With the victories of Tottenham 5-1 in the Global against Bodø/Glimt and Manchester United 7-1 in El Global, before Athletic Club, It is confirmed that the Europa League final will be among English teams And therefore, The Premier will have six teams competing in Champions next season.
The Manchester endures another win at Athletic and will play the Europa League final
Being both Tottenham and United in the middle part of the table, their options to qualify for European competition seemed tiny, but winning the Europa League could open the doors that were closed. And is that, The Europa League winning team gets a direct pass to the Champions League.
An unprecedented situation: six teams from the same league in Champions
Before the certainty that an English team will be the Europa League champion, a situation never given before: that the same country had six teams disputing the same edition of the Champions League. All this is due to the new European competition format, in which teams can be classified through three different ways: plazas Champions assigned to its league, the extra square granted by the UEFA coefficient to his league and the achievement of the Europa League.
Premier League classification table.
At the moment, Liverpool is the only team that mathematically has the insured squareFor the next edition. Arsenal, Manchester City, Newcastle, Chelsea, Nottingham and Aston Villa play the other four places in three decisive days. Those of Arteta and Guardiola leave with advantage to strengthen their appearance in the maximum European competitioneven so, they should not relax since the rest of the teams follow them very closely.
At the moment, the Chelsea It would be the fifth classified that would enter the Champions League due to the UEFA and heSixth will be decided on May 21 between Tottenham and Manchester United, depending on whom of the two proclaim champion of the End of the Europa League.
