Pitch to Post Preview – The Premier League final day race for European football assessed
The Sky Sports Football Podcast
Sky Sports
4 • 718 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
From the three-way battle for two top-four places and Champions League football between Chelsea, Liverpool and Leicester, to West Ham, Tottenham and Everton vying for a Europa League place, and Arsenal’s chances of a Europa Conference League appearance, Sky Sports’ Nick Wright and Oli Yew join Peter Smith to assess the various permutations - and make their predictions!
The panel also reflect on another Premier League title win for Pep Guardiola's Manchester City as they prepare to lift the trophy in front of their own fans on Sunday.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sky Sports Football Podcast brought to you by Bet365, where every now biting nil-nil, every bizarre VAR, every foregone conclusion, bad pass, slam dunk, tap-in, full-start, dead heat, and absolutely expected defeat is amazing. |
| 0:17.3 | From football to tennis and ice hockey to motorsport. Whatever the moment, it's |
| 0:22.5 | never ordinary at Bet 365. |
| 0:25.6 | Pitch to Post podcast, The Preview. |
| 0:43.3 | Hello and welcome to the final pitch to post preview podcast of this Premier League season. I'm Peter Smith and there's still plenty left to be decided in the top flight on the final day on Sunday. |
| 0:50.3 | The race for the Champions League places is on with Chelsea, Liverpool and Leicester all |
| 0:55.0 | pying for a spot in that competition next season. |
| 0:58.0 | And who will grab the two Europa League places? |
| 1:01.0 | Plus the Europa Conference League, a brand new competition next season, |
| 1:05.0 | we'll be looking at who could be playing in that competition next season. |
| 1:09.0 | Now to help me discuss those European spots, I'm pleased to say. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm joined by Sky Sports Features writer, Nick Wright. How you doing, Nick? |
| 1:15.0 | Very well, thanks, Pete. How you doing? Very good. Thanks. And we've also got Sky Sports |
| 1:18.8 | Football writer, Ollie, you on the line. How you doing, Ollie? |
| 1:21.3 | Good, thank you. Hi, Pete. Good, good, good. Thanks for coming on to the show guys. Let's start with the top four race then because after the |
| 1:28.8 | midweek results we know that if Chelsea winner Aston Villa, if Liverpool beat Crystal Palace at home, |
| 1:35.7 | then they'll both be in the Champions League next season and Lester who've been in the Champions |
| 1:39.5 | League spots, the top four for 36 of the 38 weeks of this season will miss out and be in the Europa League. |
| 1:46.7 | Now Nick, of course, last weekend they were celebrating their first ever FA Cup success. |
| 1:51.9 | This weekend, they could find that they've been confirmed once again that they've slipped out of the Champions League spots. |
| 1:57.7 | How agonising must that be for Brendan Rogers, the Leicester players and of course, |
| 2:02.3 | their fans? Yeah, it would be a definite blow, wouldn't it? I mean, certainly financially, |
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