The Sporting News provides live coverage of the Premier League final day, as Manchester City and Liverpool battle for the title.
Manchester City will take on Aston Villa at the Etihad Stadium, whilst Liverpool host Wolves at Anfield. An exciting day of football drama is in store and we will bring you team news from all concerned at the top of the hour. 1hrs 30 mins to KO: Manchester City or Liverpool, who will win the Premier League title? 45 mins to KO: Big news stories all around for the four teams concerned. Who can conjure up a title-winning display in the second half? The diminutive attacker slots home after a low cross from Raul Jimenez! Nevertheless, the midfielder blazes his close-range strike over the top. Manchester City have turned the game around as the German international ghosts in at the back post for a tap-in! Could the title be heading back to the Etihad Stadium now? Full-time: Manchester City are Premier League champions in season 2021/22 after an enthralling 3-2 win over Aston Villa, Liverpool miss out despite a convincing victory. Queue twenty minutes of Premier League drama that will surely go down in the history books. The drama wasn't to end there, as Liverpool put increasing pressure on their opponents. Soon after, Liverpool equalized in stylish fashion, as Sadio Mane latched on to a precise through ball before slotting past Jose Sa with ease.
Pieces were falling into place for an unlikely triumph but now Jürgen Klopp's thoughts must turn to the Champions League.
But the truth is that 92 points is, by any reasonable measure, an absurd number of points to have gathered; only once before has that not been enough to win the title, and that was this Liverpool in 2019. On a normal Sunday afternoon, Liverpool would probably have swept Wolves away but here, with the line in sight, with so much at stake, the muscles just felt a little tighter, the passing a little less fluent, the mechanisms just a little gummy. The possibility that Steven Gerrard might at last win the title for Liverpool had been teased almost to breaking point. They won and they hoped and in the end it wasn’t quite enough. Liverpool did their bit, and in the end that is all they could do. In the end it did not, but for 80 unlikely minutes it seemed as though it might.
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We were just trying to focus on what we needed to do." "We're a bit disappointed today. "We kept going and found a way to win.
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He never raised the Premier League trophy as Liverpool captain, but as Aston Villa’s manager had the chance on Sunday to help his old club to victory by beating Manchester City. “If they beat City and we win, we win the league. Their victory in the end is the difference between being able to pay £30m and £80m for a player.” They became champions for the fourth time in five seasons and Liverpool’s title dream was over. A fan for 60 years, he remembered his own father bringing him to games and watching matches from the “boys’ pen”, a small enclosure for children. “I’m absolutely distraught,” said Alexander Pritchard, who had driven up with his girlfriend from Bargoed in the Welsh valleys without tickets: “At the end of the day, we have got to give City credit. She had given her 16-year-old son, Dylan, her ticket, and was left jostling for position with vaping 12-year-olds and a bunch of Egyptian tourists who were beside themselves when Mo Salah scored in the 84th minute.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has said Thiago Alcantara is a major doubt for next Saturday's Champions League final with a hamstring injury.
"We have had our knocks, but this season is incredible. "Div is out [of the Champions League final]," Klopp said. "He can walk, which is a good sign, but after some rest, we will see.
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The Liverpool manager saw his side fall short by a point despite beating Wolves, days before their Champions League final against Real Madrid.
We were close but in the end not close enough.” It’s not cool, but it’s not completely unexpected. We now have five days to prepare the final and we face an incredibly experienced team, but that’s really OK. Losing the league today increases the desire to put it right next week.” Not today the maximum reward, but we will get it. What I learned about life is that if you stay on track and keep going, you get the reward. Klopp insisted his treble chasers would turn their Premier League deflation into a motivation when meeting the Spanish champions in Paris on Saturday. The Liverpool manager said: “I can imagine it was much worse for the people at home watching on TV all over the world who were Liverpool fans.
LIVERPOOL, England — Only a few minutes remained in a tension-filled first half at Anfield when the chant from Liverpool's fans swept around the stadium.
It allowed Raul Jimenez to run through and cross for Neto to tap in at the far post. “We’ll be disappointed inside — we’ve been in this position before,” said Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson, whose team finished a point behind City in the 2018-19 title race. “You can’t do more than give your absolute best and that’s what the boys did again,” Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said. “We kept believing. He’s limping, so it’s maybe not the best sign.” On a final day of oscillating emotions in the title race, Liverpool did its part by beating Wolverhampton 3-1 at home but needed Gerrard’s Villa to take points off Manchester City at Etihad Stadium to snatch the trophy.
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The cruelty of the comeback was made somewhat more bearable by the fact that it had been completed before Liverpool had managed to establish a lead of their own. It’s never exactly the ideal opening to a game, but given the circumstances, it was shocking. For a long time, it looked as though Manchester City would slip up, only for Liverpool to fail to capitalise. As such, going behind within a matter of minutes was the definition of a bad start. Who knows if that information would even have reached the pitch at the Etihad? It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but Klopp will know that his team have done him proud. Winning it would have been almost literally unbelievable, but becoming champions of Europe next weekend would crown the best campaign in living memory — and certainly the best under Klopp.
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To get a place in the Champions League means we did something excellent.” “It was not easy because in England the league is very difficult. I don’t know the results exactly but I know Villa were 1-0 up – were they 2-0 up as well? These are the days you look back to, it was an unbelievable game.” We wanted it all, but now it’s OK. “Finishing second is the story of my life. “We are human beings and after going 2-0 down the chances were just very, very small.