Manchester City are champions of England for the second time in a row.
Pep Guardiola's men were up to the task in what would go down as the most keenly challenged premier league run-ins of all time.
City clinched their second successive Premier League title, overcoming 83 seconds of sheer panic at Brighton - after the hosts had taken the lead - to eventually run away 4-1 winners and the very vital three points enough to seal the league trophy. Also creating history by becaming the first team to retain the Premier League title for 10 years. Thanks to two quick response to the host's lead by Kun Aguero and defender Laporte before Mahrez third and Gundogan scoring the fourth at the American Express Community Stadium.
This win takes their total point tally for the season to 98 points one better though with an equally superior goal difference than closest rival Liverpool who's win against Wolverhampton wanderers at Anfield takes their season total to 97 points. City set the Premier League win record last season and they have matched it this time around.
City have won the title by a single point, because they won every single one of their last 14 matches. Only once before has a Premier League team won more than 13 games in a row, and that was City last season when they won 18.
Football fans all over the world can only congratulate the not only lousy but resilient Manchester City.
''Toughest title of my career'' - Pep Guardiola.
After piping their fiercest rival to become the premier league champions for the 2018/19 season, the Spaniard confessed that this gruesome title race had been the toughest he's ever been in. Judging from his success at Barcelona and Bayern Munich in recent years, the Manchester City manager was quick to acknowledge the resilience and competitiveness of Jurgen Klopp's charges as they were pushed all the way by a Liverpool side that finished just one point off the pace, confessing to the fact that he's never worked this hard for his success.
He told Sky Sports : “We have to say congratulations to Liverpool and thank you so much, they pushed us to increase our standards.
“It's incredible, 98 points, to go back-to-back. We made the standard higher last season and Liverpool helped us.
“To win this title we had to win 14 [league games] in a row. We couldn't lose one point.
“It's the toughest title we have won in all my career, by far.”
African Trio shares Epl golden boot award to set record.
Liverpool attacking duo of Mo Salah and Saido Mane as well as Arsenal front man Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang were joint leaders on the goal scorers chart for the just concluded season on 22 goals respectively. Though the Liverpool pair missed out also on the prestigious premier league trophy but would rather get the gold boot which was shared amongst them as consolation with both players eyeing the UEFA Champions League as redemption while the Arsenal man would also be looking forward to winning the Europa League atleast ending the season with a silver ware and the latter hopes of playing in the champions league hanging on Arsenal winning the Europa League.
The prolific trio also made history with this achievement as the first time the golden boot will be shared amongst Africans.
The Gabonese star has enjoyed a productive first full campaign in north London, despite seeing the Gunners miss out on a top-four finish.
Ndidi set Epl tackle record.
The Nigerian and Leicester city midfield enforcer has finished the 2018/19 Epl campaign as the player with the highest number of tackle picking up from where he stopped last season. The combative midfielder was also the highest tackler last season and also the foxes young player of the year last season.
He topped the tacklers chart last season with 138 tackles a figure he had bettered this season with 144 tackles thus becoming the first player in the English top flight league to top the tacklers chart for two consecutive seasons. other high tacklers include second placed Everyone man Gueye (143) and Crystal Palace's full back Aaron Wan-Bissaka (128).
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