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Man City takes Premier League for third time in a row

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 20 May 22:59

Manchester City has taken the Premier League for the third time in a row with three games to spare.

  • Fans shield themselves from the sun to watch the English Premier League soccer match between Nottingham Forest and Arsenal at City ground in Nottingham, England, May 20, 2023 (AP
    Fans shield themselves from the sun to watch the English Premier League soccer match between Nottingham Forest and Arsenal at City ground in Nottingham, England, May 20, 2023 (AP

The Premier League's boast of being more competitive than other top leagues in Europe has been rendered laughable by Manchester City's local domination under Pep Guardiola.

With three games remaining, City won their fifth championship in six years on Saturday, easily defeating Arsenal's bid to win the league for the first time in 19 years.

Even though City has a number of extremely rich opponents in England, their dominance eerily resembles that of Bayern Munich in Germany or Paris Saint-Germain in France.

By adding the Champions League and FA Cup to their treble-winning haul from 1998–1999, Guardiola's team may strengthen their case to be remembered as one of the all-time greatest squads in the coming weeks.

City went from being an underdog team playing in the shadow of their regional competitors to the dominant power in English football after Sheikh Mansour, an Emirati monarch, took ownership in 2008, turning the world's richest league into a one-horse race.

City has won seven championships in the last 12 seasons thanks to significant investment from its Abu Dhabi owners.

If the team wins two of their remaining three games, City will break the 90-point barrier for the fourth time in six seasons, which was managed twice under Furguson in a 38-game season.

If not for the recent tough matches played by Liverpool and Arsenal, concerns about the competitiveness of the English top division would have been raised much more rapidly.

Liverpool scored 97 points in 2018–19 and 92 points the previous season, but they were still unable to win the championship because of City's firm resistance. 

 

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