on the sidelines of the Champions League semi-final against Madrid, Pep Guardiola’s troops will travel to Merseyside against Everton, then host Chelsea and then travel to Brighton and Brentford headquarters. With performance that continues to improve, getting nine points from four matches is not difficult for Cityzens, the obstacles that might disturb their concentration are the Champions League semifinals and the FA Cup final against Manchester United.
Meanwhile, Arsenal’s calculations on paper are predicted to wipe out their remaining three matches, after having dropped with three draws and one defeat which actually came from competitors, Manchester City. In the last game the Gunners were quite progressive with a 3-1 home win over Chelsea and an away win over Newcastle.
In the remaining three matches, Arsenal have two home games against Brighton and Wolves, and one away against Nottingham Forest. Even though it’s slim, Arsenal certainly hope City slip up in two of their remaining four matches.
The excitement that is also tense is the struggle for the Champions zone position which is currently filled by Newcastle United (3) and Manchester United (4), but their positions are threatened by Liverpool (5), Tottenham (6) and Brighton (7). Newcastle’s defeat to Arsenal in matchday 35, as well as the Red Devils’ successive defeats to Brighton and Westham in MU’s last game meant that The Magpies and Red Devils had to win at least 3 of their last 4 matches.
Newcastle (65 points) has four games remaining with a promising chance of winning, the away game against Leeds United, which is struggling to get out of the relegation zone, doesn’t seem like a difficult match for Eddie Howe’s troops.
Likewise, the two home matches against competitors in the Champions zone Brighton and Leicester City which are the same as Leeds United are threatened with relegation and are playing in the second tier of the English league EFL, not a difficult match for The Magpies. If you can win the maximum points in the three matches mentioned above, then the last match at home to Chelsea will no longer have any effect on The Toons appearing in the Champions League for the first time since the 2002-2003 season.
Meanwhile, Manchester United (63), has one away game and three home games, with an additional nine points MU is guaranteed to be safe in the Champions zone. In MU’s home game, you still have to be extra vigilant, considering that they will face Wolves, Chelsea and Fulham, who are teams that often make their opponents difficult. Meanwhile, for the away game against Bournemouth, Erik ten Hag’s troops must also be vigilant.
Even though Bournemouth are a promoted team, they can make it difficult for big teams, like Liverpool who they beat at home 1-0, as well as Leicester (0-1) and Tottenham Hotspur (2-3) who they beat away.
The toughest competitors for the Toons and Red Devils if they slip up will come from Liverpool (62) with three games remaining The Reds will have no trouble winning all of these matches, especially since Jurgen Klopp’s troops have recently been quite stable by winning all of the last six matches they.
As for Tottenham Hotspur (57) and Brighton Albion (55), although they have a chance, it can be said to be very slim. Tottenham, who have not been able to stabilize even though they have changed coaches, heavy defeats 6-1 to Newcastle and 4-3 to Liverpool have almost dashed their chances of competing in the Champions League, with three remaining matches their maximum points are only 66.
Likewise with Brighton Hove Albion, a humiliating 1-5 defeat to relegation zone team Everton, made their chances of poking into the Champions zone fade away. Even though they still have five matches left, their three away matches are quite tough.
First facing Arsenal who are chasing their PL trophy ambitions, then they will face Newcastle who have been consistent enough to stay on the safe path of the Champions League. The last away match against Aston Villa which was on fire was also not an easy game for Brighton. After exploring the competition at the top, the competition at the bottom is no less exciting. Week 35 match results have made the competition to avoid relegation even more fierce. Apart from Southampton, who have been confirmed to have dropped into the EFL division, Leeds and Leicester are now in danger of accompanying Southampton.
Leeds United (30), who are now one level above Southampton, must work hard to face the remaining three matches, two home and one away. Where the home match for The Peacocks troops will face tough opponents, namely Newcastle and Tottenham. Meanwhile, their away party is also not easy, namely facing West Ham who are also chasing points to avoid relegation.
Leicester City, which once made a surprise by winning the Premier League in the 2015-2016 season, even though it had only been promoted to the main league for two seasons, now has to face a struggle to avoid relegation. The struggle of The Foxes troops was quite tough, namely entertaining Liverpool, then visiting Newcastle and finally hosting West Ham.
Next relegation candidate is Everton (32), after several weeks in the relegation zone, The Toffees opened the fire with a spectacular 5-1 win over host Brighton. The win lifted them straight out of the relegation zone following defeats to bottom rivals Leeds and Leicester.
However, Everton’s position is still far from secure, but at least Sean Dyche’s brilliant victory over Brighton can be a motivation for them to face the remaining three matches against Manchester City at Goodison Park, then travel to Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton Wanderers headquarters and finally host Bournemouth at Goodison Park .
Next, the team that is also struggling to escape relegation is Nottingham Forest (33), although they have just escaped from the relegation zone through a crucial win over fellow bottom team Southampton, Forest’s struggle to survive relegation is going through a steep road.
Forest has three tough games remaining, away to Stamford Bridges against Chelsea, then playing at home to Arsenal, and finally against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park. If Steve Cooper’s troops don’t want to return to playing in the EFL, they must at least win one of the remaining matches while hoping that the team under him fails to gain full points in the last remaining matches.
Who won the Premier League, which team will play in the Champions League and who stayed and who got relegated? Everything was only clearly answered until the last week. Interesting for us to wait.
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