Manchester City regained the Premier League title on Tuesday after rival Manchester United fell to a 1-2 defeat at home to Leicester City on Tuesday.
Man City has 80 points from 35 matches in the 2020-21 Premier League season so far, while Man United, which also has three matches to go, can only reach a maximum of 79.
Goals from Luke Thomas and Caglar Soyuncu on either side of a Mason Greenwood equaliser helped Brendan Rodgers’ side move third above Chelsea, which has a game in hand, in the standings. Leicester has now inched closer towards snatching a Champions League spot for next season.
Manchester City added a fifth Premier League trophy to its decade of dominance on Tuesday following Manchester United’s loss to Leicester City, which put Man City out of reach of its crosstown rival. Its unassailable lead stands at 10 points with three matches still to play, giving Man City a third title in the last four years.
All three of those have come under Pep Guardiola, who pulls level on league title trophies with Premier League managerial legends Arsène Wenger and José Mourinho.
As a whole, City now has seven English top-flight titles, drawing the club level with Aston Villa for fifth-most all-time.
Manchester City has enjoyed unprecedented success under Guardiola, winning the last four League Cups while also securing the FA Cup in 2019. Last week, City scored its 700th goal of Guardiola’s tenure in just 288 matches.
However, City’s journey to a title took a different approach this season. After seven straight seasons with at least 15 goals from Sergio Agüero, City has only one player in the Premier League’s top-10 goalscorers—central midfielder Ilkay Gündogan is the club’s unlikely leading scorer with 12 league goals.
The squad additions helped City to overcome a horrid start to the season that saw it as low as 13th in the table in late November.
By March, the club had set an English record with 21 consecutive victories in all competitions, including 15 straight Premier League wins to catapult to the top of the table.
