City confirms its supremacy and Liverpool returns from afar ... and Mohamed Salah loses in the last few meters

The last edition of the English Premier League, which concluded last Sunday night, can be described as three tournaments in one championship, and the 2020-2021 season version can also be described as the most prominent and strongest compared to the past five years.

Manchester City imposed itself as the league champion three rounds before the end of the tournament, achieving the third league shield victory in the last four years, which is a unique achievement in itself for the team after it ended the season with 86 points, surpassing the second Manchester United with 74 points, Liverpool the third with 69 points, then the fourth Chelsea With 67 points, fifth Leicester City 66 and sixth West Ham United 65.

The current season of the Premier League was distinguished by that it witnessed strong competitions until the last round, as if the clubs competed for three championships, which are the League Shield, which was decided by Manchester City with high distinction and merit, and the championship of the teams that qualified to play in the Champions League, which lasted until the whistle of the end of the last round, through which Manchester rose United, Liverpool and Chelsea, next to the champion Manchester City, in addition to the struggle for survival championship that resulted in the relegation of Fulham, West Bromwich Albion and Sheffield United, and another championship (top scorers) could be added, which was between Tottenham Hotspur player Harry Kane with 23 goals against 22 goals for the player. Liverpool Egyptian Mohamed Salah.

City regained the championship shield from its rivals Liverpool, which it won in the 2019-2020 season, thanks to the outstanding performance by City players on a regular basis and the high stability of the team in performance and results, by winning 27 matches and scoring 83 goals for only 6 losses, which is the lowest number of participation with Manchester. United and conceded only 32 times, which led to his goalkeeper Ederson winning the Golden Glove for the second consecutive season after keeping his nets clean in 19 games this season.

Liverpool suffered soccer jolts at the beginning of the season after severe injuries affected most of its players, most notably the injury of its Dutch captain Van Dyck, which lost him to the title early and fell to unexpected positions in the middle of the standings and was a strong candidate for not being able to obtain one of the cards eligible to play in the next season of the Champions League before To rise up strongly for himself in the last 10 rounds, in which he collected 26 points out of 30, with 8 wins and two draws, the most prominent of which was the victory over Manchester United (4-2), which qualified him to win the third place.

Manchester United was unable to regain the completion of the 2012-2013 season, but he finished in second place, the second time he was able to since his last victory in the championship in addition to the 2018 season, while he finished fourth in 2015, fifth in 2016, sixth in 2017, sixth in 2019 and third in 2020, and he could have competed stronger had it not been for the draw in 11 games that lost him 22 points, the majority of which were with less technical and physical capabilities such as West Bromwich Albion, Fulham, Crystal Palace and Leeds, but United managed to present him for very enjoyable matches.

- The biggest victory for a team at home: Manchester United's victory over Southampton (9-0) and Vasston Villa over Liverpool (7-2)

- The biggest victory for a team away from home: Liverpool's victory over Crystal Palace (7-0)

Longest winning streak: Manchester City 15 games,

longest non-losing streak: Manchester City 19 games

Longest consecutive losing streak: Sheffield United 9 matches The

longest non-winning streak in a row: Sheffield United 17 matches The

 number of goals scored in the league: 1023 goals in 380 league

top scorer

games

: Harry Kane (23 goals)

- Burnley team stopped a series of victories and draws for Liverpool at home After 68 games in a row when he defeated him with a clean goal.

- The just-ended season witnessed the return of Leeds United to the Premier League after an absence of 16 years

- Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho was subjected to the fifth dismissal in his history and occurred by Tottenham Hotspur in the current season after the previous dismissals from Chelsea twice and both Real Madrid and Manchester United once.

Arsenal finished the second season in a row while he is in eighth place and is his worst since the 1994-1995 season, in which he was in twelfth place.

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