The English Premier League football Premier League will return tomorrow, Wednesday, after a long wait, after three months of suspension of its activities due to the health crisis caused by the spread of the new epidemic of the Corona virus.
Since March the scene has changed a lot, clubs welcomed the return of their players who were infected with the virus, and had the opportunity for another to regroup, and Liverpool had to come to terms with the idea of celebrating as little as possible in the event he won the title.
Hence, the winners and losers after the teams emerged from the stone and the closure imposed by the authorities throughout the suspension period:
The healing stars of Tottenham and United
When we last saw Jose Mourinho on the field, the Spurs coach acknowledged at the time that he wished he could move directly to next season.
At the time, the London team had failed to win their last six games in all competitions, which led to their exit from the Champions League and the FA Cup, and seven points behind their final fourth place in the Champions League next season.
However, no coach has benefited from the three-month hiatus more than Mourinho, as he will return to eighth-ranked Tottenham rows (with 41 points), his captain and scorer Harry Kane and his South Korean star Sun Hyung-min, Dutch Stephen Bergwin, Argentinian Eric Lamilla and French Moussa Sissoko after they get back in shape.
This should be the ideal push for the team in the race to qualify for the Champions League, especially with a crucial first match with the return of competitions against one of its competitors to achieve the same goal Manchester United.
United was fifth (45 points), four points behind Tottenham, frustrated with the stoppage of competitions because he was in a special period at the time, as he achieved eight wins and three draws in the last 11 games, except for being three-quarters of the distance towards the quarter-finals of the European League. Europa League "by beating away the Austrian Lask by five clean in the first leg of the final price.
The contract of the "Red Devils" during the winter transfer period with the Portuguese Bruno Fernandez had a good impact on the team, as he contributed effectively to raising the level of United in the nine matches that he played in all competitions.
More importantly, England striker Marcos Rashford returned from injury, as well as French midfielder Paul Pogba, especially since the next opponent after Tottenham will be another competitor with the same goals, which is seventh-placed Sheffield United (43 points).
A conflict of endangered teams
The clubs involved in the struggle to escape from the decline to the first degree (Championship) focused on the issue of self-preservation, with repeated warnings about financial health in the long run.
Clubs that face the risk of leaving the "Premier League" agreed on several points, such as the debate over how to end the season in the event that it must be canceled, complaining about the possibility of playing in neutral stadiums, and complaining that it is too early to resume the season under "Covid-19" .
Brighton will be one of the teams threatened with relegation (15th with 29 points) under tremendous pressure, after being very loudly opposed to playing on neutral courts.
Brighton has failed since the start of 2020 to win any ten matches in all competitions, and he will have to face four big teams in his nine remaining matches in the tournament: Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool and Manchester City.
Watford was also among the critics of the proposal to play matches in the neutral stadiums, and his task does not seem easy to stay in the Premier League, as he occupies the seventeenth place with 27 points, with Bournemouth, the first landing center.
Watford will face difficult matches in the last few months of the season against Leicester City, Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal, but luck is somewhat worse for him, as he plays home matches against teams at his disposal, such as Southampton, Norwich City and Newcastle United.
Aston Villa, bottom runner-up Aston Villa, who have suffered four consecutive defeats in the league before the suspension, appears to have benefited from stopping the competitions to reassemble its ranks at a time when it was in danger of collapsing. While 18th Bournemouth hopes a return will mark a new start for him, taking him out of the landing gear.
Expected Liverpool title
Instead of celebrating a long-awaited thirty-year title with crowds with fans, Liverpool will have to content themselves with lifting the FA Cup to an empty stadium as a result of the return protocol.
Liverpool are 25 points ahead of champions Manchester City, and need two wins from their remaining nine games to win their first decades in three decades and nineteenth in their history, regardless of the results of men of Spanish coach Josep Guardiola in the remaining stages.
But he could culminate in the title if he defeated Everton in the "Merseyside" derby in the first matches of the appeal and City lost its postponed match from the twenty-eighth stage against Arsenal, scheduled for Wednesday.
Liverpool may have to delay its festive procession with the Championship Cup until next year due to the rules of social estrangement, which is another blow.
No wonder that former Arsenal striker Alan Smith, who won the title at "Anfield" with "Gunners" in the last stage of the 1988-1989 season, said "If Liverpool crowned in the end, it will be very disappointing. I can only feel sorry. About (Senegalese) Sadio Mane, (Egyptian) Mohamed Salah and (Dutchman) Virgil van Dyck, and everyone who deserves all praise for this wonderful effort. "