KOMPAS.com – Leicester Competition, Chelsea, and Liverpool towards the top four of the standings Premier League could trigger a complicated situation at the end of the season.
Leicester, Chelsea and Liverpool are competing tightly to penetrate the top four of the 2020-2021 Premier League standings which prize tickets to Champions League Next season.
The dramatic 2-1 victory over West Brom which Liverpool confirmed via the goalkeeper’s goal, Alisson, Sunday (16/5/2021), made the competition fire in the Champions League zone continue to burn.
Leicester, who recently won the FA Cup title, are third with 66 points.
The Foxes (the Fox), nicknamed Leicester, are overshadowed by Chelsea in fifth place with 64 points and Liverpool with 63 points in the sixth steps.
The competition of the three teams can lead to a complicated situation at the end Premier League, the Premier League’s top caste competition.
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If Liverpool wipe out the remaining two matches against Burnley (19/5/2021) and Crystal Palace (23/5/2021), then Juergen Klopp’s squad will be 69 points.
Two direct competitors, Leicester and Chelsea will not possibly exceed that acquisition considering the two teams are scheduled to clash with each other in Week 37, 19 May.
This means that the constellation of the team in the top four is very likely to be determined by goal difference or goal productivity.
The situation will be complicated if the following results are created, namely Leicester 0-1 beating Chelsea and then beating Tottenham 3-0 in the final week of the Premier League.
Meanwhile, Liverpool beat Burnley 2-1 and Crystal Palace with a score of 3-2, then Chelsea crushed Aston Villa on the last weekend.
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In this scenario, Chelsea will be in third place with 70 points.
Liverpool and Leicester will both end the season with 69 points, identical goal difference (23) and productivity (68)!
So who has the right to get the last ticket to the Champions League 2021-2022?
Premier League rules state that if two teams have identical value, goal difference and productivity, then the position in the standings is determined by the record. head-to-head.
Happy Liverpool fans, because of the problems head-to-head, Juergen Klopp’s men took the lead over Leicester.
Liverpool beat Leicester 3-0 when they hosted status at Anfield Stadium in November last year.
When they visited King Power Stadium, Leicester’s home, last February, Liverpool lost by a score of 1-3.
Despite beating each other, Liverpool bagged a better goal difference than Leicester in the pair of duels.
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