Sky Sports have announced their head scratching scheduling for the final day of the Premier League season.
The league title and relegation spots have already been decided and all eyes will be on the juicy race for the Champions League with five sides still vying for a spot in the coveted position.
Manchester City, Newcastle United and Chelsea are all acting as masters of their own fate – but just three points separate Pep Guardiola’s City in third and Nottingham Forest in seventh in an ‘anything can happen’ conclusion to the season.
Sky will be no doubt be including coverage from across the grounds on the closing 90 minutes of each teams league campaign. However, one of their highlighted game distracts from what should be the main focus and has raised questions from clubs in the fighting pack.
With Champions League football still massively hanging in the balance on the final day of the Premier League, Sky Sports have selected Liverpool vs Crystal Palace as one of the two games they will be broadcasting.
Arne Slot’s side won the league weeks ago and have been mentally clocked out with nothing to play for this season, so the decision to show a dead rubber against Palace (who will finish mid-table) purely for a trophy lift is baffling with the stakes so high elsewhere.
Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea will also be broadcast in what is almost a play-off game for a Champions League spot, both sides will need to win to have a realistic chance of playing at the highest level in Europe next season.
We already know a win against Everton keeps us in the top five, and Aston Villa facing Manchester United at Old Trafford is massive for the permutations in the race for Europe – a huge miss by Sky to show neither game.
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Victory against Bournemouth on Tuesday night means that a draw against Fulham will secure Champions League football for Manchester City, whose goal difference is 17 greater than sixth-placed Aston Villa.
Newcastle’s fate is also in our own hands, a win against Everton will be enough to keep us clear of Villa (again on goal difference if nothing else), though a draw will also see us finish in the top five if Chelsea and Nottingham Forest share the points.
Forest need to win and hope that either the Mags or Villa, or both, drop points on the final day to move into the top five.
Brighton head to Spurs in matchweek 38 with a point at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium enough to secure their spot in the Europa Conference League next season – lose and they risk being overtaken by Brentford at the final hurdle.