Wrapping up the 2020-21 English Premier League

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Wrapping up the 2020-21 English Premier League

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Despite the delayed start and regular
rescheduling, the 29th Premier League season
ended in May and what a strange season it has
been. At the start of the season, almost every
week we had a new club at the top. Arsenal was
first when the season started only for them to
trail off and disappear from the top half
entirely for two months. Then Leicester shined
for a while to snatch the position from Arsenal
and then relinquish it to Everton. The Toffees
flirted with the dream of a top-four finish for
most of October only to peek early and finish
10th on the table with 0-5 beating on the final
matchday. This to and fro then continued with
Liverpool and surprisingly Tottenham. All the
while we failed to see Manchester City climbing
slowly and steadily to the top. They improved
their form from 8th on Christmas Day to 1st and
despite the constant bickering by their local
rivals, they refused to give in.
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Citys ultimate and all-powerful reign started on
the 27th of Jan and ended with them grabbing the
title with three matches to spare. Man City
comfortably clinched the 2020/21 title by 12
points with no fans in attendance for most of the
season, taunting Manchester United who kept up
with them but from a distance. City at the start
suffered a big 5-2 defeat at the hands of
Leicester and ended the season with a 5-0 victory
over Everton on the final matchday. Kevin De
Bruyne and Stockport Iniesta, Phil Foden were
outstanding this season.
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Winning the Premier League title and League Cup
as well as their remarkable Champions League
second-place finish was built on their strong
defense and player of the season Rúben Dias.Ole
Gunnar Solskjær deserves a lot of credit for
Uniteds second-place finish this season who
improving their ranking since last season. But
Red Devils surprisingly lost six matches at Old
Trafford but were unbeaten on the road for their
entire campaign, they became the third club to do
so after Preston in 1888-89, and Arsenal in
2001-02 and 2003-04. Against the eerie backdrop
with no fans, the Defending Champions had the
most grueling season of all, which saw them lose
at Anfield by not just one match but their worst
streak at home with six straight losses. Jürgen
Klopp had a hard time ending their free fall down
the table from the top position in January to 8th
in March. Liverpool failed to overcome their bad
start to challenge City at the top but still
managed a top-four finish in the end with
commendable efforts. Reds rallied in the end to
win their last five games of the season to finish
strong at third.
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Chelsea had the most erratic season of all. Their
initial struggle in the season despite a 250
million investment got Frank Lampard sacked in
January. Taking a tough decision of changing
managers in between could have been the worst
decision for the Blues, but Thomas Tuchel proved
otherwise. With the likes of Kai Havertz, Timo
Werner, and N'Golo Kanté on their side Chelsea
scrapped a top-four finish but lost the FA Cup to
Leicester. They improved form in the end and
their second-best defensive record denied City a
win in the UEFA Champions League defeating them
1-0 to clinch their second CL title. Leicester
City, on the other hand, spent most of their time
in the top four this season and despite winning
the FA Cup they lost ground in the latter part of
the campaign and slipped fifth on the table to
suffer another anticlimactic end. Surprisingly
this year West Ham had one of their best
campaigns to finish sixth on the table and
grabbed their highest position since the 1998-99
season.
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Citys ultimate and all-powerful reign started on
the 27th of Jan and ended with them grabbing the
title with three matches to spare. Man City
comfortably clinched the 2020/21 title by 12
points with no fans in attendance for most of the
season, taunting Manchester United who kept up
with them but from a distance. City at the start
suffered a big 5-2 defeat at the hands of
Leicester and ended the season with a 5-0 victory
over Everton on the final matchday. Kevin De
Bruyne and Stockport Iniesta, Phil Foden were
outstanding this season.
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Tottenham also had a disappointing season even
after having the Golden Boot and Playmaker award
winner Harry Kane on their side, Spurs could only
scrape a 7th place finish. Harry Kane became the
third player to win both the awards in the same
season. Kane and Son Heung-min even had the most
prolific partnership in a single campaign with a
record-setting 14 goals. They now sit two goals
behind Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard for the
all-time record of most goal combinations between
two players in Premier League history.
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Following Spurs, Arsenal disappeared from the
first half for a while to end the season behind
Tottenham even after winning the last five
matches. In the end, they also missed out on
Europa League as well for the first time in 25
years. Surprisingly, all the top three took huge
beatings at the start of the campaign, Aston
Villa stunned Liverpool with 7-2. Tottenham
defeated United by 6-1 and Leicester thrashed
City by 5-2 to become the first side in Premier
League history to score with three penalties in a
single match. United went on to post the
highest winning margin in history after a 9-0 win
over Southampton they are tied with their record
against Ipswich Town in 1995 and Southampton vs
Leicester City in 2019 Red Devils even had seven
different scorers that day.
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Sergio Aguero went on to beat Wayne Rooney's
record of most goals for a single club by scoring
184 goals for City in the Premier League and
Alisson became the only goalkeeper to score a
winner as well as a header with his stoppage-time
goal for Reds against West Brom keeping their
five-match winning streak alive. Such informative
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