1-0！ The 137-year-old team was promoted to the Premier League and netted 100 million pounds, and the players cried tears of joy and celebrated wildly

Chat about the ball in the middle of the mountain

2024-05-27 05:40Published in Fujian

The 2023/24 Premier League season has come to an end with Manchester City making history by winning an unprecedented quadruple Premier League title. In the FA Cup final, Manchester United beat Manchester City 2-1 to win the title. But there is still an important game in English football, that is, the much-anticipated Premier League promotion play-off final at Wembley Stadium, Leeds United and Southampton competed for the last place to be promoted to the Premier League, and in the end, Smallburne assisted Armstrong to score a solo goal in the first half, Brooks retired injured, and at half-time, Southampton 1-0 Leeds United. In the second half, Daniel James hit the bar, and finally Southampton 1-0 Leeds United returned to the Premier League after one year.

Leeds United finished runners-up in the Champions League, won the English top flight three times, won the FA Cup once and the Community Shield twice, and won the Championship in 2019/20 to promote the Premier League, but in last season's Premier League, Leeds ended up second from bottom and relegated to the Championship. Leeds United finished third in the Championship this season and reached the promotion play-offs, where they eliminated Norwich City 4-0 on aggregate over two legs in the semi-finals to reach the final.

Founded in 1885, Southampton has a longer history than Leeds United, having never won the English top flight and only won the FA Cup once in the 70s. Last season, Southampton finished bottom and were relegated to the Championship. Southampton finished fourth in the Championship this season and eliminated West Bromwich Albion 3-1 on aggregate over two legs home and away in the promotion play-off semi-finals to reach the final.

In the 12th minute of the game, Southampton had a set-piece opportunity on the left, and Smallburne hit the goal directly and was saved by Meslier. In the 23rd minute, Southampton opened the scoring! Smallburne hit a precise through ball down the right, and Armstrong volleyed home with a one-on-one chance to give Leeds 0-1 Southampton. In the 44th minute, Southampton's set-piece from the right flank drove into the penalty area, and Armstrong turned and shot the goal, which was saved by Meslier bravely.

In the second half, it was easy to play again, and in the 48th minute, Lutter broke through to the penalty area on the right and was cleared at the top of the arc and Somerville's shot missed. In the 67th minute, Southampton counter-attacked, and Edozzi smashed into the box from the left and fired slightly wide. In the 83rd minute, Daniel James hit the wall with his teammates in the penalty area on the left side and then hit the crossbar and bounced off the crossbar. Nine minutes of stoppage time in the second half, and in the 94th minute, James received a teammate in the middle and made a long-range shot from the top of the arc that was saved by McCarthy. In the end, Leeds United 0-1 Southampton.

The Premier League is the most commercially successful league in the world, and the TV broadcast cost of each season is the highest among the five major European leagues, and the prize money share of the Premier League this season is as high as about 180 million pounds for the champion Manchester City, and even if it is a relegated team, Sheffield United at the bottom of the table also has a share of more than 100 million pounds, so the relegation of the Premier League and the promotion of the Championship are fiercely competitive every season.

Leicester City and Ipswich are the top two in the Championship this season, and a direct promotion to the Premier League means more than £100 million in revenue, which gives the team the funds to upgrade the squad to suit the pace of the Premier League. Therefore, the fierce competition in the Championship was once jokingly called the 6th league in Europe by fans, which shows how fierce the competition in the Championship is.

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