The fierce lead fight… “The impact of the game divided over several days due to the corona”
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jinnam Bae = A new league history was written as Manchester City (Man City) took the lead in the English Professional Football Premier League (EPL), which changes after sleeping.
Man City scored a shower goal in the 2020-2021 EPL West Bromwich Albion (West Brom) away game held at the Hawthorne Stadium in West Bromwich on the 27th (Korean time). He rushed and won 5-0.
With this, Man City has continued to win 11 consecutive wins in the official game including 7 consecutive wins in the regular league, increasing the season’s points to 41 (12 wins, 5 draws, 2 losses), and the match against Manchester United (Man U, 40, 12 wins, 4 draws 3 losses) ) And climbed to the top of the league for the first time this season.
According to the EPL, Man City is the ninth team to take first place as of the end of the match day this season. This is the highest EPL record ever.
Earlier, in the 1998-1999 season, the 2001-2002 season, the 2002-2003 season, and the 2007-2008 season, eight different teams took first place.
However, this season, the championship race is more fierce than any other year, so that the ninth top-ranked team comes out with only half of the season for each team.
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Everton and Leicester City took the lead, starting with Arsenal in September, when the new season started, followed by Liverpool in October, Southampton and Tottenham in November, and Chelsea in December.
In the new year, Manchester United took the lead, and Man City jumped to the top on the same day.
As of the 27th, only 4th place West Ham United and 9th place Aston Villa have not been ranked 1st out of 10th out of 20 EPL teams this season.
It is the 18th time that the number one place has changed this season. Leicester City, third place, with a difference of three points from the leading Man City, climbed to the top four times the most, and then repeatedly pushed back.
As one of the backgrounds for this phenomenon, EPL picks the league schedule.
EPL interpreted that the league schedule, which allowed fans to play games on TV at home, to play games on multiple days, had some effect on the frequent changes of the 1st place team as a restriction on the outbreak of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19). did.
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2021/01/27 09:30 sent