Chapter 726 Five Stars Shine Together

Since Chelsea and Arsenal have also reached the Europa League final, the winner between the two will participate in the Champions League next season as the Europa League champion.

That is to say, there will be a grand occasion of 5 teams competing in the Champions League next season!

However, this is not the first time that five teams from the same league have competed in the Champions League. As early as the 2015-2016 season, because the Europa League champion Sevilla ranked only seventh in La Liga and did not qualify for the Champions League, in the following 2016-2017 season, five La Liga teams qualified for the Champions League.

It was just that Villarreal, which ranked fourth in La Liga at the time, was eliminated by Monaco in the Champions League qualifiers, and in the end there were still only four teams participating in the Champions League.

Today, due to the adjustment of the rules, the top four Premier League teams and the Europa League champions are directly promoted to the Champions League, so in the next 2019-2020 season, there will definitely be a grand occasion of 5 Premier League teams competing in the Champions League.

In another time and space, as early as two years ago in the 2017-2018 season, there were already five Premier League teams competing in the Champions League. At that time, Manchester United, which won the Europa League last season, ranked only sixth in the league and did not qualify for the Champions League next season. As the Europa League champion, it qualified for the 2017-2018 Champions League. In addition, Liverpool, the fourth place in the league, eliminated Hoffenheim in the play-offs, so it was the first time in history that five teams from the same league participated in the Champions League.

However, with Bruno's time travel and early transfer to Manchester United, Manchester United won the Premier League championship in the 2016-2017 season. In the 2017-2018 season of this time and space, there was no situation where five Premier League teams competed in the Champions League at the same time.

However, the inertia of history still made this grand occasion appear two years later.

Since the Champions League places brought by the Europa League champions are occupied by Premier League teams, the third place in the fifth league, that is, Lyon, which should have qualified for the Champions League, will not be able to participate in the Champions League next season.

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Except for Chelsea or Arsenal, the top four teams in the league and the Europa League champions, who will participate in the Champions League next season, the remaining team and Wolves, who are ranked seventh in the standings, will participate in the Europa League next season.

However, Wolves, ranked seventh, will start from the Europa League play-offs and can only participate in the Europa League after passing the play-offs.

Cardiff City, ranked 18th, Fulham, ranked 19th, and Huddersfield, ranked 20th, were relegated.

In the scorer list, Bruno scored 39 goals in 36 league games and ranked first. He won the Premier League Golden Boot for three consecutive years. At the same time, he is also the first player in Premier League history to score more than 30 goals in three consecutive seasons.

Bruno is not only the Premier League Golden Boot, but also leads the European Golden Boot by 5 goals ahead of the second place Yosi.

In the 37th round of La Liga, although Barcelona players are very eager to assist Yosi and help him catch up with Bruno's goal, Yosi did not score any goals except for an own goal by the opponent.

In this case, if Yosi wants to catch up with Bruno, he needs to score 5 goals in the last round of the league; if he wants to overtake, he needs to score at least 6 goals.

Whether it is scoring 5 or 6 goals in a single game, it is very difficult, so the European Golden Boot this season is likely to be Bruno's.

If Bruno can finally beat Yosi to win the European Golden Boot, it will be his third consecutive year to win the European Golden Boot, and the opponent he defeated is Yosi.

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The second place in the Premier League scorer list is still a Manchester United player. England striker Harry Kane scored 25 goals in 34 Premier League games. Although the gap with Bruno is a bit large, he still occupies the second place.

The third place is Arsenal striker Aubameyang, who scored 22 goals in 36 Premier League games.

The fourth and fifth place players are both Liverpool players. Mane scored 22 goals in 36 Premier League games, ranking fifth; Salah scored 22 goals in 38 Premier League games, ranking fifth.

In other words, the three players ranked third, fourth and fifth actually have the same number of goals.

Mbappe's performance is actually very good. He scored 19 goals in 29 Premier League games, ranking seventh after Aguero.

In addition, Rashford also scored more than 10 goals in the league in Manchester United. This Manchester United youth training player has produced a report card of 10 goals and 8 assists in 28 games.

Bruno is still ranked first in the assists list. He has made a total of 26 assists in the Premier League this season, breaking his record of 23 assists in a single Premier League season last season, but there is still some gap from his record of 29 assists in a single season in the top five leagues.

Chelsea's Hazard ranked second with 15 assists.

Manchester City's De Bruyne ranked third with 12 assists.

The fourth, fifth and sixth are all Liverpool players, Salah, Robertson and Arnold all made 10 assists.

In Manchester United, Rashford with 8 assists, Mbappe, Gundogan and Harry Kane with 7 assists, but they all failed to enter the top ten of the assists list.

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Although the Premier League has come to an end, it is not time for Manchester United players to rest yet, because they still have two very crucial games, one is the FA Cup final with Manchester City, and the other is naturally the Champions League final with Liverpool.

This season's FA Cup final was scheduled on the afternoon of May 18, still at the new Wembley Stadium.

This is the fourth consecutive year that Manchester United has participated in the FA Cup final, and in the previous three years, Manchester United won the final victory. If they can win the championship again this year, Manchester United will become the first team in English history to win four consecutive FA Cup titles.

This is the oldest football event in modern football history, but it is actually very difficult. Since the birth of the 1871-1872 season, this event has gone through a long history of 148 years. During this period, except for the suspension of 4 years during the First World War and 6 years during the Second World War, a total of 10 sessions were suspended. This season is the 138th.

In history, 43 teams have won the championship of this event, so the FA Cup is also the event with the most winning teams in football history.

And because there are so many winning teams, it is difficult for this event to be monopolized by a single team. After all, in the previous 137 editions, the average of the 43 teams was just over 3 times per team.

In fact, even Manchester United, which has won the most FA Cup titles, only won 14 times before this season.

Compared to other major European cup competitions, 14 wins is really not much, especially in the long history of more than 140 years.