Title Won & Relegation Done... This Is What Else To Look Out For

With 4 rounds of Premier League fixtures near to play, nan cardinal issues person already been wrapped up - and it's happened successful grounds time.

Runaway leaders Liverpool were crowned champions aft thumping Tottenham Hotspur 5-1 astatine Anfield connected Sunday afternoon.

The erstwhile day, Ipswich Town followed Southampton and Leicester City into nan Championship erstwhile they mislaid 3-0 astatine Champions League-chasing Newcastle.

That intends it is nan first clip successful Premier League history that each 3 relegations and nan champions person been confirmed pinch 4 games remaining, surpassing nan erstwhile grounds from nan 2020-21 season.

So what other is location to get excited astir earlier nan 2024-25 run draws to a adjacent connected 25 May?

Quite a bit, successful fact.

While it is improbable that 11 Premier League teams will extremity up successful Europe adjacent season, astatine slightest 5 are guaranteed a Champions League spot via nan convention because of England's capacity successful Uefa's coefficient rankings.

That number could emergence to six if Manchester United aliases Tottenham triumph nan Europa League, aliases moreover 7 successful nan improbable arena that Champions League semi-finalists Arsenal triumph successful nan title and decorativeness extracurricular nan apical five.

Only 5 points abstracted Aston Villa successful seventh and third-placed Newcastle, but nan fistful of sides beneath Unai Emery's squad still harbour hopes of capping memorable campaigns pinch European qualification.

Fulham, Brighton, Bournemouth, Brentford and moreover FA Cup finalists Crystal Palace, who are 12th, are still successful contention pinch 4 games left.

And let's not hide sixth-placed Nottingham Forest, who are looking to suffice for Europe's premier title for nan first clip since 1980 aft a genuinely magnificent play nether Nuno Espirito Santo.

After their relegation was confirmed connected 8 April, Southampton person small but pridefulness to play for this season.

Well, that and beating Derby's grounds Premier League debased of 11 points from nan 2007-08 season.

Saints request conscionable 1 much constituent to debar nan ignominy of becoming nan joint-worst Premier League squad of each time, but fixed their dreadful shape this season, it is acold from guaranteed they will get it.

Aside from a important travel to Everton (see below), Southampton look chap relegated broadside Leicester arsenic good arsenic Manchester City and Arsenal successful their last 4 games.

Stats supplier Opta expects Simon Rusk's squad to get 2 draws from those games, which would assistance them connected to 13 points overall.

No pressure, Saints.

With nan relegation places already group successful stone, nan remaining teams astatine nan bottommost are progressive successful a alternatively unglamorous title to debar finishing conscionable supra nan driblet zone.

Wolverhampton Wanderers, who person won their past six successful nan apical flight, apical that mini-league, which besides features Everton, Manchester United, Tottenham and West Ham United.

Everton fans whitethorn person accepted 17th spot earlier this season, but nan Toffees are hoping to decorativeness arsenic precocious arsenic imaginable and commencement nan 2025-26 play astatine nan Bramley-Moore Dock stadium pinch momentum connected their side.

West Ham person besides managed to stave disconnected relegation, but head Graham Potter - who has picked up only 13 points successful his 14 convention games since succeeding Julen Lopetegui - said aft Saturday's conclusion astatine Brighton that nan Hammers' play has "not been bully enough".

Manchester United and Tottenham person some endured woeful convention campaigns, sloppy of wherever they extremity up finishing.

But being nan worst broadside to debar nan driblet - points-wise, astatine slightest - would beryllium a immense root of embarrassment, moreover if 1 of nan 2 teams ends up lifting nan Europa League.

David Moyes and his players person 2 much location games to look guardant to earlier their 133-year enactment astatine Goodison Park comes to an end.

The Toffees big Ipswich adjacent play earlier facing Southampton successful their last crippled astatine nan stadium, which opened successful 1892.

It is guaranteed to beryllium a poignant, emotionally charged juncture - 1 nan Toffees will beryllium hopeless to people pinch triumph against nan league's bottommost side.

But moreover supporters of different clubs will consciousness a pang of sadness erstwhile Z-Cars, nan soundtrack to nan commencement of each Everton location game, rings retired for nan last clip earlier kick-off connected 18 May.

The move to nan 52,888-capacity Bramley-Moor Dock crushed will people nan commencement of a caller era for nan club.

After months of speculation, some Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk person signed caller Liverpool contracts successful caller weeks.

However, pinch conscionable a fistful of games remaining, nan early of Trent Alexander-Arnold remains undecided.

Real Madrid are successful talks to motion nan 26-year-old full-back, who is successful nan last 3 months of his existent statement and free to talk a move overseas - but a woody has yet to beryllium agreed.

A cardinal personnel of nan Reds squad that won nan Premier League, Champions League and Club World Cup successful nan abstraction of conscionable 14 months successful 2019 and 2020, Alexander-Arnold was tight-lipped aft scoring Liverpool's victor astatine Leicester past weekend, saying: "I'm not going to speak connected my situation."

There whitethorn still beryllium different twist successful a transportation saga that has been hanging complete nan nine for immoderate time.

But if nan section boy they telephone "the Scouser successful our team" does determine to leave, Alexander-Arnold could hardly wish for a amended send-off than lifting nan Premier League trophy astatine a packed Anfield connected Sunday.