With the end of the season just around the corner, only one of the five European leagues considered “big” maintains the suspense: the english premier league (Inter champion in Italy, Leverkusen in Germany; Real Madrid has everything cooked in Spain, and PSG in France)where this Saturday there could be definitions when the leader Arsenal and their second team, Manchester City, come out to play on date 36.
Arsenal will seek to defend their leadership from 8:30 (ESPN television) against defender Marcos Senesi’s Bournemouth (4 goals and 4 assists in 28 games). The London team has 80 points, one more than City, but with one more game than those of Julián Álvarez (9 goals and 9 assists in 33 games). On the other hand, Bournemouth is 10th with 48 points and dreams of entering European competitions (the last to qualify is Newcastle, with 53).
At 1:30 p.m. (also on ESPN) it will be City’s turn at home to Wolverhampton. Guardiola’s team hid well the blow suffered in the Champions League, eliminated by Real Madrid in the quarterfinals, and won their next two matches in the Premier League: 4-0 against Brighton and 2-0 against Nottingham Forest.
It will be necessary to see how much strength Wolverhampton can give it, positioned 11th with 46 points and until last date immersed in a terrible streak (six games without wins) that came to an end with a 2-1 win over Luton. It is worth remembering that in the first round of the Premier League, the Wolves beat City 2-1, which had the scoring contribution of Julián.
After this date, at Arsenal has to play against Manchester United (6th with 54) at Old Trafford on Sunday the 12th and Everton (15th with 36) at home on Sunday the 19th. Cityin view of Fulham (13th with 43) and Tottenham (5th with 60) as a visitor, on Saturday the 11th and Tuesday the 14th respectively, and West Ham (9th with 49) at home on Sunday the 19th.
This Saturday’s day will also feature clashes between Brentford (16th with 35 points) and Fulham (13th with 43), Burnley (19th with 24) and Newcastle (7th with 53), and the already relegated SheffieldEdit (20th with 16) with Nottingham (17th with 26).
Third in the table and Liverpool still has little mathematical chance of winning, which will be home to Tottenham on Sunday at 12:30. Alexis Mac Allister’s team has 75 points (five behind Arsenal) but is on the decline, eliminated by Atalanta in the Europa League and getting one point from the last six in the Premier: 0-2 with Everton and 2-2 with West Ham.
Tottenham, with Cuti Romero and Giovani Lo Celsodoes not come much better: 5th with 60 points and three consecutive defeats to move away from the Champions League positions.
Fourth in the table is the Aston Villa (67 points), which this week received a surprising 4-2 home defeat against Olympiakos of Greece in the semi-finals of the Conference League. in this match Draw Martínez did not save, injured, and probably preserved to see if it comes to revenge duel against the Greeks. The Villains will play on Sunday from 10 as visitors to the Brighton by Valentín Barco and Facundo Buonanotte (12th with 44).
Date 36 will close on Monday from 4 p.m. Alejandro Garnacho’s Manchester United (6th with 54) as a visitor to Crystal Palace (14th with 40).
