Manchester City’s title hopes extinguished with draw at Bournemouth
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Manchester City's Phil Foden looking dejected after Arsenal are confirmed as the Premier League champions following City's 1-1 draw at Bournemouth on May 19.
PHOTO: REUTERS
- Manchester City's 1-1 draw with Bournemouth ended their Premier League title hopes, making Arsenal champions after 22 years.
- Eli Junior Kroupi scored for Bournemouth; Erling Haaland equalised for City. The draw denied Pep Guardiola a seventh league title.
- Bournemouth's unbeaten run extended to 17 games, securing European qualification for the first time in their history.
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BOURNEMOUTH, England - Manchester City's Premier League title dreams were snuffed out on the south coast on May 19 with a heartbreaking 1-1 draw at Bournemouth that handed Arsenal an unassailable lead at the top, and their first league trophy after a 22-year wait.
Needing victory to keep alive the race ahead of the May 24 season finale, City were undone by Eli Junior Kroupi’s brilliant first-half strike at Vitality Stadium, extinguishing City’s hopes of a seventh league title for Pep Guardiola in what is expected to be his final season after a glittering decade as manager.
The draw left City on 78 points, four behind Arsenal. Bournemouth - unbeaten in 17 league games and sixth on 56 points - secured European qualification for the first time.
Kroupi fired Bournemouth in front in the 39th minute when Adrien Truffert was played through down the left and he picked out the 19-year-old Frenchman, who took a touch before unleashing a brilliant curving shot just inside the far post past Gianluigi Donnarumma, who was rooted to the spot.
City’s Erling Haaland pulled back a goal deep in injury time, when Rodri’s shot bounced off the post and dropped to the Norwegian but the final whistle sounded seconds later to seal City’s fate. REUTERS
