Under normal circumstances, defending champion Manchester City should have long since handed over his throne to list-leading FC Liverpool, instead Pep Guardiola's students will even seek to postpone the seemingly inevitable "coronation" of the rival even on Wednesday.
Three months after the pandemic interrupted the league, second-place City will host the ninth Arsenal and the relegation-fighting Aston Villa will receive the seventh Sheffield United - the first two of the 92 remaining matches scheduled for five weeks. will be conducted during the PL. The meetings will be held behind closed gates and before the start, more than 40,000 people who have fallen victim to the epidemic in the UK will be remembered.
The sad curiosity of the City-Arsenal clash is that the head coaches of both guards were closely affected by the coronavirus: Guardiola’s mother died of the disease and Mikel Arteta, who had previously been Guardiola’s helper, caught the virus in March but recovered.
City will start a 25-point disadvantage with a restart, which also means that if they get knocked out by the Gunners, Liverpool can secure its lead over the city’s rival Everton on Sunday, which will be the first in the club’s history since 1990. Arsenal are driving to the Champions League start, which doesn’t seem out of reach for him, after the European Federation’s penalty for Manchester City, its exclusion from the international stage, could lead to BL participation.
The four teams, which will start on Wednesday, can’t rest much because they’ll be interested in the 30th round of the weekend as well.
Premier League:
Round 28:
Wednesday:
Aston Villa-Sheffield United 19.00
Manchester City-Arsenal 21.15
Round 30:
Friday:
Norwich City-Southampton 19.00
Tottenham Hotspur-Manchester United 21.15
Saturday:
Watford-Leicester City 13.30
Brighton-Arsenal 16.00
West Ham United-Wolverhampton Wanderers 18.30
Bournemouth-Crystal Palace 20.45
Sunday:
Newcastle United-Sheffield United 15.00
Aston Villa-Chelsea 17.15
Everton-FC Liverpool 20.00
Monday:
Manchester City-Burnley 21.00
(Source: Source: sportrajongo.hu, mti / Photo: pixabay)