The latest Premier League points report: Manchester City stops the decline and rises to 3rd, Chelsea competes for 5 in a serious situation

In the early morning of May 21, the 37th round of the 2024-25 Premier League season ended the final two games. After a fierce battle, Wolves lost to Crystal Palace 2:4 away, and Manchester City beat Bournemouth 3:1 at home.

is hard to be perfect! De Bruyne missed the match and scored a goal!

Manchester City originally had a difficult time fighting for 5, but in the last round they were unlucky and were tied by Southampton, who had been relegated and ranked last. Therefore, today they returned to the Etihad Stadium to play Bournemouth, and Manchester City cannot lose money. After the opening, Manchester City launched a fierce offensive. In the 6th minute, Manchester City pressed at a high position in the frontcourt. Kovacic intercepted the ball in front of the top of the penalty area and adjusted and shot forward with a strong shot. The ball slightly missed out of the post. In the 13th minute, Manchester City advanced from the left, Kovacic blocked the middle from the left side of the midfield, Marmush received the ball and broke into the top of the penalty area, and suddenly took a long foot and shot vigorously. The ball went straight to the upper right corner of the goal, Manchester City got a good start 1:0. In the 21st minute, Manchester City advanced from the left, De Bruyne made a cross from the bottom, and Haaland, who was unguarded at the back, volleyed at a very close distance. The ball was not blocked well, and the ball bounced up and was easily confiscated by goalkeeper Kepa.

3 minutes later, Manchester City came back from the left, Marmush broke into the penalty area and passed the cross in front of the goal. De Bruyne, who was unguarded at the back, faced the empty goal from a very close distance in the small penalty area. It was difficult not to score a goal, but De Bruyne did it. He shot hard with his left foot, and BOOM's ball was blocked by the crossbar, so life was hard to be perfect. Today's game was De Bruyne's farewell match in Etihad, but he was not sure about such a good opportunity. In the 38th minute, Manchester City launched an attack from the right. Gundogan got the ball and broke into the penalty area and passed the triangle back. B-shirt rushed to catch the ball and rushed into the small penalty area to shoot with his left foot. The ball was in the net and Manchester City led 2:0. The change of sides played a little slack when playing against Manchester City. In the 68th minute, Gvadior suddenly made a comeback in the frontcourt and the pass was wrong. Evanilson was pulled down from behind by Kovacic when he intercepted the ball. Since Kovacic was already the last defensive player, Kovacic was tricked by Gvadior and was sent off after receiving a red card.

Bornemouth is kind. They gave Manchester City a red card just 5 minutes later. Cook made an unnecessary scoop in the middle circle, but the referee also gave a red card, and the number of players on both sides was equal again. In the 88th minute, Manchester City counterattacked in the middle and backcourt. Nunes made a brilliant pass from the top on the right side of the midfield. Gonzalez inserted the ball and broke into the front of the penalty area. Suddenly, he accelerated and rushed into the penalty area and shot with his right foot. The ball drew an arc and went straight into the dead corner on the right side of the goal. Manchester City secured the victory 3:0. In stoppage time, Manchester City made another mistake in the pass. This time Nunes made a comeback pass directly to Jebisson. The latter took a smile and intercepted the ball and broke into the penalty area and pushed the ball in half. Goalkeeper Ederson attacked and blocked it hard. The ball still bounced into the net. Bournemouth scored a goal 1:3. But there was not much time left, so Manchester City finally defeated Bournemouth 3:1, stopped the decline in time, and won the key battle for 5. In terms of the standings, Manchester City beat Bournemouth and surpassed Chelsea by 2 points, Villa and Newcastle by 3 points, and Arsenal rose to third place. They now have 17 goals more than Villa and 13 more goals more than Nottingham Forest. It can be said that Manchester City has locked in the top 6 and can lock in the top 5 with another point in the last round. The suspense of the last round of 5 is between Newcastle, Chelsea, Villa and Nottingham Forest. Four teams compete for two places. Chelsea will play away against Nottingham Forest in the last round. The situation is still very serious. If Villa cannot defeat Nottingham and Villa wins Manchester United after playing the UEFA Europa League in the middle of the week, Chelsea will be squeezed out of the top 5. In terms of the scorer list, Haaland made a comeback in the last few rounds. If he gets back as soon as he returns, he still has a chance to catch up with Salah. However, he played against Southampton, who is at the bottom of the last round. He played for 90 minutes and was unable to score. He was still invisible in the game with Bournemouth today. He didn't seize a good opportunity. He didn't score even in the game, so he was still 2 goals behind Isaac, 6 goals behind Salah, and only the last round left. He would definitely not be able to get the Golden Boot. After Wolves' Larsen scored a goal today, he caught up with Matt Tower and 14 goals just entered the top ten.