Liverpool, Chelsea qualify for Champions League, Aguero scores twice on City farewell

Liverpool and Chelsea secured the ultimate two Champions League qualification spots on an exhilarating final day of the Premier League season, with Leicester lacking out within the three-way battle for a top-four end on Sunday.
Chelsea’s 2-1 defeat at Aston Villa didn’t show vital as a result of Leicester conceded three late objectives to lose 4-2 at house to Tottenham and keep in fifth place.
Liverpool beat Crystal Palace 2-0 thanks to 2 objectives from Sadio Mane and jumped into third place, two factors above fourth-place Chelsea.
Leicester, which additionally missed out on Champions League qualification by shedding on the ultimate day of final season, was main 2-1 after 76 minutes, just for goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel to punch the ball into his personal web. Substitute Gareth Bale scored within the 87th and once more in stoppage time as Leicester poured ahead searching for a winner.
West Ham beat Southampton 3-0 to complete in sixth place to qualify for the Europa League and Tottenham’s win at Leicester ensured the staff obtained into the brand new Europa Conference League.
Sergio Aguero marked his last Premier League sport for Manchester City by scoring twice in its place within the champions’ 5-0 win towards Everton.
Harry Kane completed because the league’s high scorer, for the third time, on 23 objectives — one forward of Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah — after scoring at Leicester. The striker additionally had extra assists than anybody else, with 14.
Arsenal didn’t qualify for European competitors for the primary time in 25 years after ending in eighth place, some extent behind north London rival Tottenham, regardless of beating Brighton 2-0.
There had been additionally wins for Manchester United, Newcastle, Leeds and Sheffield United.
Fairytale farewell for Aguero
Sergio Aguero scored twice in a fairytale Premier League farewell as Manchester City accomplished its title-winning marketing campaign by thrashing Everton 5-0 on Sunday.
City’s report scorer, who’s leaving the membership following subsequent week’s Champions League last after 10 years on the Etihad Stadium, hit a quickfire double after coming off the bench with 25 minutes remaining.
That added to earlier strikes from Kevin De Bruyne, Gabriel Jesus and Phil Foden as City confirmed no signal of letting up forward of the ultimate towards Chelsea in Porto on Saturday.
Everton, which had gone into the sport with an opportunity of qualifying for Europe, was overwhelmed on an emotional event that noticed City offered with the Premier League trophy and followers return to the stadium.
The Merseysiders, for whom Gylfi Sigurdsson missed a penalty, slumped to tenth within the standings.
For City, it was a celebration. Not solely had been supporters again after 14 months away nevertheless it was their first probability to salute the champions and acknowledge their European exploits.
The followers definitely made their presence felt all through the afternoon. Before the sport, huge numbers spilled into the streets as City’s staff coaches made what is generally an easy journey from the close by coaching complicated to the stadium.
Only 10,000 had been permitted contained in the stadium however the ambiance they generated impressed the staff and few left earlier than the post-match ceremonies, which included the membership tributes to Aguero.
Everton shaped a guard of honor to greet City gamers as they got here onto the sector and gamers from either side then did likewise for Aguero.
Supporters must wait to see the Argentinian in motion, nevertheless. The striker, having been troubled by a muscular harm in latest weeks, was not match sufficient to play the total 90 minutes and had requested supervisor Pep Guardiola if he may begin from the bench.
He moved onto 260 objectives for City, and ended his Premier League profession on 184 — solely behind Alan Shearer (260), Wayne Rooney (208) and Andy Cole (187).