The English premier league (EPL) 2020/21 curtain has been drawn closed with Manchester City finally laying hands on the EPL title they won earlier in May with two games to spare. City celebrated winning their fifth Premier League title in stunning style as they demolished Everton 5-0 at the Etihad Stadium, thereby finishing the season on 86 point while Liverpool is a surprise top three finishers after enduring a turbulent season with a 2-0 victory over crystal palace, ensuring they finish 5 points behind second-place manchester united and a champions league place guaranteed.
Chelsea, Leicester, West Ham, Tottenham, Arsenal and Leeds are the teams who complete the top half of the table. Leicester City was on the verge of finishing in the champions league places before falling to a 2-4 defeat to Tottenham who finished 7th on the table to become the first English team to play in the UEFA Europa Conference League for the 2021/22 season.
With 19 clean sheets kept, Ederson Santana de Moraes of champions Manchester City has been awarded the golden gloves. Having scored one and set another up, Harry Kane secured both the Golden Boot and Playmaker of the Season awards, presented by Coca-Cola, with league-high 23 goals and 14 assists in 2020/21. He has won the Golden Boot three times, becoming only the third player to manage that hat-trick after Premier League Hall of Fame inductees, Alan Shearer and Thierry Henry.
In other news, Sergio Aguero came off the bench to net twice on his farewell appearance for Manchester City to break Wayne Rooney's Premier League record of most goals scored for one club. The Argentinian's six-minute brace took him to 184 Premier League goals for City, one ahead of Rooney's 183 for Man Utd as Everton were beaten 5-0 at the Etihad Stadium; Joe Willock struck for a seventh consecutive Premier League match to become just the second Newcastle United player to score in seven in a row after Alan Shearer and the youngest player in the competition’s history to do so.
The following persons bid farewell to their respective clubs, at the Molineux, where Nuno Espirito Santo, Roy Hodgson, Gini Wijnaldum and Sergio Agüero.
