More reaction and analysis
That’s all for our coverage of Bournemouth v Man City, but we have a separate Arsenal blog that will be running for the next few hours. See you there.
Pep Guardiola was expected to confirm his departure tonight, which may well be the reason didn’t. Football matches aren’t the only things Pep loves to control. You wouldn’t blame him if he was pretty hacked off at the timing of the story, 24 hours before such a big game. Now he will get to announce or at least confirm it on his terms, maybe on the pitch at the Etihad after Sunday’s game.
Guardiola to decide future at the end of the season
I have one more year of my contract. I will talk to the chairman at the end of the season. I will not tell you here – I have to talk to my chairman, my players and my staff.
I’m the happiest man in the world to be at this extraordinary club.
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Pep Guardiola's reaction
It was a tough game – we knew it would be. They had 10 days to prepare and they have a lot of energy. We fought and found a goal at the end but it was too late.
We could have played tomorrow or Thursday, but [the schedule] is what it is. We put a lot of midfield players to try control their transitions. The players have given everything all season in difficult circumstances.
We were close. On behalf of everyone at Manchester City, we congratulate Mikel and all the staff, players and fans on winning the Premier League. They deserve it.
In other news, Spurs are hunting a late goal at Stamford Bridge that would effectively keep them in the Premier League and relegate West Ham.
I’m going to hang around for Pep Guardiola’s post-match interview, but we have a separate blog for all the reaction to Arsenal’s triumph. They’ve only bloody done it!
Declan Rice was right: it wasn’t done. Hats off to Mikel Arteta, his staff, his players – and the board, who held their nerve when Arsenal were 15th at Christmas in 2020. That 3-1 win over Chelsea on Boxing Day, inspired by two teenagers and a 20-year-old*, was the little acorn that grew into a 14th Premier League title.
* Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli and Emile Smith Rowe
Here is where the story ends. Congratulations, Arsenal, champions of England after 22 years. Farewell then, Pep Guardiola, 10 years of dominance ending in anticlimax. Two domestic cups counts as a disappointment in Pep terms. There will be no treble celebration at Manchester’s Co-op Arena leaving party on Monday. Eli Junior Kroupi wrote his name in north London legend for ever, as the title race reached its conclusion on the south coast. Erling Haaland’s late equaliser was nowhere near enough.
Andoni Iraola has been able to keep his future movements secret and he received a post-match send-off from a club grateful for three seasons of progressive, exiting football, capped off by reaching European football for the first time. A point was enough to claim that. His team’s determination to complete the job was too much for opponents who cracked under the pressure of their situation, perhaps distracted by overnight news of the huge change coming their way.
Strictly speaking City lost the title tonight, but it was a mad 15 minutes at Everton that really cost them. And Arsenal reuniting with an old friend, the 1-0 victory, when it really mattered.
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Arsenal’s Premier League finishes under Mikel Arteta: 8th, 8th, 5th, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 1st. How’s that for a journey?
Arsenal’s title is the biggest story, but it’s far from the only one: Bournemouth have qualified for Europe for the first time in their history. They are now unbeaten in 17 Premier League games, an outrageous achievement, and will play in either the Europa League or the Champions League.
Bournemouth were fabulous tonight, particularly Adrien Truffert, Eli Junior Kroupi and Marcus Tavernier. If anything, the draw flattered City.
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Pep Guardiola goes straight to the fourth official, presumably to query the amount of added time. City’s players are on their haunches, processing the fact it’s all over.
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Full time: Bournemouth 1-1 Man City
Arsenal are champions of England for the first time in 22 years!
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90+7 min Rodri’s shot is desperately blocked. Or was it Cherki’s? I DON’T KNOW.
90+6 min Truffert is booked for a hack at Marmoush. This is City’s last, last, last, last chance. Maybe even the last one.
City have 90 seconds to get another. After a penalty area scramble, Rodri’s shot hit the post and Haaland smoked the rebound into the top corner. Cracking finish.
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GOAL! Bournemouth 1-1 Man City (Haaland 90+5)
Yep.
90+4 min Marmoush’s free-kick hits the wall, then Foden misses his kick on the rebound.
90+3 min Now Kluivert fouls Rodri on the edge of the area. No second yellow card, but a chance for City to give Bournemouth and Arsenal a scare…
90+3 min Kluivert and Rodri have a row, then Khusanov and Scott do likewise. It settles down pretty quickly, after which Kluivert and Rodri are booked.
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90+2 min This result, lest we forget, clinches a European place for Bournemouth, and they are still in with a serious chance of qualifying for the Champions League.
90+1 min Six minutes of added time.
90 min: Brooks hits the post!
David Brooks gallops through on goal after a perfectly timed pass from Unal. Donnarumma comes to meet him and Brooks curls a shot from 20 yards that thumps the right-hand post!
90 min: Double substitution Enes Unal and Lewis Cook replace Evanilson, who had run himself into the ground, and Adam Smith.
88 min: Great chance for Brooks! That could have been it. Brooks, who had loads of time at the far post, screwed a shot too close to Donnarumma from 15 yards after great play from Tavernier on the left. Evanilson then curled not far wide from distance.
87 min “I started following Arsenal in the 2010-11 season, and I’ve never had any expectations of them winning trophies, outside of an FA Cup at least 2-3 times every decade, so I’m largely removed from the rancour that Arsenal’s recent title challenges have elicited,” writes Russell Eberts. “If this result holds, will the narrative be that Arsenal didn’t earn their Premier League trophy, but that City ‘bottled it’ in the end?”
No, no chance. Arsenal are worthy champions; anyone who says otherwise needs a banter transplant. They’ll be called boring champions by some, and I’m sure that will take the gloss off the celebrations that are about to begin in the Gunners pub and elsewhere.
84 min: Bournemouth substitution David Brooks comes on for Rayan.
82 min I think City are cooked. They’ve looked leggy all night, and if he had his time again Pep Guardiola might make more than just one outfield change from the FA Cup final team. Then again, the fresher players have made little impact from the bench.
79 min When the mini-title race began a month ago, we all thought that three away games would be crucial: Arsenal at West Ham, Manchester City at Everton and Bournemouth. How right we were.
78 min A moment of fortune for Petrovic, who spills a dropping ball and grabs it at the second attempt. That could easily have fallen for O’Reilly in front of goal.
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76 min: Man City substitution Omar Marmoush comes on for Jeremy Doku.
76 min: Bournemouth substitution Justin Kluivert replaces Arsenal legend Eli Junior Kroupi.
74 min Cherki wins a corner for City, who appear to have found a second wind. They need a second goal, but they have to score the first first.
The corner pinballs around before Tavernier calmly clears.
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73 min If it stays like this, Pep Guardiola will have failed to win the league in consecutive seasons for the first time in his career. Failure gets us all in the end, if you can call a two-trophy season a failure.
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71 min Doku tries to run Rayan, who ushers the ball behind for a goalkick and celebrates in front of the home fans. This Bournemouth team really are wonderful.
69 min Donnarumma reacts well to punch Rayan’s deflected cross round the post. Bournemouth aren’t just keeping City at bay, they’ve been on top in the last 10 minutes.
68 min After 22 years, Arsenal are now 22 minutes* away from their 14th league title.
* Plus added time, I know.
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67 min Truffert busts his lungs yet again to win a corner for Bournemouth. He’s been magnificent tonight.
Scott’s corner is poor and headed away by Nunes.
66 min “So, next season,” begins Zach Neeley, “the managers of the supposed big six a will be an (either way) even more Arteta’d Arteta, Maresca not only in Pep’s shadow but fired by Chelsea this season in weird circumstances, Chelsea with the also recently fired Alonso who Liverpool always wanted, Liverpool w/ a shouldn’t have been fired but still itching to fire him Slot, and Carrick trying to avoid the “Manchester United manager entropy field” and being the next Ole. So the one with the most chill managerial situation would be, Tottenham? What a world.”
The words ‘chill’ and ‘Tottenham’ have just appeared in the same sentence, and life may never be the same again.
65 min Bournemouth weathered the storm at the start of the second half. Long way to go, obviously, but right now they are pretty comfortable.
64 min “Isn’t the big question of the evening, ‘Where is Pep going next?’” suggests Jeremy Boyce. “He’s made as much a story out of surprise changes of life and place as he has of winning trophies. Bodø/Glimt?”
63 min At the other end, Rodri whistles a rising drive into the crowd from 25 yards.
62 min: Rayan hits the post!
A corner from the right is headed down into the six-yard box by Hill. The ball hits Rayan, who reacts quickly to hook a shot on the turn that hits the outside of the post! Donnarumma might have saved it, I’m not sure.
60 min Kroupi whips a shot over the bar from 20 yards after another delightful Bournemouth move. Eventually Evanilson flocked the ball behind his front leg for the onrushing Kroupi, who couldn’t do the needful on this occasion.
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59 min Hill is booked for a foul on Savinho.
58 min A goal is coming, I’m just not sure which end it will be scored at. Bournemouth are still counter-attacking with plenty of menace, and Adrien Truffert is a bullet train on the left.
57 min “Maybe Fifa should introduce a separate colour of card for sarcasm offenses,” writes Justin Kavanagh. “Like grey for its ambiguity. Or just black, in honour of Diego Simeone’s services to sarcasm.”
56 min: Triple substitution for Man City Savinho, Rayan Cherki and Phil Foden replace Mateo Kovacic, Bernardo Silva… and Antoine Semenyo, who gets a lovely ovation from the home fans. How refreshing. (That’s not sarcasm.)
53 min Rodri’s deep cross leads to a bit of pinball before Bernardo Silva’s shot hits a defender and loops through to Petrovic. City knocked politely at the door in the first half; now they are hoofing it.
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52 min Truffert’s low cross is stabbed towards goal by Evanilson, under pressure at the near post, and Donnarumma dives to push the shot round the post. It was going wide but he took no chances.
Chelsea v Tottenham latest
There’s been an early goal in the game at Stamford Bridge. Simon Burnton can tell you who scored it.
50 min Not for the first time in recent weeks, City have upped the tempo after (presumably) a half-time brollocking from Pep Guardiola. They are attacking with much greater intensity, though Bournemouth still look very dangerous in transition.
49 min Acchh I got the half-time quiz question wrong!
“Hi Rob,” writes O Harrison. “It was Mark Viduka, not Harry Kewell, who scored the goal that did for Arsenal in 2003. (Kewell’s opener was memorable though!)”
Given it was one of the happiest days of my life, you’d think I’d remember Viduka’s goal.
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46 min: Fine save by Petrovic!
City almost equalised inside the first minute of the second half. Erling Haaland runs at a backpedalling defence and plays a deft through pass to Nico O’Reilly, whose shot from 10 yards is brilliantly saved to his right by Petrovic.
O’Reilly telegraphed the shot ever so slightly but Petrovic reacted superbly to reach to his right and keep it out.
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46 min No changes yet from Pep Guardiola as Bournemouth get the second half under way. Andoni Iraola won’t want to change a thing.
Our half-time quiz winner is… Boris Starling
They all scored a goal which ensured a team not playing at the time would become champions - ie what Kroupi’s goal will do if the scoreline stays the same.
Tommy the Bairn, Ciarán McCabe and Chris Healy also sent in the correct answer, although I think my favourite answers were these.
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Charles Antaki “They’re all still on 25-year contracts at Chelsea.”
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Richard Hirst “They all have children in the Man City academy.”
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“I’ve been telling everyone who’ll listen, i.e. mostly no one, that Kroupi has Thierry Henry-like talent,” writes Kári Tulinius. “And now he’s gone and scored a Thierry Henry-like goal to put Arsenal on the brink of its first non-Thierry Henry title in 22 years.”
Half-time quiz
What do these footballers have in common? The first person to email the correct answer wins an imaginary prize.
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Nick Henry
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Julian Darby
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Michael Hughes
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Dean Holdsworth
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Harry KewellMark Viduka -
Gilberto Silva
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Eden Hazard
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Jay Rodriguez
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Willian
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Caglar Soyuncu
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Taiwo Awoniyi
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Half-time reading
Half time: Bournemouth 1-0 Manchester City
You can’t smell solid sterling silver, but if you could Arsenal’s nostrils would be going ten to the dozen right now. They could be 45 minutes away from the Premier League title after Eli Junior Kroupi’s majestic goal gave Bournemouth a half-time lead against Manchester City.
City dominated possession without seriously testing Dorde Petrovic. Unless they win this game, Arsenal will be champions – and Bournemouth will qualify for Europe for the first time.
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45+1 min Two minutes of added time. Guehi is down after a bit of a wrestling match with Evanilson. He’ll be okay.
45 min Semenyo shoots straight at Petrovic from the edge of the area.
43 min No reply to speak on from City. They’ve dominated possession throughout the half but are crying out for the wit, invention and personality of Rayan Cherki.
Truffert gallopsed down the left and screwed an excellent pass back towards the unmarked Kroupi on the edge of the area. He opened his body, used Khusanov as a screen and whipped a majestic curler into the far corner. He is outrageously good for a teenager, and his goal has moved Arsenal even closer to the Premier League title.
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GREAT GOAL! Bournemouth 1-0 Man City (Kroupi 39)
Eli Junior Kroupi puts Bournemouth ahead with a beauty!
38 min “Regarding the Man City away strip currently being sported,” begins Ian Copestake. “Its designers Puma state, and I kid you not, that it’s ‘all-over, tonal raindrop pattern cascades across the gunmetal-grey background to evoke the city’s overcast skies and wet weather’.”
Target market, Ian, target market. If they’d ripped off the Joy Division Unknown Pleasures cover I’d be all over it.
37 min Tyler Adams is booked for sarcasm. He applauded when the referee gave a foul against Erling Haaland for a challenge on James Hill.
How do you prove sarcasm?
35 min The referee Anthony Taylor has a stern word – several – with one of the Bournemouth backroom staff. Not sure why.
34 min It’s still a high-class game. Sadly, a lot of that class is being demonstrated without the ball, so it remains a match of few chances.
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33 min “I have no claim of being a soothsayer,” writes Jones from Nairobi, “but methinks that should Arsenal get the monkey off their back this season by winning the damn thing, they are likely to dominate for the foreseeable future. Don’t you think Pep has spied that possibility and walked away at an opportune moment, leaving the business of rebuilding to the poor guy who’s got to fill his enormous boots?”
I’m not sure about that. I assume he’s just shattered after a decade at City. Ordinarily he’d embrace the challenge, as he did when Liverpool won the league at a canter in 2019-20, and he has helpdd his successor enormously by starting the rebuild this season. Not all great managers bother to do that.
28 min Silva’s outswinging corner finds the head of Rodri, and Evanilson stoops to head clear just in front of the goalline. I think that would have gone in, though it’s hard to be sure as the header was moving quite slowly. Haaland then smashes a shot from a tight angle that hits somebody – either a defender or Petrovic – and goes behind for another corner.
27 min A cross from Doku deflects off Smith and flashes into the side netting. Petrovic had it covered.
26 min Nah, it’s never too early, not when there’s so much at stake.
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
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| 1 | Arsenal | 37 | 43 | 82 |
| 2 | Man City | 37 | 43 | 78 |
| 3 | Man Utd | 37 | 16 | 68 |
| 4 | Aston Villa | 37 | 6 | 62 |
| 5 | Liverpool | 37 | 10 | 59 |
25 min It’s too early for the as-it-stands table, right?
22 min There haven’t been many chances but this is a high-class game between two extremely good sides. I envy the supporters of whichever club Andoni Iraola joins this summer.
21 min “I definitely want City to win the league but I almost changed my mind when I saw that strip on the photo at the top of the blog,” writes Richard Hirst. “In what world do people get paid good money for coming up with kits like that?”
I’m not sure we’re the target market, Richard.
19 min Some classy hold-up play from Kroupi allows Bournemouth some respite after another extended period of City possession. He is so accomplished for a teenager.
15 min: What a miss by Evanilson!
A one touch, zig-zag move from Bournemouth ends with Tavernier fizzing a low cross that is somehow lifted over the bar from six yards by Evanilson.
I think the flag went up against Evanilson, though on the replay it looked really close. I guess we’ll never know, because he clodhopped it over the bar. The build-up was lovely.
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14 min After a long spell of City possession, Khusanov whacks a long-range shot into orbit.
14 min “It would be impossibly churlish to deny Pep Guardiola every plaudit going; let’s put aside all the other stuff as he departs the stage,” writes Charles Antkai. “Of course he’s on everybody’s list of top managers of all time - citation probably not needed. As for this evening, in a spirit of generosity from an Arsenal fan, I hope he bows out in his penultimate game by thrashing Bournemouth, and I mean that in the spirit of Luciano Pavarotti in his immortal interview with Bobby Charlton.”
12 min: Semenyo has a goal disallowed He ran onto a through pass from Haaland and beat Petrovic with his left foot. VAR confirms the decision. There wasn’t a huge amount in it but Semenyo started his run a split-second too soon.
11 min The game is starting to settle into the expected pattern of City possession and Bournemouth transition.
8 min There’s an excellent pace to the game, with both teams showing plenty of intent in possession. More please!
5 min: Chance for City Semenyo gets to the byline and cuts the ball back sharply towards Doku on the edge of the area. He dummies a defender but shoots too close to Petrovic with his left foot.
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3 min A fast start from Bournemouth, who are hounding City all over the pitch. City play through the press and Kovacic’s pass almost puts Haaland through on goal. It was James Hill, I think, who made a vital interception.
1 min City get the match under way on a chilly evening on the south coast.
A reminder of tonight’s teams
Bournemouth (4-2-3-1) Petrovic; Smith, Hill, Senesi, Truffert; Adams, Scott; Rayan, Kroupi, Tavernier; Evanilson.
Subs: Cook, Brooks, Gannon-Doak, Diakite, Kluivert, Adli, Unal, Toth, Mandas.
Man City (poss 4-3-3) Donnarumma; Nunes, Khusanov, Guehi, O’Reilly; Bernardo, Rodri, Kovacic; Semenyo, Haaland, Doku.
Subs: Trafford, Dias, Reijnders, Stones, Marmoush, Cherki, Gvardiol, Savinho, Foden.
Referee Anthony Taylor.
Andoni Iraola's pre-match thoughts
It will be an emotional night, but probably after the game. The game is so difficult – there is so much to prepare for and our focus is all on that.
For us it’s massive. We want to play in Europe next season; we know we are close but we are not quite there. We will give our best and let’s see it’s enough.
[Mikel Arteta] will be supporting us today. I understand everything around the game, but I want to win because it’s massive for us.
Arteta and Iraola were childhood friends who were born three months and six miles apart.
Pep Guardiola's pre-match interview
Sky Sports, who are covering the game in England, say it would not be fair to ask him about his future until after the game.
This is a tough, tough opponent. We have to win this game and then see what happens. This is the last effort. Two games, tonight and on Sunday.
How many games are Bournemouth unbeaten? [16] It speaks for itself.
[Have the overnight reports had any effect on City’s preparation for this game?] Zero.
There’s another big game at Stamford Bridge, where Spurs will effectively ensure survival if they get a point against Chelsea. That game kicks off at 8.15pm, and you can follow it with Simon Burnton.
“What are your dreams, what are your dreams?” To comprehend what drove Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, his interaction with autograph hunters in January 2025 after an 8-0 FA Cup win over Salford City is instructive.
The group comprises all younger people apart from one man who tells him: “I used to be a chef.” Guardiola’s reply cuts to the quick and reads as a mantra heard surely by the 85 players he used in 10 Premier League seasons. “Continue to do it. Prepare better,” he says.
This ethos of improvement and perfection-seeking swept Guardiola’s City to the 2023 treble, the 2018 title with a record 100 points as part of a domestic treble, and to a historic four consecutive championships, the last of these a year after the winning Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup, when fatigue might have caused decline.
“The irony of Man City’s dentist’s appointment in Bournemouth today,” says Peter Oh, “is that it’s Arsenal who could come out of it with a crown.”
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Breaking news: Southampton kicked out of Championship playoffs
Southampton have been expelled from the Championship playoff final and docked four points after being found guilty of spying on Middlesbrough.
An independent disciplinary commission handed down the punishment after the English Football League charged Southampton with a breach of its regulations.
It means Middlesbrough, who were beaten by Southampton in the semi-finals, will face Hull for a place in the Premier League. The final remains scheduled for Saturday at Wembley. Southampton have the right to appeal and the commission aims to resolve any appeal by the end of Wednesday.
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“I just thought it was fake news,” says the Bournemouth defender James Hill, casting his mind back to the time Barcelona sent a scout to watch him play for Fleetwood. The game in question was a League One defeat by Burton and although the then 19-year-old was highly regarded, there were a few double-takes when the request to attend landed. “‘No, that can’t be right.’ And then afterwards someone told me they did come to the game: ‘Oh, incredible.’”
At that point Hill, who at the age of 16 became Fleetwood’s youngest player, was fresh from making his England Under-20 debut and a couple of months later an under-21 call-up followed, though a knee injury prevented him from joining Marc Guéhi, Morgan Gibbs-White, Cole Palmer and co. “I remember being on the phone to Lee Carsley,” he says. “‘I’m sorry, but I’m in the scanner at the moment, I don’t think I’m going to be able to make it judging from the pain I’m in.’”
Premier League clubs and others across Europe noted an athletic and powerful centre-back with dozens of games under his belt, and Bournemouth acted, paying Fleetwood £1.2m, eclipsing the £1m the club received for Jamie Vardy. Leicester laughed when Fleetwood insisted on an England clause in the deal for Vardy and Fleetwood inserted one when Hill joined Bournemouth, too. Hill is being monitored by England and it is impossible not to be impressed by the progress of the 24-year-old.
Pep Guardiola on Andoni Iraola’s Bournemouth
They don’t let you breathe. When a team is so intense, always when fatigue comes due to the amount of games, they can reduce this tempo a little bit, but with 10 days to prepare, I expect an intense team.
Team news
Tyler Adams replaces Ryan Christie in the Bournemouth midfield. That’s the only change from the team that won at Fulham ten days ago.
Pep Guardiola makes two changes to his FA Cup-winning side: Gianluigi Donnarumma and Mateo Kovacic replace James Trafford and Omar Marhoush. That probably means a switch to 4-3-3.
Bournemouth (4-2-3-1) Petrovic; Smith, Hill, Senesi, Truffert; Adams, Scott; Rayan, Kroupi, Tavernier; Evanilson.
Subs: Cook, Brooks, Gannon-Doak, Diakite, Kluivert, Adli, Unal, Toth, Mandas.
Man City (poss 4-3-3) Donnarumma; Nunes, Khusanov, Guehi, O’Reilly; Bernardo, Rodri, Kovacic; Semenyo, Haaland, Doku.
Subs: Trafford, Dias, Reijnders, Stones, Marmoush, Cherki, Gvardiol, Savinho, Foden.
Referee Anthony Taylor.
Antoine Semenyo on his return to Bournemouth
It’ll be emotional for sure. It’s good to be back and to see everyone, but we’ve got a job to do.
I know how tough it will be against Bournemouth but we’ve got a gameplan and hopefully it works.
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“Riddle corner,” begins Peter Oh. “What is the most popular summer fruit among Arsenal fans? Cherries!”
There’s got to be a Müller Corner gag in there somewhere.
City line up Maresca as Guardiola replacement
Pep Guardiola has informed Manchester City’s players that he will leave the club after Sunday’s final Premier League game of the season against Aston Villa.
The manager felt obliged to update his squad after news of his departure broke on Monday night, taking him by surprise while he was preparing for Tuesday’s match at Bournemouth.
Guardiola had hoped to keep his decision to leave City private for longer, so as not to provide a distraction. City need to beat Bournemouth to take the title race to the last day after Arsenal moved five points clear by defeating Burnley.
Guardiola is leaving after 10 years with a season remaining on his contract and City have identified Enzo Maresca as his replacement. Chelsea are in line for sizeable compensation for Maresca from City after the Italian’s acrimonious departure from Chelsea on New Year’s Day.
Preamble
Well that escalated quickly. This time yesterday, Pep Guardiola’s departure from Manchester City was but a tentative rumour. Now it is common knowledge, even if has yet to be officially confirmed. That should happen tonight when Guardola speaks either before or after City’s vital game at Bourbnemouth.
There’s still a chance Guardiola could leave English football with another treble on his CV. But if City are to take the title race to the last day, and test Arsenal’s nerve to the full, they need to overcome a Bournemouth side who are unbeaten in 16 Premier League games.
Bournemouth are also saying goodbye to arguably their greatest ever manager. Tonight is Andoni Iraola’s final home game, a chance to say goodbye in style: if Bournemouth get a point, they will qualify for Europe for the first time in their history.
Kick-off 7.30pm BST.
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
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| 1 | Arsenal | 37 | 43 | 82 |
| 2 | Man City | 36 | 43 | 77 |
| 3 | Man Utd | 37 | 16 | 68 |
| 4 | Aston Villa | 37 | 6 | 62 |
| 5 | Liverpool | 37 | 10 | 59 |
| 6 | AFC Bournemouth | 36 | 4 | 55 |
| 7 | Brighton | 37 | 9 | 53 |
| 8 | Brentford | 37 | 3 | 52 |
| 9 | Sunderland | 37 | -7 | 51 |
| 10 | Chelsea | 36 | 6 | 49 |
| 11 | Newcastle | 37 | 0 | 49 |
| 12 | Everton | 37 | -2 | 49 |
| 13 | Fulham | 37 | -6 | 49 |
| 14 | Leeds | 37 | -4 | 47 |
| 15 | Crystal Palace | 37 | -9 | 45 |
| 16 | Nottm Forest | 37 | -3 | 43 |
| 17 | Tottenham Hotspur | 36 | -9 | 38 |
| 18 | West Ham | 37 | -22 | 36 |
| 19 | Burnley | 37 | -37 | 21 |
| 20 | Wolverhampton | 37 | -41 | 19 |
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