Manchester City win Premier League for third successive season after Arsenal lose

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Manchester City person been crowned Premier League champions for the 3rd successive play aft rubric rivals Arsenal mislaid astatine Nottingham Forest.

The Gunners, apical for the bulk of the campaign, are 4 points down City with lone 1 crippled near to play aft being beaten 1-0 connected Saturday.

Pep Guardiola's broadside person won the rubric successful 5 of the past six campaigns.

They besides person a accidental to assertion the Treble, with the FA Cup and Champions League finals to travel adjacent month.

Only Manchester United, successful 1998-99, person antecedently achieved that feat - and it is their derby rivals whom City volition conscionable astatine Wembley connected 3 June, earlier facing Inter Milan a week aboriginal successful Istanbul, wherever they volition question their archetypal Champions League triumph.

City, champions for a ninth clip successful the club's history, had trailed Arsenal by 8 points connected 7 April, though they had played 1 crippled less than Mikel Arteta's leaders astatine that point.

It is lone the 4th clip that a squad has been arsenic galore arsenic 8 points wide aft astatine slightest 28 Premier League games and failed to triumph the title.

Only 1 squad has ever had 69 points with 10 games remaining - arsenic Arsenal did - and failed to triumph the title. That was Liverpool successful 2018-19, erstwhile they finished connected 97 points, 1 down City.

But City person won 11 league games successful a enactment - and dropped conscionable 2 points from a imaginable 42 - to overhaul Arsenal and clinch the rubric with 3 games remaining.

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