Manchester City win third successive English Premier League title

City were confirmed as champions for the fifth time in six seasons after rivals Arsenal lost 1–0 to Nottingham Forest.

Manchester City have won the English Premier League title for the third season in a row, after beating second-placed Arsenal 1-0.

City became champions for the fifth time in six seasons on Saturday without having to kick a ball.

Arsenal, who still had an eight-point lead over City in mid-March, needed at least a point to mathematically stay in the chase, but went down 1-0 to Nottingham Forest.

City have an unassailable four-point lead and Arsenal have just one game left to play.

It is City’s seventh league title since they were bought by Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan in 2008 and they are now just two victories away from a treble that Manchester United achieved earlier in 1999.

City will face Manchester United in the FA Cup final on June 3 and Inter Milan in the Champions League final a week later.

Although Arsenal have threatened to dethrone City this season, it all turned out to be an illusion in the end, as Pep Guardiola’s side once again showed they were ruthless in the run-up.

City’s latest title is the fifth in Guardiola’s seven years at the club and owes as much to the club’s run of 11 consecutive wins at the end of the season as an implosion by Arsenal just as a first league title since 2004 is in sight. came. .

Arsenal led by eight points on April 1, but have won just two of their eight games since then.

A victory at the City Ground would probably have postponed the inevitable, but Nottingham Forest’s Taiwo Awoniyi goal in the 19th minute ended the title race and City have three games to play.

The win also ensured Nottingham Forest were safe from relegation in their first season back in the top flight since 1999.

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