Six leagues of the last seven. The last four in a row, a milestone never achieved before in the history of the Premier League. Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City is a team without equal, with infinite hunger, that this Sunday did not fail and took another bite out of the legend. He had the future in his hands and West Ham fell to the canvas by crushing it, celebrating the title in style at an Etihad that didn’t even let its players celebrate. They all had to rush out due to the general invasion of the field that seemed to be decreed by the referee’s final whistle. The victory against Everton was of little use to Arsenal, if anything to put the finishing touch to an excellent season for Arteta’s team, who have only knelt before the champion.
City, a veteran in these battles, wasted no time and in 79 seconds they were ahead on the scoreboard. It was none other than Phil Foden, living the best moment of his career, recently voted best player in the Premier League, who signed a signature work of art. Receive from the front, line up for the left leg and kick to the square. The Etihad exploded with joy at the same time that the news spread like lightning through the stands of the Emirates, 300 kilometers to the south, where cell phones were the bearers of bad news.
Guardiola’s team did not want unnecessary suffering, their staging was impressive, on par with their best afternoons. Foden took the headlines but it was Doku, one of the surprises in the Santpedor coach’s eleven, who was a devil for the hammers. Areola earned his salary and was deflecting the attempts of the undetectable citizen striker to increase the score. Against whom the French goalkeeper could do nothing was against a Foden in a trance. The Englishman scored the second after receiving a pass from Doku himself, able to find space between five defenders.
The undisputed top scorer of the Premier, the one who seemed to be fighting with the goal was Håland, who finished and finished but did not knock down the door, confirming a season from more to less. Everton’s goal in north London raised the decibels of the Etihad party but, in just a few seconds, anxiety and tension appeared again. Tomiyasu equalized for Arsenal and, at the same time, Kudus pulled one back for West Ham with an impressive overhead kick. It was time for him to go to the locker room, catch his breath, regain his calm and let football dictate the sentence in the second half.
Having digested the 2-1 scare, City did not take their foot off the accelerator and teamed up with the ball to display all their power. Only West Ham ran, from side to side, desperate at the supersonic speed they were acquiring. Relief landed again at the Etihad after Rodri, one of the pillars of Guardiola’s team and his extension on the green, signed several minutes of ball handling with a tight shot into the net from outside the area. City’s third closed the show against a West Ham already with their arms down, while in London Arsenal found the prize of victory almost on the verge with Havertz’s goal, a sad consolation for the Gunners. In Manchester, thousands of people crowded in front of security members to invade the Etihad lawn. The Premier was for Guardiola’s City.
At the same time, Liverpool gave Jürgen Klopp a victory against Wolves (2-0), in the German’s last game on the red bench. Anfield said goodbye to him like a legend.
