England: arsenal beaten before its trip to Paris
Arsenal was beaten 2-1 by Bournemouth, four days before the semi-final return of the Champions League at PSG. Second since the end of December without interruption, Arsenal (2nd, 67 pts) sees Manchester City (3rd, 64 pts) return to three points, three days from the end.
True to its principles, Mikel Arteta aligned his typical team on Saturday to maintain the sports dynamics, rather than playing the rotation card.
Thomas Partey, suspended to go against Paris (1-0 defeat), made his return as a defensive midfielder. The presence of the Ghanaian allowed Declan Rice to regain his place as a relayer environment. The 26-year-old Englishman brought the danger very early on strikes (15th, 17th), he almost marked with his head (19th) and he opened the scoring with the cold of a scorer (34th, 1-0).
His captain Martin Odegaard served him in the area, he made a hook to get rid of goalkeeper Kepa and scored despite the return of a defender.
But Bournemouth (8th, 53 pts) did not abdicate, on the contrary, and put the necessary intensity to overthrow the match in the second period, on stopped phases. Antoine Sememeyo, two minutes after he entered, sent a long touch to Dean Huijsen’s head (67th, 1-1), then Evanilson improved a corner by taking up at the second post the ball deflected by a partner (75th, 1-2).
Germany: Bayern grants the draw
Joined at the very end of a completely crazy meeting, Bayern let go of the victory on Saturday on the lawn of Leipzig (3-3), but this point of the draw almost assures him his 34th title of champion of Germany.
Vincent Kompany ‘men have 76 points, nine more than the 67 of Bayer Leverkusen, who is still having to play three times in the Bundesliga this season.
In a pouring rain, Bayern missed out on its first period, completely harmless in attack and punished by Slovenian Benjamin Sesko with a superb Lobé right foot (11th) and by the German Lukas Klostermann (39th), at the reception of a free kick by David Raum.
-Upon returning from the locker room, the Munichois posted a completely different face, in particular thanks to the entrances to the French Kingsley Coman and the German Leon Goretzka.
Under the leadership of the revelation of the season, the Frenchman Michael Olise, the Bavarians have relaunched themselves in the space of 46 seconds. The French international, once again the best player in Bayern on Saturday, first found Eric Dier (62nd) on a corner drawn at the first post, then equalized (63rd).
Leroy Sané thought he had scored the goal of the title in the 83rd minute (3-2), deceiving for the third time the goalkeeper of the RB Leipzig with a powerful strike.
But Yussuf Poulsen came to equalize in the last seconds of additional time, and shower Munich hopes which will still have a little bit to wait to officially celebrate the reconquest of the national title.
Wolfsburg winner (4-0) thanks to dubbed by Serhou Guirassy (his 18th and 19th goals of the season) and Karim Adeyemi, Borussia Dortmund seized fourth place with 51 points (+13), ahead of Friborg (51, -3) before receiving Leverkusen, while Leipzig has a delay point (50).
Italy : Naples Back Lec
Naples carried, thanks to his success in Lecce (1-0), his advance at the top of the Italian championship of three to six points while waiting for the inter Milan match this Saturday (8:45 pm) on behalf of the 35th day.
The Napoli chained a fourth victory in a row, a ninth consecutive match without defeat, thanks to a free kick from Giacomo Raspadori (24).
Three days before the end, Antonio’s team has totaled 77 points, six more than the Inter who receives Verona (15th) in the evening and FC Barcelona Tuesday in the semi-final return of the Champions League (Go: 3-3).
