This Monday, Newcastle secured qualification for the Football Champions League, 20 years after the last appearance, by drawing 0-0 at home with Leicester, in a match on matchday 37 of the English League.
With just one point to go to ensure their return to the ‘Champions’, the ‘magpies’ achieved their goal in a goalless match and will now return to UEFA’s main club competition, in what will be their third participation, after 1997/98 and 2002/03.
With this result, Newcastle is provisionally third in the league, with 70 points, but could be surpassed by Manchester United, fourth with 69 and who has played one game less.
However, the ‘magpies’ are four points behind Liverpool, which is fifth, with one game left for each team, which ensures one of the four places to qualify for the Champions League.
Leicester, meanwhile, remains in the relegation zone, in 18th place, with 31 points, the same as Leeds, which is 19, with both teams two points behind Everton, 17 and which is the first team for above the ‘waterline’. ‘.
Of these three teams will come the two that accompany the already relegated Southampton in the descent to the second division of English football, with everything to be decided in the last round.
Manchester City, owned by the Portuguese Bernardo Silva and Rúben Dias, has already secured the title, achieving the third consecutive championship and the ninth in its history.
Source: TSF
