Chapter 577 The Most Suspenseful Premier League Finale in History

In the away game against Brighton, Mourinho made a comprehensive rotation of Manchester United's lineup, and even Bruno sat on the bench. After all, no matter what the result of today's game is, it will not affect the fact that Manchester United has won the championship in advance.

After a simple pre-match welcoming ceremony, the game started soon.

Perhaps it was because the pre-match welcoming ceremony made Brighton players depressed, or perhaps it was because Brighton has not yet completely landed and needs some points to ensure successful relegation. After the game started, Brighton was very active on the field.

However, it was Manchester United who scored the first goal away.

In the 3rd minute of the game, Rashford passed the free kick from the left into the penalty area, and Fellaini scored a goal.

Just when Manchester United players began to celebrate the goal excitedly, the referee was prompted by the linesman and blew off Manchester United's goal.

Manchester United players were very dissatisfied with the goal being blown off, and even the commentator said that it was controversial for the referee team to blow off Manchester United's goal.

Manchester United players were happy for nothing, and the score returned to 0:0.

Then, Brighton, who played at home, launched a wave of attacks. The shots of Knocket and Izquierdo in the penalty area were blocked by Romero. Stephens' long-range shot hit the right post and went wide. Gross' low shot from the edge of the penalty area was also confiscated by Romero. Proper passed the ball, and Murray's half-volley shot from 25 yards was saved by Romero.

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In the first half of the game, although Brighton's offensive was very strong and suppressed Manchester United, who were mostly substitutes, on the field, their players failed to seize the opportunities created and take the lead.

For Manchester United, the team's offense lacked threats under the large-scale rotation.

In the end, neither side scored a goal in the first half and entered the halftime break with a score of 0:0.

During the halftime break, Mourinho was somewhat dissatisfied with the team's performance in the first half. He criticized the players for their slackness on the field and asked the players to be more active in the second half.

After the start of the second half, Manchester United players were indeed more active than in the first half and also got some shooting opportunities. But neither Mata's shot nor Fellaini's header from the corner kick really tested Brighton's goalkeeper Ryan.

In the 57th minute, the home team Brighton broke the deadlock. Izquierdo broke through Damian's defense on the left side of the penalty area and made a cross. Gross's header from the edge of the small penalty area was blocked by Rojo on the goal line, but the goal line technology prompted the referee to score a valid goal.

After the goal was scored, Manchester United launched a counterattack, but unfortunately the effect was not good, and several shots failed to hit the target.

As time passed, Manchester United's backward situation has not been changed.

Bruno couldn't sit still and took the initiative to ask Mourinho to play.

According to Mourinho, the team has won the championship anyway, and the win or loss of this game is not important, so Bruno and other main players were arranged to rest. Now seeing Bruno's initiative to ask to play, and the team's next schedule is not too intensive, he agreed to Bruno's request.

In the 72nd minute of the game, Bruno came on as a substitute and replaced Mata.

At the same time, Damian, who made a mistake when the goal was scored just now, was replaced by Luke Shaw.

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"Manchester United's attack was passed to the front court and handed to Rashford."

"Rashford retreated to get the ball with his back, turned around and passed it to Bruno..."

"Bruno quickly inserted..."

"He was very fast, and the Brighton players stepped forward to defend..."

"Bruno dribbled the ball horizontally past the defender and shot directly with his left foot!"

"The ball went in!!!"

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLL!!!!!!!"

"Bruno! A goal from Bruno!"

"Just nine minutes after coming on as a substitute, Bruno broke through the home team's Brighton. Leighton's goal!"

"This is also Bruno's 40th league goal this season, and he continues to refresh his own Premier League single-season goal record!"

"And in this season's European Golden Boot rankings, Bruno is also far ahead with 80 points, followed by Barcelona star Yosi with 66 points, Liverpool striker Salah with 62 points, and Bruno's Manchester United teammate Harry Kane with 60 points!"

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Bruno seemed extremely excited. He was so excited that he rushed out of the stadium, rushed all the way to the corner flagpole, and slid to his knees in front of everyone.

He was simply intoxicated by this feeling that made the home fans speechless.

He leaned back and could clearly see the angry but helpless look of Brighton fans in the stands.

They had no way to deal with Bruno!

Manchester United players also rushed towards Bruno, and everyone seemed extremely excited.

Although the outcome of today's game has no impact on Manchester United, which has already won the championship, which player would refuse to not lose or even win?

You know, Manchester United is still unbeaten this season. If they can continue to remain unbeaten in the last three league games, they will become the second team to achieve an unbeaten Premier League season after Arsenal.

Moreover, as long as Manchester United can get a draw today, they will become the first team in the history of the Premier League to score more than 100 points in a single season!

The team performed poorly in the first 70 minutes, and the players felt a little frustrated. As a result, Bruno scored a goal just 9 minutes after he came on the field, helping the team to equalize the score.

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However, Bruno's goal was also the last goal of the two sides in this game.

In the end, Manchester United relied on this goal to tie Brighton 1:1 away from home. And with this draw, Manchester United also got the 100th point of the season, becoming the first team in the history of the Premier League to score more than 100 points in a single season, and even the first team in the history of the English top league to score more than 100 points in a single season.

For Manchester United, this is a season that is enough to be written into the history books. In addition to winning the Premier League championship, Manchester United has created five records in the Premier League before this game, including consecutive wins (24 games), most goals in a single season (115 goals), most wins (32 games), points (99 points), and tied the record for away wins in a single season (15 games).

However, Manchester United did not stop there. Being able to create more records became the driving force for Manchester United after winning the championship.

Mourinho said in an interview after the game: "Although we have won the championship, the season is not over yet. We will work hard to win, there is no doubt about it."

Although Manchester United is the first Premier League team to get 100 points in a single season, they can only rank fourth in the history of the top five European leagues. The previous three teams were Juventus (102 points) in the 2013-2014 season, Barcelona (100 points) in the 2012-2013 season, and Real Madrid (100 points) in the 2011-2012 season.

Outside the top five leagues, Benfica also scored 101 points in the 1990-1991 season.

In the history of the English top league, if converted to the three-point system, the previous record was 98 points created by Liverpool in the 1978-1979 season, but there were 42 games at that time.

Manchester United also broke another record held by Chelsea. At present, Manchester United's goal difference is as high as 93 goals, breaking the record of 71 goals set by the Blues in the 2009-2010 season.

In fact, on the first day of the new year in 2018, Manchester United broke Chelsea's record. At that time, they defeated Everton 4:0 away in the 22nd round of the Premier League, with a goal difference of 74 goals, thus surpassing Chelsea's 71 goals.

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Four days later, on the evening of May 10, at the London Olympic Stadium, a supplementary match of the 31st round of the Premier League was held between West Ham United and Manchester United.

After a dull battle, the two teams drew 0:0.

So far, Manchester United is only one game away from the unbeaten season!

And their unbeaten record in the Premier League has also been rewritten to 39 games, just one step away from Chelsea's 40-game unbeaten record.

As long as they remain unbeaten in the final game of the season, they will tie Chelsea's unbeaten record!

Similarly, as long as Manchester United can get a draw in the final game of this season, they will tie the single-season points record of 102 points in the top five leagues created by Juventus in the 2013-2014 season.

Even if they can win the game, they will also create a new single-season points record in the top five leagues with 104 points!

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On May 13, 2018, at 3 pm local time in the UK, all 10 games of the 38th round of the Premier League 2017-2018 season were played at this moment.

However, due to Manchester United's early championship, there are not many focuses in this season's Premier League final game, especially the lack of the most important focus of winning the championship, as well as the relegation battle and the Champions League qualification.

Of course, there are still some focuses, such as whether Manchester United can remain unbeaten in this round of games, thereby creating a record of winning the championship without losing a game in the season.

The current Premier League standings are as follows:

Manchester United has 32 wins and 5 draws in 37 rounds, scored 116 goals and conceded 21 goals, with a goal difference of 95 and 101 points ranking first;

Manchester City has 30 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses in 37 rounds, scored 105 goals and conceded 32 goals, with a goal difference of 73 and 94 points ranking second;

Tottenham has 21 wins, 9 draws and 7 losses in 37 rounds, scored 69 goals and conceded 34 goals, with a goal difference of 35 and 72 points ranking third;

Liverpool has 20 wins, 11 draws and 6 losses in 37 rounds, scored 79 goals, 40 goals conceded, 39 goals difference, 71 points, ranking fourth;

Chelsea 37 rounds 20 wins, 7 draws, 10 losses, 62 goals scored, 37 goals conceded, 25 goals difference, 67 points, ranking fifth;

Arsenal 37 rounds 18 wins, 6 draws, 13 losses, 72 goals scored, 53 goals conceded, 19 goals difference, 60 points, ranking sixth;

Burnley 37 rounds 14 wins, 11 draws, 12 losses, 35 goals scored, 38 goals conceded, -3 goals difference, 53 points, ranking seventh.

These are the top seven teams in the standings, and they are also the seven teams participating in the European war in the new season.

This is mainly because Manchester United has won the League Cup this season, and Manchester United and Chelsea, who have reached the FA Cup final, have already secured their European qualifications, so the last qualification for the Europa League has been postponed to the seventh team in the standings.

And the seventh Burnley is 4 points ahead of the eighth Everton, and has already secured the seventh ranking, which makes the qualification for the European war no suspense.

The relegation teams were also decided before the last round. Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion with 29 points, and Swansea City with 33 points, have already secured the three relegation spots.