2023-05-14 17:50:25
Spaniard Pep Guardiola is close to achieving a historic achievement that no other coach has ever achieved in the history of the English Premier League, “Premier League”, except for the Scottish Sir Alex Ferguson, the legend of Manchester United.
Guardiola leads the standings with 85 points, accompanied by Manchester City, 3 matches before the end, and 4 points behind runner-up Arsenal, who played one match more than the Spanish coach’s battalion.
Historic achievement
- Since the beginning of the “Premier League” era in the 1992-1993 season, competitiveness has been the most prominent title among English clubs, and no team has succeeded in preserving the league title for 3 consecutive seasons, except for Manchester United only.
- United, under the leadership of Ferguson, won the Premier League 3 times in a row, the seasons 1998-1999, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001, then repeated the same achievement and crowned the title in the seasons 2006-2007, 2007-2008 and 2008-2009.
- Pep was close to equalizing Ferguson’s achievement in the 2019-2020 season when he won the title in the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 seasons, then lost the chance to catch up with Ferguson in the third season, to crown Jürgen Klopp with Liverpool with his only title.
- And thanks to City crowning the title in the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 seasons, it is about to equal Manchester United’s historic achievement, becoming the second club in the history of the Premier League to achieve the title 3 times in a row.
title on the way
Manchester City has 3 matches left until the end of the competition, it is enough for it to win only one match to announce its crowning of the title, or to draw in only two matches and lose the third, and in this case it will be equal to Arsenal in points if the latter wins the last two matches, but the goal difference and then direct confrontations crown the heavenly team with the title .
Manchester City is preparing to face Chelsea next Sunday at the Etihad Stadium, then go out to face Brighton on Wednesday, May 24, and then conclude the season away from home, facing Brentford, on Sunday, corresponding to the 28th of the same month.
The trio is approaching
- Manchester City is seeking to equal another English record associated with Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United, which is the coronation of the Grand Treble.
- In the 1998-1999 season, Manchester United won the Champions League, the Premier League and the FA Cup, and no other English team before or after it managed to achieve the same achievement.
- Manchester City is very close to winning the Premier League title, reached the FA Cup final, and achieved a positive result in the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals at Real Madrid, with a 1-1 draw, to gain an advantage in the return match at home, to become close to reaching the final for the second time. in its history.
- Guardiola had previously achieved a historic achievement by winning the quadruple, but it was only domestic without the Champions League, as he won the Premier League titles, the FA Cup, the Carabao Cup and the Charity Shield Cup in the 2017-2018 season.
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