Everton, Leicester City And Leeds Premier League Final Day | The Final Fight
0A nine-month Premier League season punctuated by the Qatar World Cup comes to an end on Sunday, with all eyes on the battle to avoid relegation.
Manchester City have already sealed a third consecutive league title, confirmed by Arsenal’s defeat at Nottingham Forest last Saturday.
At the bottom of the table, it promises to be an anxious final day for fans of Everton, Leicester City and Leeds United, with Southampton already down.
Sam Allardyce, the Leeds manager, has moved his squad’s training away from their Thorp Arch base to the Elland Road pitch this week in a last-ditch attempt to inspire the victory needed to have any chance of survival.
Allardyce’s team must end a winless eight-match run against Tottenham Hotspur and would still need Everton and Leicester to drop points.
The former England manager has made his players train on the pitch where they must fight to save their season, rather than at their usual training facilities.
His idea is to prepare them for the big-match occasion against Spurs, when anything other than a win will guarantee they drop into the Championship after three campaigns in the top flight.
Earlier in the week Allardyce invited club legends Eddie Gray and Gary McAllister – both title-winners with Leeds – to address the squad ahead of their do-or-die match.
Allardyce has been sweating on the fitness of his forwards after Patrick Bamford and Rodrigo Moreno suffered injuries, but the latter is given a chance of making the final game of the season.
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