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Liverpool lost to Fulham this Sunday after a series of twenty-six unbeaten games. Not enough to question the place of leader of the Reds, which rushes towards the title. At the bottom of the table, Southampton is officially relegated to Championship after yet another setback in Tottenham (3-1). The saints only has 10 points after 31st days …
Leader Liverpool underwent his second defeat of the Premier League season this Sunday in Fulham (3-2), but retains a comfortable eleven points on his Dauphin Arsenal seven days from the end. The Arne Slot team had chained twenty-six matches without defeat in the league since his first defeat six months ago and three weeks ago, September 14 against Nottingham Forest in Anfield (0-1). With 73 points, the leader, however, has eleven lengths in advance on Arsenal (2nd, 62 pts), hung on Saturday in Everton (1-1). He faces West Ham and Leicester in the next two days, before a more raised cycle (Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal …).
In Craven Cottage, the “Reds” were sealed by the defensive fragility displayed in the first period, during which they collected three goals. The meeting had however started ideally for them: Alexis Mac Allister chipped a ball, withstanding an opponent and launched a magnificent dry strike from outside the surface (14th, 0-1). Ryan Sessegnon equalized on a badly cleared ball (23rd, 1-1) then Fulham took control of an action where the lateral Andy Robertson experienced a nightmare: he made a catastrophic recovery in the axis, free from the head in the direction of Alex Iwobi, then diverted the shot of the latter in his own goal (32nd, 2-1). Rodrigo Muniz then chip the ball in the nose and the beard of Virgil Van Dijk before crucifying Caoimhin Kelleher (37th, 3-1). Liverpool reduced the score on a goal from Luis Diaz served by Conor Bradley (72nd, 3-2), two entrants, and missed the equalization on a strike from Harvey Elliott pushed by the transverse bar (79th).
A historical relegation for Southampton, which has only 10 points
Southampton was officially relegated to the second division after undergoing a 25th defeat in 31 Premier League matches, this Sunday in Tottenham (3-1). With ten points, the red lantern, which totals only 10 points, mathematically no longer has any chance of exceeding the current non -relegation first, Wolverhampton (17th, 32 pts), by the end of the championship. “It's a difficult day, a hard day, but I see the supporters, how they like their players and their team. It is something incredible. This experience must be used to create something stronger than that,” commented coach Ivan Juric with the BBC.
This is the first time that a team has been relegated to Championship when there are seven days left to play. The “saints” now have the sole objective of doing better than the eleven points collected by Derby in 2007-2008, the weakest total ever obtained by a team since the creation of the Premier League in 1992. “We want to take as many points as possible until the end of the season. No one wants this record and we will do what we can (to avoid it)”, reacted the goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale.
The team of southern England, blocked for five months in the last place, won only two matches this season, in early November against Everton (1-0) and early February in Ipswich (2-1). The leaders dismissed the Scottish Russell Martin in December to replace him with Croatian Ivan Juric, without more success. Southampton spent eleven consecutive seasons in the Premier League before being relegated to Championship at the end of the 2022-2023 fiscal year. He only stayed there, the time to end fourth and win the semi-final and then the accession final.
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