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Premier League final day: Tottenham 2-2 Everton, Manchester United 0-2 Cardiff and more – as it happened
Manchester City retain the title, leaving Liverpool second with a mammoth 97 points, while Chelsea pipped Spurs to third place and Watford’s Christian Kabasele got a red card that means he’ll miss the cup final.
Sun 12 May 2019 13.02 EDT
First published on Sun 12 May 2019 08.01 EDT- Vincent Kompany dances his way to the trophy and launches it above his head!
- Full-time: Burnley 1-3 Arsenal
- Full-time scores
- MANCHESTER CITY ARE CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND AGAIN!
- Full-time: Liverpool 2-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers
- GOAL! Fulham 0-4 Newcastle United (Rondon, 89)
- GOAL! Liverpool 2-0 Wolves (Mane, 81)
- GOAL! Spurs 2-2 Everton (Eriksen, 75)
- GOAL! Spurs 1-2 Everton (Tosun, 72)
- GOAL! Crystal Palace 4-3 AFC Bournemouth (King, 73)
- GOAL! Watford 1-3 West Ham (Arnautovic, 71)
- GOAL! Brighton 1-4 Man City (Gundogan, 72)
- GOAL! Burnley 1-2 Arsenal (Barnes, 65)
- GOAL! Crystal Palace 4-2 AFC Bournemouth (Van Aanholt, 65)
- GOAL! Burnley 0-2 Arsenal (Aubameyang, 63)
- GOAL! Fulham 0-3 Newcastle (Schar, 61)
- GOAL! MAN CITY ARE GOING TO BE CHAMPIONS! Brighton 1-3 Man City (Mahrez, 63)
- GOAL! Southampton 1-1 Huddersfield Town)Pritchard, 56)
- GOAL! Crystal Palace 3-2 AFC Bournemouth (Ibe, 56)
- GOAL! Burnley 0-1 Arsenal (Aubameyang, 52)
- GOAL! Manchester United 0-2 Cardiff City (Mendez-Laing, 54)
- RED CARD! JOSE HOLEBAS IS SENT OFF AND WILL MISS THE CUP FINAL
- GOAL! Watford 1-2 West Ham (Deulofeu, 46)
- Half-time scores
- GOAL! Crystal Palace 3-1 Bournemouth (Lerma, 45)
- GOAL! Southampton 1-0 Huddersfield Town (Redmond, 41)
- GOAL! Watford 0-2 West Ham (Lanzini, 39)
- GOAL! Brighton 1-2 Man City (Laporte, 38)
- GOAL! Crystal Palace 2-0 AFC Bournemouth (Batshuayi, 32)
- GOAL! Brighton 1-1 Man City Aguero, 28)
- AAAARGGGGGH! GOAL! Brighton 1-0 Manchester City (Murray, 26)
- GOAL! Crystal Palace 1-0 AFC Bournemouth (Batshuayi, 24)
- GOAL! Manchester United 0-1 Cardiff City (Mendez-Laing pen, 23)
- Penalty to Cardiff!
- GOAL! Watford 0-1 West Ham (Noble, 15)
- GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Wolves (Mane, 17)
- GOAL! Fulham 0-2 Newcastle United (Perez, 11)
- GOAL! Fulham 0-1 Newcastle United (Shelvey, 9)
- GOAL! Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Everton (Dier, 4)
- Southampton v Huddersfield Town
- Leicester City v Chelsea
- Watford v West Ham United
- Fulham v Newcastle United
- Brighton & Hove Albion v Manchester City
- Crystal Palace v AFC Bournemouth
- Manchester United v Cardiff City
- Burnley v Arsenal
- Liverpool v Wolverhampton Wanderers
- Tottenham Hotspur v Everton
- Preamble
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- Vincent Kompany dances his way to the trophy and launches it above his head!
- Full-time: Burnley 1-3 Arsenal
- Full-time scores
- MANCHESTER CITY ARE CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND AGAIN!
- Full-time: Liverpool 2-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers
- GOAL! Fulham 0-4 Newcastle United (Rondon, 89)
- GOAL! Liverpool 2-0 Wolves (Mane, 81)
- GOAL! Spurs 2-2 Everton (Eriksen, 75)
- GOAL! Spurs 1-2 Everton (Tosun, 72)
- GOAL! Crystal Palace 4-3 AFC Bournemouth (King, 73)
- GOAL! Watford 1-3 West Ham (Arnautovic, 71)
- GOAL! Brighton 1-4 Man City (Gundogan, 72)
- GOAL! Burnley 1-2 Arsenal (Barnes, 65)
- GOAL! Crystal Palace 4-2 AFC Bournemouth (Van Aanholt, 65)
- GOAL! Burnley 0-2 Arsenal (Aubameyang, 63)
- GOAL! Fulham 0-3 Newcastle (Schar, 61)
- GOAL! MAN CITY ARE GOING TO BE CHAMPIONS! Brighton 1-3 Man City (Mahrez, 63)
- GOAL! Southampton 1-1 Huddersfield Town)Pritchard, 56)
- GOAL! Crystal Palace 3-2 AFC Bournemouth (Ibe, 56)
- GOAL! Burnley 0-1 Arsenal (Aubameyang, 52)
- GOAL! Manchester United 0-2 Cardiff City (Mendez-Laing, 54)
- RED CARD! JOSE HOLEBAS IS SENT OFF AND WILL MISS THE CUP FINAL
- GOAL! Watford 1-2 West Ham (Deulofeu, 46)
- Half-time scores
- GOAL! Crystal Palace 3-1 Bournemouth (Lerma, 45)
- GOAL! Southampton 1-0 Huddersfield Town (Redmond, 41)
- GOAL! Watford 0-2 West Ham (Lanzini, 39)
- GOAL! Brighton 1-2 Man City (Laporte, 38)
- GOAL! Crystal Palace 2-0 AFC Bournemouth (Batshuayi, 32)
- GOAL! Brighton 1-1 Man City Aguero, 28)
- AAAARGGGGGH! GOAL! Brighton 1-0 Manchester City (Murray, 26)
- GOAL! Crystal Palace 1-0 AFC Bournemouth (Batshuayi, 24)
- GOAL! Manchester United 0-1 Cardiff City (Mendez-Laing pen, 23)
- Penalty to Cardiff!
- GOAL! Watford 0-1 West Ham (Noble, 15)
- GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Wolves (Mane, 17)
- GOAL! Fulham 0-2 Newcastle United (Perez, 11)
- GOAL! Fulham 0-1 Newcastle United (Shelvey, 9)
- GOAL! Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Everton (Dier, 4)
- Southampton v Huddersfield Town
- Leicester City v Chelsea
- Watford v West Ham United
- Fulham v Newcastle United
- Brighton & Hove Albion v Manchester City
- Crystal Palace v AFC Bournemouth
- Manchester United v Cardiff City
- Burnley v Arsenal
- Liverpool v Wolverhampton Wanderers
- Tottenham Hotspur v Everton
- Preamble
It’s fair to point out that he’s had the best squad of players in every one of those wins, and by far - but still, an indisputable and absolute genius. There’s no one better at extracting the most from elite talent.
Bernardo Silva is extremely happy, and Toure congratulates him on a brilliant season. He’s a sensational player, and should play in the middle every week. Anyway, he says they’re still annoyed about going out of Europe, and that they did wonder if they could do it, post-Newcastle. Fourteen straight wins says they could.
He also says this is the toughest title his team have won, the Redknapp asks him about golf - it’s absolutely hilarious I can tell you - and puts an arm around him. What an honour.
After losing to Newcastle, he didn’t think his team were done, and Liverpool then dropped points at home to Leicester and seven points was doable.
A meeting of minds: Jamie Redknapp is with Pep Guardiola. He thanks Liverpool for pushing them to improve, extols his team’s points aggregate over the past two seasons. he knew his team couldn’t drop any points in the run-in, and says that they’ve changed English football.
“This is exactly what I came to this club for,” says Raheem Sterling. Quite.
The City players give Guardiola the bumps. “He starts everything off,” says Kompany. He then says he’s “desperate, desperate, desperate” to win the FA Cup (after a night tonight) but that he doesn’t know if he’s staying another season. City would be mad to lose him, if he’s up for hanging about; “he’s staying,” says Yaya Toure, and the two take a selfie.
City players and manager pose in a big group with the trophy, then Kompany goes over for a word with Sky. He says this season was the most draining title he’s won because of the need to win every game. He says City are now one of English football’s greatest-ever sides and he’s very proud of that.
Wonderwall is played over the tannoy, and there’s Noel Gallagher lapping it up. What a feeling that must be!
Leroy Sane pours fizz all over Yaya Toure, and for a second you wonder if it’s going to cost him a burst mooth, but then they embrace.
The only criticism of City, and it’s a big one, is their European record. Losing to domestic rivals, conceding lots of goals, is not a good look - they can win it with their existing defence, but they’d need everything to go in their favour. If they can improve that defence, and given the rebuilding that the traditional powers need to do, next season it should be theirs.
Guardiola applauds, and it’s hard to see any team matching his lot next season, especially after another summer’s investment. If he can replace Fernandinho, and find himself some better defenders, dearie me, what a team he’ll have. On which point, I guess we have to note the ludicrous money spent on this team and its provenance but, footballistically speaking, they are outstanding.
Vincent Kompany dances his way to the trophy and launches it above his head!
Manchester City are champions again!
Guardiola and Saneé share a hug. There didn’t seem to be any animus, but yerman won’t fancy as much time sitting at the side next season.
Pep Guardiola trots out and the players follow him.
Tasty game at Selhurst - not as tasty as Tasty Jerk, but still.
The City backroom staff come out, and the trophy follows them.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang earned a share of the golden boot as Arsenal finally won away. Louise Taylor was at Turf Moor.
It was not a good day for Watford, who lost Christian Kabasele for the cup final and 4-1 to West Ham. Ben Fisher was there.
Huddersfield are a veritable points machine! They nabbed a draw with Southampton, and here’s more on that.
Stuart James watched Chelsea secure third place with a 0-0 home draw against Leicester.
Bruno comes out with his family to take the applause of the crowd. His team-mates have t-shirts with his face on them, which looks like Richard from Guess Who.
Newcastle have had a brilliant second half of the season, and stole Fulham’s lunch money this afternoon. Amy Lawrence saw them beat Fulham 4-0.
Liverpool are up to 29 years without a league title, but what a season it’s been for them - and what a season it might still be. Here’s Danny Taylor on their 2-0 win over Wolves.
Cardiff landed a final shot on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s nose, and Jamie Jackson was there to see it.
David Hytner was at Spurs 2-2 Everton.
Here’s Dominic Fifield’s report of Brighton 1-4 Man City.
Vincent Kompany says he knew Liverpool were ahead because the Brighton fans were singing 1-0 to Liverpool. But he says his team were finding the gaps, which is to say that he wasn’t all that worried.
At the Amex, Guardiola is acknowledging the fans, before the players go in - they’ll be out again presently, to be presented with the trophy.
Full-time: Burnley 1-3 Arsenal
Eddie Nketiah grabbed a third in injury-time, so Arsenal finish fifth, ahead of Man United in sixth.
And read about Liverpool- Wolves, here:
Read all about the champions, here.
Yaya Toure tries to speak to the players for Sky - instead they haul him into their celebrations, singing his song.
Full-time scores
Spurs 2-2 Everton
Man United 0-2 Cardiff
Watford 1-4 West Ham
Southampton 1-1 Huddersfield
Leicester 0-0 Chelsea
Fulham 0-4 Newcastle
Liverpool 2-0 Wolves
Crystal Palace 5-3 Bournemouth
Brighton 1-4 Man City
MANCHESTER CITY ARE CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND AGAIN!
They’ve beaten Brighton 4-1, coming from a goal down too, and that’s 14 straight wins, beating Arsenal’s run-in 13 in 01-02. They’re a very, very good team, and it’ll take something special to overhaul them next season.
Full-time: Liverpool 2-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Well played Liverpool. That little run when they were ahead, against Leicester, West Ham and Man United, cost them in the end, but they gave it everything. Ninety-seven points to not win the title!
At Anfield, there’s a lot of indignant singing. Liverpool have had a brilliant season, and will fancy themselves to win a sixth big ears.
Pogba drills a free-kick into the wall as Old Trafford empties in disgust. The lap of appreciation should be a goodun.
GOAL! Fulham 0-4 Newcastle United (Rondon, 89)
Imagine what Newcastle could do if someone gave Benitez a few quid to spend.
At Old Trafford, Mason Greenwood can’t quite poke home Rashford’s cross, then Angel Gomes, on as sub, curls over the bar.
Back at the Amex, Vincent Kompany is withdrawn for a walk of fame. What a player he’s been for City and he gets the mother and father of all hugs from Guardiola. This being football, it’s followed up with a hard head shove - Guardiola must be strong - and in not long at all, Kompany will be chucking the Premier League trophy into the air.
On the Old Trafford bench, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer sits there in his club suit. It’s not making that much difference, and neither is he or Micky Phelan next to him.
At the Amex, the retiring Bruno has just been taken off - he receives a standing ovation and plenty of congratulation. What a signing he was.
“Everton fans at White Hart Lane singing ‘Now you’re going to believe us You’re going to win the cup’, emails John Tumbridge.
The beauty of football right there.
GOAL! Liverpool 2-0 Wolves (Mane, 81)
“Logjam!” is what Peter Drury would have screeched were he commentating on this game. Alexander-Arnold curls in brilliantly, Mane heads down, and he is now level with Salah and Aubameyang.
“I’m sure if he could have that moment again, he’d stand there clapping whilst Antonio ran through,” says Dan C of Holebas. “Did he try promising the ref they’d let West Ham walk the free kick in?”
He is going to have some stern ones with himself tonight. Maybe he should give Dazzler Fletcher a call.
GOAL! Spurs 2-2 Everton (Eriksen, 75)
He’s decent, this lad. A low free-kick catches Pickford moving the wrong way, and Spurs do not know when they’re beaten.
GOAL! Spurs 1-2 Everton (Tosun, 72)
There he is! Lloris saves Keane’s header from Sigurdsson’s corner, and Tosun is there to barge home.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 4-3 AFC Bournemouth (King, 73)
Mepham heads on a corner and King is there. What a game!
GOAL! Watford 1-3 West Ham (Arnautovic, 71)
The Orns ave ad better days.
GOAL! Brighton 1-4 Man City (Gundogan, 72)
City win a free-kick 25 yards out, and Gundogan curls over the wall and in. I wonder if Ryan might’ve saved that.
At Old Trafford, Mason Greenwood has looked sharp, and he’s just flicked a header narrowly wide.
GOAL! Burnley 1-2 Arsenal (Barnes, 65)
A back four of Lichsteiner, Mustafi, Mavropanos and Monreal is never keeping a clean sheet, and it does not.