With that, I\u2019m handing this live blog over to Xaymaca Awoyungbo, who will continue guiding you through all the latest updates.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n In League One, Lincoln City finished the season as champions, with Cardiff City earning the second automatic promotion spot.<\/p>\n Stockport County, Bradford City, Bolton Wanderers and Stevenage made the play-off spots while Exeter City, Port Vale, Rotherham United and Northampton Town suffered relegation.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Championship roundup<\/p>\n Head coach Sergej Jakirovic reflected upon an \u201cunbelievable\u201d achievement after his Hull side earned a spot in the playoffs with a 2-1 comeback win at home to Norwich. Goals in either half from Oli McBurnie saw the Tigers nudge clear of Wrexham and Derby to land a place in the top six.<\/p>\n Jakirovic, who has had to operate all season under a transfer embargo, said: \u201cIt\u2019s a big success. To achieve this is my first season at the club is unbelievable, it\u2019s massive for me and club \u2013 especially in these circumstances. This is a sweet feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n At the other end of the table Sheffield Wednesday claimed their first Championship home win of the season in front of their new owner, David Storch, as they beat West Brom 2-1 to finally wipe out their 18-point deduction. Arise Capital Partners, which is led by Storch, has completed the acquisition of the Owls and the American was on the pitch before kick-off to address the fans of his new club. He confirmed that the Owls would be starting life in League One without a points deduction, much to the delight of the sold-out home crowd.<\/p>\n Southampton made it 19 Championship matches without defeat as they finished the season fourth with a 3-1 win against Preston at Deepdale. Taylor Harwood-Bellis\u2019s superb 12th-minute header opened the scoring and Ross Stewart doubled the lead with a well-taken second after 47 minutes. Lewis Dobbin capitalised on a Daniel Peretz howler to halve the arrears on the hour, but substitute Cyle Larin tapped home to seal the win in stoppage time.<\/p>\n Stephy Mavididi gave League One-bound Leicester something to cheer about at the end of a miserable campaign as his late goal secured a 1-0 win at Blackburn. Afterwards, Gary Rowett made clear he wants to stay on as Leicester\u2019s manager next season, saying: \u201cI think there\u2019s going to be some big decisions and it\u2019s going to need someone, in my opinion, brave enough to make those decisions. The team needs to look very different. The culture needs to look very different. But it\u2019s a great opportunity so of course I\u2019d like that opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n An Ellis Simms hat-trick and a Viktor Torp piledriver ensured Coventry signed off on their Championship title-winning season in style with a one-sided 4-0 victory over a sorry Watford side at Vicarage Road. Cheered on by around 2,000 fans, Frank Lampard\u2019s side ended a memorable season with 95 points and 97 goals. Afterwards, the manager told fans to \u201cstay excited\u201d about the summer plans for squad building: \u201cThe club has to do the hard work and the owner has said that he wants to talk about that from next week. It\u2019s a special story this year and this is right up there in the amount of pleasure I have had in football.\u201d<\/p>\n Adam Idah came off the bench to score twice as Swansea ended their season with a 3-1 win at home to Charlton.<\/p>\n Sheffield United staged a second half comeback to win 2-1 at Pride Park and end Derby Championship playoff hopes. Derby were in control at the break through Sam Szmodics early goal but the visitors came back strongly to dash the home side\u2019s dream of a top-six finish. A mistake by Joe Ward allowed Tom Cannon to level before a strike from Sydie Peck turned the game on its head.<\/p>\n Adrian Segecic\u2019s excellent end-of-season form continued as Portsmouth played out an entertaining 1-1 draw with Birmingham at Fratton Park.<\/p>\n Goals from Delano Burgzorg and substitute Sam Bell saw Roy Hodgson end his short spell as Bristol City interim head coach with a 2-0 victory over Stoke at Ashton Gate. Hodgson said later it could have been his last game as a manager \u2013 but didn\u2019t rule anything out: \u201cIf someone says \u2018we need you to do a job\u2019 and I think I can then maybe, but it\u2019s a long shot. I am certainly not going to be putting my name out there because there are lots of managers and coaches needing jobs. The game has been very kind to me and I don\u2019t need the work anymore. It\u2019s nice to go out on a win.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n In the Championship, Ipswich Town sealed promotion back to the Premier League with a 3-0 win over QPR at Portman Road. They will join Coventry City in the top division next season.<\/p>\n One of Millwall, Southampton, Middlesbrough and Hull will also earn promotion through the play-offs.<\/p>\n As for the teams relegated, Oxford United, Leicester City and Sheffield Wednesday will drop to League One.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Now, it\u2019s time to talk about the drama that took place across the Championship and EFL yesterday\u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Following Arsenal\u2019s semi-final defeat, head coach Ren\u00e9e Slegers admitted: \u201cLyon raised their levels today. They came out really strong. They had Selma Bacha and Melchie Dumornay back in the side, who are world class players. They were really effective in certain moments. It was a very tight game, small margins, it\u2019s a semi-final in the Champions League. It was tight, very disappointing for us of course. They were the better team.\u201d<\/p>\n Renee Slegers during the match between Lyon and Arsenal. Photograph: Alex Burstow\/Arsenal FC\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Yesterday was one to forget for Arsenal Women, who suffered a Champions League semi-final second-leg defeat to Lyon. The Gunners went into the match leading 2-1 but lost out following a 4-3 loss on aggregate.<\/p>\n Lyon will now face either Barcelona or Bayern Munich in the final later this month.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Question of the day \u2013 which direction do we think this title race will go?<\/p>\n Can Arsenal see it out? Or will they struggle under pressure and allow City to take it?<\/p>\n As a Chelsea supporter pains me to say it, but well done Arsenal. They have shown great character and resilience this last week or so and now must be favourites for the Premiership title. All of the pressure is now back on City.<\/p>\n And finally, Sunderland were held to a 1-1 draw by Wolves at Molineux\u2026<\/p>\n The main talking point was Dan Ballard\u2019s red card for a hair pull on Tolu Arokodare.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Elsewhere, Newcastle managed a 3-1 win against Brighton thanks to goals from Will Osula, Dan Burn and Harvey Barnes to ease the pressure on Eddie Howe.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n How things stand at the bottom of the table\u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n A huge performance is needed from Spurs today. They need to capitalise on that West Ham stumble.<\/p>\n oh West Ham, just one job to do, and even that wasn’t necessarily a must-win as even a draw would put more pressure on Spurs, and you failed; ok Brentford away isn’t easy but from comments there seemed to be a lack of fight and that is unforgivable, only good news is that Villa away is slightly tougher than Brentford away so maybe GD could be improved but really, when it’s in your hands you can’t afford to drop it<\/p>\n looking forward to the United match, can’t see which way it’s likely to go, Liverpool could be in 5th or 3rd later this evening, neither’s a disaster but just being above United would be nice<\/p>\n At the other end of the table, West Ham lost ground in the race for survival following a 3-0 loss to Brentford. The Hammers will find themselves in the relegation zone by the end of the day if Tottenham beat Aston Villa this evening.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n How the top of the Premier League<\/a> table looks following Arsenal\u2019s huge win against Fulham\u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Mikel Arteta said his Arsenal team had played some of their best football of the season in Saturday\u2019s 3-0 home win over Fulham and demanded that they take the positive feelings into the return leg of their Champions League semi-final against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid on Tuesday.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cIt says to us and toward our dressing room that we keep the dream alive. hat what these guys have done, not now, but throughout the season to win that many games is remarkable. Because I think it\u2019s going to help on Tuesday. What we want now is to use that momentum, energy and belief towards Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u201cThis was a critical game. We know the importance of the win and the manner that we\u2019ve done it and the goal difference in the Premier League<\/a> and because this game was going to carry a lot of energy towards the next game, which is one of the biggest in the history of this stadium. We\u2019re going to try to make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked if the first-half performance against Fulham was Arsenal\u2019s best of the season, Arteta responded: \u201cIt certainly was one of the best. We talked about hunger, about having the ability to focus and be so determined on what we had to do.\u201d<\/p>\n Mikel Arteta was thrilled with Arsenal\u2019s result against Fulham. Photograph: Catherine Ivill\/AMA\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Arsenal cruised past Fulham yesterday to move six points clear at the top of the Premier League<\/a> table. The Gunners had not won a game by more than a two-goal margin since their 2-0 Champions League win over Bayer Leverkusen on March 17. However, a double from Viktor Gy\u00f6keres and a strike from Bukayo Saka eased any nerves.<\/p>\n Manchester City, who have two games in hand, must now beat Everton away tomorrow to keep pace with their title rivals.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Preamble<\/p>\n Hello, good morning and welcome to another Matchday live! We have three Premier League<\/a> fixtures to look forward to this afternoon, including a huge meeting between rivals Manchester United and Liverpool and a must-win match for Tottenham against Aston Villa. Bournemouth also play host to Crystal Palace at the Vitality Stadium.<\/p>\n We also have plenty to recap from yesterday as the Championship, League One and League Two reached a conclusion.<\/p>\n All that and more will be covered this morning and throughout the day \u2013 so join us!<\/p>\n![\"avatar\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/100683583.gif\")
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