It's Premier League final day - All you need to know

It is one of those final days, when one would wished and pray their team make the last four, or stay in the league or become champions but this season's business ended so quickly before the final day on both ends of the of the table but one spot remain a key battle between two teams on the final day... Who make the top four? Liverpool or Chelsea?

Ten-flight matches will be played on the final round of Premier League fixtures on Sunday with only two major issues left to be resolved..

-Liverpool and Chelsea are hoping to claim the last of the four Champions League qualification spots. Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool currently have an advantage over Chelsea, with a two-point advantage over Antonio Conte's side.

-Swansea or Southampton will fill the final relegation place, with it likely to be the Swans, who are three points and 11 goals worse off than the Saints.

With victory at Southampton, Manchester City will cap their superb title-winning season by becoming the first team in Premier League history to win 100 points.

Burnley are assured of seventh place and Europa League football next season, meaning that the majority of Sunday's games represent a tussle for league positioning and the extra prize money that comes with a higher position.

Each place is worth about an extra £2m to clubs, with champions Manchester City taking away £38.8m and whichever club finishes bottom claiming £1.9m.

Man City’s quest for 100 points

With their win against Brighton on Wednesday night, Pep Guardiola’s side set three new Premier League records: 31 wins in a season, 97 points in a season and 105 goals in a season. But they could reach a magnificent milestone on Sunday by becoming the first ever English top-flight team to reach a century of points. 

Guardiola’s side make the trip to Southampton – who, as we will explore below, are technically still at threat of relegation – in search of that magic number. 

Mo Salah hunts down records

Salah’s stunning season sees him on 31 Premier League goals with one match remaining. This is a joint record for a 38-game season along with Alan Shearer (1995-96), Cristiano Ronaldo (2007-08) and Luis Suarez (2013-14). One goal against Brighton would put him clear in the record books. 

He would need to go some way to secure the European Golden Shoe, though: Lionel Messi is three goals ahead on 34 for the season and has two Liga games remaining with Barcelona. 

Without a goal in his last three matches in all competitions, Salah’s chances of breaking an iconic Liverpool record are also waning. It is 34 years since Ian Rush scored 47 goals in the 1983-84 season and Salah is on 43, from 50 games. He would need to score four goals across the Brighton match and the Champions League final to match it.

Kane’s Golden Boot mission

Harry Kane has won the golden boot for the past two seasons in the Premier League and unless you’ve been living off grid in North Korea for the past couple of months, you’ll know that he has been insatiable in pursuit of a hat-trick. Kane infamously appealed to the Premier League to be given a goal first credited to Christian Eriksen against Stoke, and rushed back to action following an ankle injury in March. 

Kane scored the winner against Newcastle on Wednesday night but, with 28 goals, is still three behind Salah in the top scorers’ list. Tottenham are home to Leicester on the final day and don’t rule it out: Kane scored a hat-trick on the final day last season. If the two men finish level on 31 goals it will be the first time the award has been shared since Carlos Tevez and Dimitar Berbatov both scored 20 goals in 2010-11. 

Europa League almost settled

England has three spots in the Europa League with two given to the winners of the League Cup and the FA Cup. With League Cup winners Manchester City qualifying for the Champions League and FA Cup finalists Chelsea and Manchester United also guaranteeing European football thanks to their league position, that means the two cup places are reallocated to the league. So seventh-placed Burnley have joined sixth-placed Arsenal in being confirmed as participants next season. 

The only question is who joins them. It will be either Liverpool or Chelsea depending on who finishes fifth. And if Liverpool do finish fifth but win the Champions League final, then only Burnley and Arsenal will contest the Europa League next season.

An unlikely twist in the relegation battle?

Huddersfield’s amazing week has made the battle at the bottom of the table considerably less interesting: with 37 points they have now guaranteed another season of Premier League football.

Stoke City and West Brom are already down and Swansea are almost certain to join them. Ahead of their home game against Stoke, Carlos Carvahal’s side are on 33 points, with Southampton above them on 36. In addition, Southampton have a goal difference of -18 compared to Swansea’s -27. 

Swansea’s only hope is that they can stick a few past Stoke and Manchester City absolutely pummel Southampton. If they can win while Southampton lose, and somehow get a swing of nine goals, then they will be staying up. 

Will Huddersfield ruin Wenger’s party by extending their own?

On the face of it, the scene is set for one big royal knees-up in West Yorkshire, with Huddersfield set to toast safety and Arsène Wenger, after 22 years, bowing out of Arsenal. Wenger will be desperate to go out with a bang, particularly after a couple of raw reminders of their shortcomings under him recently, namely their Europa League exit to Atlético Madrid and defeat at Leicester on Wednesday evening. The biggest worry is that Huddersfield might wake up from their survival hangover with a bounce – after celebrating safety into the early hours of Thursday morning at a Fitzrovia nightclub. 

The best bit about their Premier League party was that, after opting to ditch the plane home – instead favouring the team coach so they could presumably continue festivities more easily – they were told that their coach driver was not permitted to clock up the mileage back from Stamford Bridge. David Wagner subsequently gave his players – who travelled back north on the train – two days off, but can they manage one final lasting surprise before the season’s out?

United fans say goodbye to Carrick

For 12 years, Michael Carrick has been the best supporting actor of Old Trafford. He is the only survivor of the last great United team, which won three consecutive titles and a Champions League between 2006 and 2009. Carrick, who replaced Roy Keane by not replacing him at all, had a major impact with his defensive awareness, calmness and particularly the range and positivity of his passing. He had some lows after that - he was twice left to deal with Xavi and Andres Iniesta on his own in a Champions League final, and his mistakes against Bayern Munich in 2010 and Manchester City in 2011 were savagely punished – but recovered to become a senior player either side of Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement. The coaches who appreciated Carrick, like Ferguson and Martin Jol, really appreciated him. On Sunday, United fans will get to pay tribute before he disappears modestly onto the coaching staff. 

  

Sourced from BBC, Eurosport and the Guardian