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05/24 07:43 CDT West Ham and Tottenham fight to avoid Premier League relegation
as Guardiola and Salah bid farewell
West Ham and Tottenham fight to avoid Premier League relegation as Guardiola
and Salah bid farewell
By STEVE DOUGLAS
AP Sports Writer
West Ham and Tottenham are battling to avoid the final relegation spot heading
into the last round of the Premier League on Sunday, when English soccer will
bid farewell to Pep Guardiola and Mohamed Salah.
West Ham has it all to do to maintain its 14-year top-flight status, with the
team from east London in third-to-last place and two points behind Tottenham
with a goal difference deficit of 12.
West Ham must, therefore, beat Leeds at home and also needs Tottenham to lose
at home to Everton.
Tottenham last played in the second tier in the 1977-78 season and would be the
biggest team to be relegated from England's top flight in a generation.
With the title already clinched by Arsenal, the other sporting focus is on the
race to seal the final European spots.
Sixth place will be enough to get Champions League qualification this season if
Aston Villa --- the newly crowned Europa League champion --- finishes in fifth
place.
For Villa to drop from fourth to fifth and Liverpool to climb from fifth to
fourth, Villa needs to lose to Manchester City and Liverpool has to beat
Brentford.
Bournemouth, which visits Nottingham Forest, is currently in sixth --- three
points ahead of seventh-place Brighton, which hosts Manchester United.
Big-name exits
Guardiola will take charge of his final game at Man City after a record-breaking 10-year spell. Also leaving City at the end of the season are stalwarts Bernardo Silva and John Stones, so it promises to be an emotional afternoon at Etihad Stadium. Salah will play his last game for Liverpool after nine years, but manager Arne Slot hasn't confirmed that the Egypt winger will start after a critical recent social-media post. ___ Steve Douglas is at https://twitter.com/sdouglas80 ___ AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer
Big-name exits
Guardiola will take charge of his final game at Man City after a record-breaking 10-year spell. Also leaving City at the end of the season are stalwarts Bernardo Silva and John Stones, so it promises to be an emotional afternoon at Etihad Stadium. Salah will play his last game for Liverpool after nine years, but manager Arne Slot hasn't confirmed that the Egypt winger will start after a critical recent social-media post. ___ Steve Douglas is at https://twitter.com/sdouglas80 ___ AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer
