Chapter 150: The Ownership of the League Champion

On May 16, the penultimate round of the Premier League arrived.

Liverpool travel to face already-relegated West Bromwich Albion, while Manchester United host Arsenal.

This round is basically the one that decides the championship, mainly the match between Manchester United and Arsenal, even if the season task has been completed, Arsenal has finally become the focus.

Manchester United's match against Arsenal was the first game of the round, with Liverpool's game set to kick off the next day as the whole Liverpool squad gathered to watch the Reds play again.

It was a boring battle, and Ferguson played solidly at home, prioritising defence, as the media said, with Arsenal never breaking through Manchester United's defence, and United failing to take advantage of their chances to score.

This made everyone in Liverpool, all the fans of Liverpool were hanging their hearts, looking at Arsenal as if they could score at any time, but they couldn't score for a long time, the game time passed minute by minute, the score never changed, and the score of 0:0 gave people infinite reverie.

But when the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, the score remained unchanged, Manchester United and Arsenal played 0:0 at home, and Ferguson did win 1 point at home, which is likely to be the 1 point that decides the championship.

Arsene Wenger was also happy after the game: "We couldn't beat Manchester United, but we gave them at least one point, as long as Liverpool win this round, then the last round will be the one that decides the title, and then anything can happen." ”

Arsene Wenger, you are proud of yourself, if you beat Manchester United, Liverpool will definitely give you a live Lei Feng pennant, but now although Manchester United only gets 1 point, Liverpool can chase only 1 point away from Manchester United if he wins, but if you want Manchester United to have problems in the last round, that possibility is too small.

On the afternoon of May 17, Liverpool went to challenge West Bromwich Albion away.

At the Hawthorn Stadium, Liverpool was on fire, and the Thrush Birds were still defending to make Liverpool a little trouble, even though they had been relegated.

In the 41st minute, Liverpool had Liu Ting assist Gerrard to open the scoring.

Liu Ting picked up his 15th assist of the season and Steven Gerrard also scored his 16th league goal of the season.

In the second half, Fernando Torres and Kuyt scored in quick succession to seal the win for Liverpool, with West Bromwich Albion only netting a face-saving goal just before the end of the game.

Liverpool defeated West Bromwich Albion 3:1 away, ranking second in the standings with 25 wins, 11 draws and 1 loss with 86 points, and Manchester United at the top of the table is 27 wins, 6 draws and 4 losses with 87 points, Liverpool is still 1 point behind Manchester United, and there is still the last round of the league to play, and anything can happen in the last round.

Theoretically, as long as Manchester United can't win and Liverpool wins in the final round, then Liverpool can overtake Manchester United to win the title.

But this is only theoretical, Manchester United's last opponent is Hull City, who have been relegated successfully, and Liverpool's opponent is Tottenham Hotspur, and it is more likely that Liverpool will capsize.

The goal was also shared by Chelsea's Nicolas Anelka, who topped the scoring charts with 19 goals, followed by Nicolas Anelka and Cristiano Ronaldo, both of whom scored 18 goals, and the final round involved a race for the Premier League Golden Boot this season.

There is no suspense in the assist king, Liu Ting's 15 assists are indisputable, and Frank Lampard and Van Persie, who are currently second in the assist list, both have 10 assists, and it is impossible to catch up in the final round.

The media has another object of hype, and analyzing the ownership of the championship has become the most popular topic for media reporters in the past two days, from newspapers to TV stations everywhere to talk about this topic, and at the same time, the ownership of the Premier League Golden Boot is also indispensable.

In addition to Torres and Anelka, Ronaldo fight, Gerrard also has a little chance to compete for the Premier League Golden Boot, Gerrard currently has 16 league goals, only 3 goals away from Torres, Gerrard scored 4 goals in the last round It is also possible to win the Premier League Golden Boot, of course, this possibility is very small.

Liu Ting currently has only 14 league goals and has no chance of competing for the Premier League Golden Boot.

Also this weekend, Barcelona won the La Liga title early of this season, having already won two titles, and all eyes are on them to analyze whether they can beat Liverpool in the Champions League final to win the treble.

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A week later, on 24 May, the final round of the Premier League came.

All the games in the final round started at the same time, with Liverpool hosting Tottenham and Manchester United travelling to Hull City.

Anfield Stadium was plastered with 'champions' slogans, and while there was little hope, fans were hoping for a miracle, just as United had been beaten by the Hammers in the final round when they handed the title to Blackburn.

Liverpool started the game and showed their determination to win at home.

In the 21st minute, Liu Ting and Gareth Bale made a series of one-two combinations on the left side to enter the Tottenham Hotspur penalty area, shook Tottenham captain Ledley King and scored the ball, and Liu Ting helped Liverpool take the lead.

This is Liu Ting's 15th league goal, completing the task of double 15 league goals and assists in a season.

There was another 'TNT'...... tnt! 's cry.

In the 34th minute, Gerrard broke through with the ball and was tripped in the Tottenham penalty area, Liverpool won a penalty, and Gerrard took the initiative to give the penalty to Torres to take the penalty, adding fuel to Torres' fight for the league golden boot.

Fernando Torres converted the penalty to give Liverpool a 2-0 lead over Tottenham and his tally to 20.

The 2-0 lead in the first half made Liverpool fans happy, Torres also scored a goal to hope to win the league golden boot, the main thing is that the news from Manchester United is that Manchester United has not been able to break the deadlock for the time being, which is the happiest thing for Liverpool fans.

After falling behind by two goals in the first half, most of the Tottenham players planned to finish the game like this, and Tottenham is currently not in a big position, and they can't snipe their opponents, so there's nothing to fight for.

In the last moments of the first half, Anfield remembered the boos all over the field, Liu Ting knew that it must be Manchester United who scored, and now there is nothing on the pitch at Anfield worthy of boos from Liverpool fans.

Really. The whole Liverpool team knew at half-time that United had scored a late goal in the first half to take the lead.

In the second half, Liverpool and Tottenham both played listlessly, but Robbie Keane, who was sold back after half a year after moving to Liverpool, was in good shape and wanted to prove himself at Anfield.

Keane scored a goal in the 76th minute, which was a revenge at Anfield, and soon Jiret also scored a goal in the 81st minute, Liverpool beat Tottenham 3-1 at home, but everyone was not happy at the end of the game, because Manchester United beat Hull City 1-0 and took the title away safely.

A replica of the league trophy brought to Anfield before the FA championship game was also taken away, which was supposed to be brought over as a trophy for the time being if Liverpool won the championship, and then exchanged for a real trophy later. In this round, the real trophy was of course sent to Manchester United, after all, Manchester United is ahead of Liverpool in the standings.

The only consolation is that Torres won the Premier League Golden Boot with 20 goals, Cristiano Ronaldo did not score this time, and Anelka had a goal, but it was still one goal less.

Liu Ting also won the assist king with 15 assists, and Liu Ting had 15 goals and 15 assists in the first season of the Premier League, a very good result.

Losing the league title, Liverpool are left with only one final Champions League title to play.