Premier, last day: City, Chelsea and Newcastle in the Champions League

Manchester City, Chelsea and Newcastle. These are the last three qualified in the Champions League by the Premier, the verdict of that intense sprint that animated the last month of the championship and which has now issued its definitive verdicts. Not without the final surprises, because to separate the Magpies of tonals and companions and the Aston Villa of Emery was the goal difference, with both surprise defeats on the last day, at home with Everton the Newcastle and Manchester with the United the Aston Villa.

the verdicts

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The 6 Premier teams in the Champions League, the first historic time of a championship with so many representatives in the maximum European competition, are Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea, Newcastle and Tottenham as winner of the Europa League (Ko also in the last round, crushed at 4-1 home by Brighton). In the Europa League, with the Crystal Palace winner of the AFA Cup, then the Aston Villa goes. The seventh place that is worth the Conference League is by the Nottingham Forest, which will return to play a continental tournament after 30 years. The British in the cups in 2025-26 will therefore be 9.

The highlight

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Enzo Maresca completed his mission: Chelsea returns to the Champions League. The blues come out winners from the City Ground of Nottingham, from the only direct clash between pretenders to Europe of this last day. In a tense match, checked for a long time by fear (no shot on goal in the first half, first time in 2025 in the premier and third time this season), the difference makes a goal by Levi Colwill at the beginning of the second half, with the defender Bravo to sling on a Neto shot-Cross who had sent off the Sels (with Reya of the Arsenal officially the goalkeeper with more Clean Sheet of 2024-25, 13). The blues, still popped up, then took care to check the game and the result as they rarely happened to have to do this season. The forest tried to the end, but removed a couple of occasions worn by Wood has never managed to make himself dangerous. The City Ground dreamed of the Champions League to close this Favola di Forest season, but in the end he sings happy with this extraordinary vintage that reports Nottingham in Europe after 30 years of waiting. Not bad for a team that started to save yourself. As not bad, the mission of Chelsea is, in advance on the roadmap that the company had given to Maresca when she hired it last summer.

controversy

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It would not be the last day of premier without an arbitration controversy. He arrives from Old Trafford, where the Aston Villa wrecked and says goodbye to a place in the Champions League also because at the end of the first half he remains in ten for the expulsion of Emi Martinez, author of a foul on a clear scoring opportunity. The controversy, however, is for the goal canceled to Morgan Rogers in the 72 ‘, with the result still on 0-0, with the best player in the villa of this year who steals the ball in Bayindir and puts on the goal. The referee whistles a free kick, believing that the United goalkeeper had the control of the ball. “The referee whistled before the ball entered the net, so the episode is not reviewed by the VAR” said the premier in the X profile in which he explains the arbitration decisions. The villa remains the doubt that this decision, not reviewed, cost them another year in the Champions League.

The last record

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Mo Salah has closed his historic season as a best player of the Premier with a new record: the 1-1 goal for Liverpool with Palace brings him to 47 between goals (29) and assist (18) in the season, equaling the historical record of the premier who had set Andy Cole and Alan Shearer in 1993-94 and 1994-95. It is another record that tells the overwhelming power of the Egyptian this season.

the results

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Bournemouth-Leicester 2-0, Fulham-Manchester City 0-2, Ipswich-West Ham 1-3, Liverpool-Crystal Palace 1-1, Manchester United-Aston Villa 2-0, Newcastle-Everton 0-1, Nottingham Forest-Chelsea 0-1, Southampton-Arsenal 1-2, Tottenham-Bighton 1-4, Wolverhampton-Brentford 1-1.