Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Chelsea beats Leicester
Man United runner-up after a draw
With Chelsea FC, coach Thomas Tuchel has taken an important step towards re-participating in the Champions League. The club is now third in the Premier League. Manchester City meanwhile experienced their first away defeat in the league in half a year.
Manchester United stumbled upon a relegated team when their fans returned to Old Trafford – and were still able to look forward to being runner-up in the Premier League a little later. The English football top club did not get more than 1: 1 (1: 0) against FC Fulham on Tuesday, but at the end of the evening this one point was enough for second place behind city rivals Manchester City.
This can no longer be taken from United because Chelsea won 2-1 (0-0) against Leicester City in a chase duel. Antonio Rüdiger (47.) scored after a corner to lead the Blues, his strong national team colleague Timo Werner won a penalty a little later. Jorginho (66th) converted, only Kelechi Iheanacho (76th) was successful for Leicester. With one matchday to go, United (71 points) is now unassailable in second place ahead of Chelsea (67) and Leicester (66). Liverpool FC (63) with team manager Jürgen Klopp has played one game less and thus has more chances for the premier class.
Manchester City outnumbered
For champions Manchester City (83), the impressive record series of twelve away wins broke on Tuesday. Despite an early goal from national player Ilkay Gündogan (2nd), the Skyblues were still defeated 2: 3 (1: 0) at Brighton & Hove Albion. After the red card for Joao Cancelo, the team played outnumbered for around 80 minutes. It was the first league defeat on a foreign pitch since November 2020 (0-2 at Tottenham). City had already made the championship perfect last week.
For United, Edinson Cavani (15th) scored an early dream goal, the Uruguayan lifted the ball from about 30 meters over Fulham keeper Alphonse Areola. Joe Bryan (76.) managed to equalize with his head.
For the first time this week, fans are allowed to return to the English stadiums, with Manchester United playing in front of 10,000 fans for the first time in 14 months. For the Reds, however, it was a special situation for another reason: At the beginning of May, the supporters had made massive protests against United’s owner family around club boss Joel Glazer for the cancellation of the game against Liverpool, 200 to 300 of them even managed Access to the inside of the stadium. The fans also expressed their displeasure about the rescheduling last week, United lost 4-2. The reason is the ultimately failed plans of the European top clubs to found a Super League.
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