{"id":11265,"date":"2022-02-25T17:26:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T11:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=196302"},"modified":"2022-02-25T17:27:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T11:57:34","slug":"the-relegation-and-title-chase-in-the-premier-league-is-running-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/the-relegation-and-title-chase-in-the-premier-league-is-running-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"The relegation and title chase in the Premier League is running hot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top-four race this season is quickly emerging to be one of the most thrilling in Premier League history. Six teams compete for two additional Champions League spots; which two will emerge on the top?<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOP 6 TEAMS ON THE POINTS TABLE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) Manchester City \u2013 63 points in 26 matches<br \/>\n2) Liverpool \u2013 60 points in 26 matches<br \/>\n3) Chelsea \u2013 50 points in 25 matches<br \/>\n4) Manchester United \u2013 46 points in 26 matches<br \/>\n5) Arsenal \u2013 45 points in 24 matches<br \/>\n6) West Ham \u2013 42 points in 26 matches<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOTTOM 6 TEAMS ON THE POINTS TABLE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>15) Leeds \u2013 23 points in 25 matches<br \/>\n16) Everton \u2013 22 points in 23 matches<br \/>\n17) Newcastle \u2013 22 points in 24 matches<br \/>\n18) Burnley \u2013 20 points in 23 matches<br \/>\n19) Watford \u2013 18 points in 25 matches<br \/>\n20) Norwich \u2013 17 points in 25 matches<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City\u2019s last week\u2019s loss to Tottenham Hotspur opened the door for Liverpool in the title race, but Spurs\u2019 setback to Burnley on Wednesday tightened the relegation gap dramatically. City\u2019s Premier League championship defence appeared to be a foregone conclusion for much of this season. However, the City has recently dropped points, drawing with Southampton in January and losing at home to Tottenham in February.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool, who have won their last six league games in a row, were able to seize the opportunity. The title race has been blown wide open in an instance. Jurgen Klopp\u2019s club is only three points behind Pep Guardiola\u2019s, which may make the match between the two sides on April 10 at the Etihad Stadium a title decider.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst Norwich, Watford, and Burnley remain in the bottom three, now four teams are hanging anxiously above the relegation zone, including Everton, who are just two points ahead of 18th-placed Burnley, along with Newcastle United.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tight at the \ud83d\udd1d and bottom<\/p>\n<p>Here's how the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PL<\/a> table looks after MW26 \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3053TlpAth\">pic.twitter.com\/3053TlpAth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Premier League (@premierleague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague\/status\/1497119942369591297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drama continues at both the top and bottom of the points table in the Premier League. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":33736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2541,312,2549,219,2604,527,220,249],"class_list":["post-11265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-arsenal-fc","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-fc","tag-liverpool","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-man-city","tag-manchester-city-f-c","tag-manchester-united"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}