MANCHESTER CITY EMERGE EPL CHAMPIONS

Reporter : NTIENYONG UDOH

Manchester City have been crowned champions of the 2020/21 English Premier League after closest challengers Manchester United were beaten 2-1 by Leicester City.

Manchester City are now ten points ahead of second placed Manchester United who has three games left to the end of the season.

It is the seventh time City have finished top of the English football pyramid and the fifth in nine years.

Manager Guardiola, has now won eight domestic trophies since arriving in Manchester in 2016.

It is City’s second trophy in a little over two weeks after they beat Tottenham to claim the Carabao Cup and they are also in their first Champions League final after beating Paris St-Germain in midweek.

Since being taken over by the Abu Dhabi Group in September 2008, City have won 12 cups and this is the third time they have clinched a league and EFL Cup double.