La Liga Spain is back this weekend after a long and exciting midweek game. Real Madrid and Sevilla are the only two La Liga teams to feature in Europe, but both are well positioned to advance to the semi-finals after Los Blancos beat Chelsea, while Sevilla were held to a draw with Manchester United. in the Europa League.
Villarreal started the weekend against Real Valladolid at the Estadio de la Ceramica. Unfortunately, the home team was led in the first half after Selim Amallah's first goal. Samuel Chukwueze equalized but the goal was denied by VAR before the visitors doubled the lead. Villarreal regained a goal but not enough to get them a point.
Sports club Bilbao defeated bitter rivals Real Sociedad with a score of 2-0. Inaki Williams was the star of the game as the home team put their swords to Sociedad's chest. Meanwhile, Real Betis won 3 comfortable and important points against Espanyol to bolster their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League.
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The Premier League's lower-tier battle is destined to be a match of the ages, with an 11-point gap between Southampton and 13th-placed Wolves.
Arsenal and Manchester City are in a two-horse race to see who can claim domestic glory at the end of the season. Pep Guardiola and former man Mikel Arteta will fight until the last minute, with their much-anticipated competition at the end of April making up a big part of their hopes.
The other end will offer as much excitement if not more as several teams try their best to stay in the Premier League. Within days, the entire trajectory of the relegation could be reversed and the close proximity between the teams would set up the closing games of this term to provide fans with a golden hour view. FiveThirtyEight uses the Soccer Power Index (SPI) predictions and odds to predict every match throughout the Premier League season. Here's how they see this exciting end to the ongoing campaign.
Predict the final standings of the Premier League 2022/23
From 15/04/2023
The supercomputer expects both title contenders to accumulate 88 points by the end of the season, but the battle will be in favor of the Manchester team based on superior goal difference.
A close competition for third and fourth places will play out between United's two teams, Manchester and Newcastle, as the duo lead the Brighton top flight to secure the top four. Liverpool are set to soon enter European football in sixth place, although currently six points behind; however, they have two matches against sixth place Aston Villa. Cristian Stellini's interim management was clearly not enough with the supercomputer predicting Tottenham would drop two places in the table for the remaining seven games, picking up just nine points from those games.
If Brentford finish in 9th place as predicted, Thomas Frank's army will achieve the best result in the English Premier League since their return.
There were no table changes for Fulham, Chelsea, Crystal Palace and Wolves as they claimed their respective places in the English Premier League, ranked 10th to 13th, just ahead of a surprise relegation team.
In a surprising 14th place are the south coast side Bournemouth, who many believe will succumb to the pressures of the Premier League. Despite their turbulent seasons, the supercomputer relies on Gary O'Neil's power to keep them alive. West Ham and Leeds also survived and according to the supercomputer will win 10 and 8 points respectively. One last attempt to stay in the Premier League would be enough for both teams. That said, anything can happen and their future is uncertain as we enter the Premier League crisis.
Newly appointed Dean Smith can lead Leicester out of relegation in the Championship as they are just one point behind the relegation zone, well ahead of Everton, Forest and Southampton. Predicting Everton's relegation from the supercomputer will surprise some people as it is the first time they have left the Premier League since its inception in 1992. Southampton is the bottom team in both the current rankings and the predicted index calculated by the supercomputer. A change of guardianship looks set to send the Saints into relegation as they prepare to end the campaign with a meager 29 points.
This article originally appeared on www.90min.com when the Supercomputer predicted which teams would be relegated from the Premier League.
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