The English premier league for the 2014/2015 season has
ended.
Chelsea were crowned champions long before the season
ended(3 matches left to play), Queen Park Rangers were
the first team to be relegated followed by Burnley then Hull
City whose 0-0 draw with Manchester United on the last
day of the season couldn’t save them; Newcastled scaled
through with a 2-0 win West Ham.
Final Day results:
Arsenal 4 – 1: Theo Walcott was on fire as he scored a hat-
trick to ensure that Arsenal finished the season on a high.
Wilshere also got on the score sheet for the gunners.
Walcott’s hat-trick was scored with 13 minutes (4th -17th).
McAuley pulled one for the baggies. Walcott can use this
end of season performance to urge Arsene Wenger to lay
his often next season.
Aston Villa 0 -1 Burnley: Relegated Burnley finished the
season on a high as a goal fromin-demand striker, Danny
Ings was enough for the Clarets to finish the season on a
high.
Chelsea 3 – 1 Sunderland: Before the match Didier Drogba
has announced that his second coming to Chelsea will end
after the match. The Ivorian wore the captains armband and
Jose Mourinho after the match said it was John Terry’s idea
for Drogba to start as captain today, and the players idea to
chair him off the pitch.
Diego Costa scored before Loic Remy added two more
goals. Steven Fletcher had initially scored the first goal of
the match.
Crystal Palace 1 – Swansea City: Former Arsenal star,
Mouranne Chamakh scored the only goal of the game as
Crystal Palace continued its good form.
Everton 0 – 1 Tottenham: Everton would be happy to
seethis disappointing season end. The blues finished the
seaon on 11th place a far cry from last seasons 5th place
finish. Young Player of the year, Harry Kane scored in the
14th minute to finish the season on 21 EPL goals.
Hull City 0 – 0 Manchester United: Hull needed to win the
match and hope Newcastkle slip up to remain in the Premier
League but their courageous efforts were futile as they will
play next season in the Championship. Mauronne Fellaini
got a redcard in the 77th minute.
Leicester City 5 – 1 QPR: City have continued her fanstastic
end of season form to condemn QPR with a final day
defeat. QPR had nothing to play for as they were relegated
three matches ago. The Foxes scored through; Vardy,
Albighton, Ulloa, Cambiasso and Kramaric while Charlie
Austin pulled one back for the relegated side.
Machester City 2 – 0 Southampton: West Ham finished the
season badly. Chelsea legend, Frank Lampard got the ball
rolling on his final EPL appearance while Aguero rounded uo
to scoring to finish the season on 26 goals and the top
scorer prize.
Lampard ended his EPL career with another goal
Newcastle 2 – 0 West Ham: The win that confirmed
Newcastle will not suffer the ignominy of being relegated.
Newcastle had Moussa Sissoko and Jonas Guiterrez for not
going sown.
Meanwhile, West Ham manager, Sam Allardyce confirmed
after the match to be leaving the club.
Stoke City 6 – 1 Liverpool: The match everyone is talking
about. Stoke came into the game knowing that they have
achieved their highest ever point tally in an EPL season but
before kick-off no one would have expected a Liverpool
mauling. Liverpool were 5 – 0 down at half-time and had
the departing Steven Gerrard to thank for pulling one back
after the break however, Peter Crouch scored against his
former club to complete a remarkable season for Stoke and
a sub-par one for last year’s runner up.
Statistics
– Man City were the only Premier League team not to draw
a game 0-0 this season.
– Today is the 12th occasion that Frank Lampard and
Steven Gerrard have scored PL goals on the same day.
– Chelsea have topped the table for 274 days this season, a
record in a single Premier League campaign.
– Aston Villa scored only 31 goals this season, their lowest
ever total in a league campaign.
– John Terry is only the second outfield player to play every
min of every game for a team to win the PL (+ G Pallister in
92-93).
– Liverpool have conceded 6+ goals in a league game for
the first time since losing 7-2 to Spurs in 1963.
– Steven Gerrard is Liverpool’s top scorer in the Premier
League this season with nine goals. (all stats from @
optajoe)
Awards:
Eden Hazard of Chelsea won the Professional Footballers
Association (PFA), Football Writers Awards and the Premier
League Player of the Season Awards. His Manager, Jose
Mourinho won the Premier League Manager of the season
Award.
Harry Kane of Totteham won the Young Player of the year
gong.
Sergio Aguero won the Premier League golden boot five
ahead of Harry Kane while Joe Hart won the golden gloves
awards for keeping 14 clean sheets, one ahead of Simon
Mignolet and Lukasz Fabianski.
Sergio Aguero
European Places
Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal and Manchester United
will play in next season’s champions league while Liverpool
will enter the Europa League via the play-offs, and
Tottenham, who will begin their campaign in the third-
qualifying round.

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