Crowd invades, City beat Chelsea to lift Premier League trophy

Premier League

With a goal from Argentine Julian Álvarez, Manchester City beat Chelsea in the last home game of the season and rise

Manchester (GB) – Entering the field with the title mathematically confirmed did not prevent Manchester City from overcoming Chelsea this Sunday (5/21) at the Etihad Stadium, for the 37th round of the English Premier League.

The favorable score of 1 x 0 served to crown the celebration of the three-time English champions squad and their fans, who said goodbye to the games at the Etihad Stadium this season with a beautiful party, with the right to invade the lawn after the final whistle.

With the victory, Manchester City reached 88 points. Pep Guardiola’s team had the title confirmed last Saturday (20/5), with the defeat of vice-leader Arsenal to Nottingham Forest. This is the ninth English title in the entire history of Manchester City, the seventh in the Premier League era and the fifth in the last six seasons, these under the command of Pep Guardiola. The club equals Everton as the fourth biggest national champion, behind only Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal.

City are the fifth club in English football history to win three consecutive top-flight titles, after Huddersfield Town (1924-1926), Arsenal (1933-1935), Liverpool (1982-1984) and Manchester United (1999-2001). and 2007-2009). Never in history has a team won the tournament four times in a row.

The Manchester club’s attack scored 93 goals and conceded 31 so far in the competition. At the moment, City have the best attack and the best defense. It was also this season that Erling Haaland scored the most goals in a single Premier League season with 36.

This was Guardiola’s 12th title as manager of the English club. Considering other jobs, the Spaniard has the incredible achievement of having won the national league in 11 of the 14 seasons he played as a coach, taking into account also the jobs in Germany, for Bayern Munich, and in Spain, for Barcelona.

Triple Crown?
Manchester City can still win two more titles this season. In addition to a possible unprecedented Champions League trophy, City will play the FA Cup final against arch-rivals Manchester United on June 3. The final of the continental tournament will be against Internazionale, a week later. In all, there are four games left for the end of the season for the blue Manchester team, two for the English Championship, against Brighton and Brentford, both away from home.

The game
Guardiola took advantage of the early confirmation of the title to place several young players and reserves as starters in the match. City started dominant and it didn’t take long for them to open the scoring. Chelsea missed the ball, young Palmer made the connection with Julian Alvarez, who dominated and hit hard with no chances for goalkeeper Kepa.

At one point, Frank Lampard’s team also decided to go to the game. More offensively, Chelsea came very close to equalizing with a header by young Gallagher, who caught the left crossbar of the opposing goal. Chelsea also came back from the break. Lewis Hall and Sterling nearly leveled the match but failed to overcome City’s defence.

As Chelsea tried to score a stamp at the fan party at the Etihad Stadium, the stands shook as time ticked by. In addition, there was still emotion with submissions from the London team, but the score of 1 persisted until the final whistle.

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