5-0, 0-2! The Premier League is in chaos: Liverpool collapses, Arsenal throws Manchester City by 4 points, Guardiola is too difficult

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2024-04-25 05:37Published in Fujian

The 2023/24 Premier League season continues, this season's Premier League title race has entered a white-hot stage, Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City are difficult to break the situation of the top three for a while, the three teams alternately lead in the standings, affected by the schedule, Manchester City, which was originally in the lead, has two fewer rounds, and the Gunners Arsenal extended the lead to 4 points with a big win.

The past week has been a mixed blessing for the last three, with Manchester City and Arsenal both knocked out of the Champions League quarter-finals, and Manchester City drew 4-4 with Real Madrid over two legs, but lost to Real Madrid on penalties to defend their Champions League title. At the same time, Arsenal lost to Bayern 2-3 on aggregate over two legs and missed the semi-finals. Liverpool, on the other hand, lost to Atalanta 1-3 on aggregate over two legs in the Europa League quarter-finals and missed the semi-finals. At this point, the remaining fixtures of the top three are free of European ties, and they can concentrate on competing for the Premier League title.

Compared with Arsenal and Liverpool's one-line battle, Blue Moon Manchester City also has the FA Cup task, in the FA Cup semi-finals, Manchester City and Chelsea with fatigue at Wembley Stadium, and finally with the B seat of the stunner goal, Manchester City eliminated Chelsea, two consecutive seasons to the FA Cup final, will compete with Manchester United for the FA Cup, Guardiola to defend the FA Cup. Manchester City's match with Tottenham Hotspur has been postponed to 15 May due to their participation in the FA Cup.

Arsenal suffered two consecutive defeats in the Champions League and the Premier League, Arteta quickly adjusted, winning consecutive victories over Wolves and Chelsea, especially at home to sweep Chelsea 5-0, reversing the decline of Champions League elimination, thus temporarily leaving Manchester City four points behind and throwing the pressure on Manchester City. However, the remaining fixtures in Arsenal's schedule are still the most difficult of the top three, with Arsenal away to local rivals Tottenham, who are fighting for a top-four finish, so this is a north London derby for both sides, and in the penultimate round, Arsenal travel to Old Trafford to face arch-rivals Manchester United.

Liverpool's experience is similar to Arsenal's, in that they suddenly suffered two consecutive defeats in Europe and the Premier League, giving up the title race to Manchester City. After being knocked out of the Europa League, Liverpool will focus on the Premier League for the remainder of their fixtures, with Liverpool away to city rivals Everton.

In the game, in the first half, Liverpool's defense made collective mistakes, Konate made an own goal for Branthwaite, Nunez missed a single knife, Liverpool temporarily 0-1 Everton, and in the second half, McNeil assisted Calvert-Lewin from a corner kick, Luis Dias hit the post, and finally Liverpool 0-2 Everton, three points away from the top Arsenal, and one point ahead of Manchester City, which has two games less.

The biggest difficulty for Liverpool in the remaining fixtures will be back-to-back matches in the 36th and 37th rounds, with a home game against Tottenham in the round of 36 and a 2-1 defeat away to Tottenham in the first leg. In the 37th round, Liverpool will challenge the dark horse Aston Villa away.

City have six games to go, and the most difficult game for City is the replay away to Tottenham on 15 May, with Pep Guardiola's side losing all of their league games away to Tottenham in the past four seasons without scoring a single goal, but in the fourth round of this season's FA Cup, Manchester City beat Tottenham 1-0 away to advance, with Ake scoring the winner.

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