25/26 Match Week 35 Full Recap

Gunners One Step Closer, Hammer's Losing Power & Welcome Back Ipswich Town

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May 05, 2026

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In Today’s CleanSheet:

  • Results 🏟️

    • Current Situation📈📉

    • Quick Kicks ⚽

  • Hot Topic 🔥🔥🔥- Championship

  • Off Island 🏝️ - Champions League

  • World Cup Corner 🌎🍵🏪

  • Best Bets 💰

Results 🏟️

Title Race

  • Arsenal did what they needed to do, win convincingly, adding 3 goals to GD.

  • City drop points and the title is back in Arsenal’s favor and are now 4 points back.

  • Here are the remaining schedules:

    • Arsenal (3 matches): at West Ham, v Burnley, at Palace.

    • City (4 matches): Brentford, Palace, at Bournemouth, v Villa.

Big Result.

  • 3 1H goals, 2 by Viktor Gyokeres, and Gunners can now focus on Champions League.

Salvage Job.

  • City got a 90+7’ rocket from Doku to salvage a point.

  • Everton led 3-1 after 81’ but conceded two late.

  • Everton could use those 2 points they dropped late in the Europe race.

Relegation Race

  • Spurs get their first win of 2026, and move ahead of West Ham.

  • Hammers get drilled at Bee’s and fall into relegation.

  • 3 to play, Spurs have 1 point lead and +10 goal differential.

Best Spurs Performance of Year.

  • Manager DeZerbi may have figured out Spurs puzzle.

  • Villa looked tired. Need to focus on Europa League.

Bee’s Buzzing.

  • 1-0 at HT, 2 more in 2H, all Bee’s.

  • Hammers had chances, no finishing.

  • Igor Thiago with 22 goals on the season, 2 behind Man City’s Haaland.

Europe Race

  • United lock up Champions League for next season.

  • Liverpool and Villa jockeying for 4the and 5th which would get both into CL.

  • Bournemouth, Chelsea, Brentford and BHA all still in running.

  • Sunderland, Everton and Fulham have a lot of work to do to get back into it.

Like ‘em or not, good to have a relevant Man U.

  • Man U dominated the 1H going up 2-0.

  • Liverpool turned that around tying it 2-2 in 2H.

  • United got the last goal at 77’.

11,500 Fans. That is the capacity of Bournemouth’s Vitality Stadium that could host Champions League next season.

  • All Cherrie’s in the 1H leading 2-0 at HT.

  • All Cherries in the 2H.

Chelse SCORED! But, out, another loss.

  • All Forest, who led 2-0 after 15’ and 3-0 right out of HT.

  • Chelsea’s only goal was a brilliant bicycle kick at 90+3’ by Joao Pedro, but the Blue’s have given up.

Geordies get beck in the Win column.

  • All Newcastle in the 1H and the Magpies lead 2-0 at HT.

  • BHA bot one back in the 2H but Newcastle put it away at 90+5’.

Hair Pull.

  • Black Cat’s happy to be out of relegation, they are not ready for Europe.

  • Sunderland scored at 17’ but took a red card at 24’.

  • Wolves found the net early in the 2H but couldn’t take advantage of 10-man Cat’s.

🟥=Red Card Impacted Match

Pride & Table Positioning ($)

Win & Loss.

  • Manager Danial Farke has Leed’s rolling collecting points in the last 6 matches and staying up.

  • 3-0 Leeds before Burnley scored late.

Current Situation 📈📉

  • Most goals for a MW - 37 goals

  • Arsenal - 4-point lead, and +4 goal differential over City. City has 1 extra game to play.

  • Spurs move ahead of West Ham in the relegation battle with 3 to play.

  • Newcastle are MATHEMATICALLY still in contention for a Europe spot AND Relegation.

    • 3-points out of possible Europe.

    • 8-points ahead of relegation.

  • Newcastle, Leeds, Palace and Forest are still mathematically in the relegation race but West Ham’s -19 goal difference means they will most likely lose any tie-breakers. A loss by West Ham keeps these 4 teams up.

    • Spurs remaining schedule (2 point lead): v Leeds, at Chelsea, v Everton.

    • West Ham remaining schedule: v Arsenal, at Newcastle, v Leeds.

    • Forest remaining schedule (6 point lead): v Newcastle, at Man United, v Bournemouth.

Standings

Current Table

(Arrows represent a team that moved up or down 2+ spots or into/out of Europe/Relegation)

  • Purple - Champions League

  • Green - Europa League

  • Yellow - UEFA Conference League

  • Red - Relegation

Season Clean Sheets by Team

Goals & Clean Sheets

How does the current 25/26 season compare to EPL averages for goals and clean sheets.

Goals

37 Match Week 35

27.4 25/26 Season Average (G/MW)

  • Season High 37 (MW35)

  • Season Low 16 (MW22 & MW30)

  • Most since 1992 - 32.8 - 2024/25

  • Fewest since 1992 - 24.5 - 2006/07

Clean Sheets

3 Match Week 35

5.2 25/26 Season Average (G/MW)

  • Season High 10 (MW4)

  • Season Low 1 (MW6)

  • Most since 1992 - 6.44 - 2004/05

  • Fewest since 1992 - 4.13 - 2023/24

Quick Kicks ⚽

  • Michael Carrick has been at Man United for 4 months as interim manager.

    • Has won 10 of 14

    • His 32 points since he started is more than any other club in the PL in the timeframe.

    • Defeated City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and Villa - all top of table.

    • After 2 seasons without, United are back in the Champions League.

    • The BIG QUESTION - will he be retained next season - two options.

      • Retain.

      • Hire Iraola, who is leaving Bournemouth. Might be the best young great manager.

  • 41 Years in the Scottish Premiership.

    • The winner of the Scotland’s top league has been either Celtic or Rangers for 66 straight years.

    • Currently Heart of Midlothian lead the league with 3 matches to play, by 3 points over Celtic and 7 points over Rangers.

    • Down 0-1 to Rangers the Edinburgh club came back at home (Tynecastle Park) 2-1 to take one step closer.

    • The moment Hearts took the lead - great scenes.

    • Hearts take on Motherwell, Falkirk and then Celtic on the final day on May 16. Worth the watch.

Hearts Play in Tynecastle Park

You can see Murrayfield Stadium in the background, home of the Scottish Rugby Team.

  • Inter Miami.

    • Last season Inter Miami won the MLS title

    • This season they opened their new stadium.

    • They have not won in 4 matches at home.

  • Looking ahead at the Premier League Schedule.

    • MW36 - May 9-11

    • MW37 - May 17-19

    • MW38 - May 24 - ALL matches kick at the same time, 10a cst

  • Game in hand.

    • Man City host Palace on Wednesday, May 13.

Hot Topic 🔥🔥🔥

The Championship Results

Promoted

  • Ipswich Town takes down QPR 3-0 and are back up to the EPL.

Promotion Playoff

  • Hull City score at 67’ and hold on 2-1 over Norwich City.

  • Wrexham hit the post in extra time, drew 2-2 with Middlesbrough and fell just short.

  • Derby County led 1-0 early but gave up 2 late goals to fall short.

  • Playoff Schedule

    • Hull City v Millwall - 2 matches, Friday, May 8 and Monday, May 11.

    • Middlesbrough v Southampton - 2 matches, Saturday, May 9 and Tuesday, May 12.

    • FINAL - May 24.

Championship Final Table

Ed Sheeran - Minority Owner of PL side Ipswich Town

Off Island 🏝️

Semi-Finals Across Europe

Champions League

After 1 Match

  • PSG heads to Munich a goal up.

  • Wednesday, 2p cst.

After 1 Match

  • Arsenal host Atletico Madrid, winner moves to the Final.

  • Tuesday, 2p cst.

Europa League

After 1 Match

  • Forest head to Birmingham a goal up, Villa will need to find the net.

  • One of these EPL team will be in the finals.

After 1 Match

  • Strasbourg head to Freiburg a goal up.

  • Both games Thursday 2p cst.

UEFA Conference League

  • Both Semi-final matches 2p cst Thursday

    • Strasbourg (France) v Vallecano (Spain) currently 0-1 aggregate.

    • Crystal Palace (Played in Poland) v Shakhtar (Ukraine) currently 3-1 aggregate.

🌎🍵🏪CS World Cup Corner 🌎🍵🏪

World Cup Countdown 37 Days

Best Bets 💰

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  • MW 32 UP $87

  • MW 33 ($6)

  • MW 34 ($20)

  • MW 35 UP $23

Match Week 35 Results

MW 35 UP $23

  • W ($20) - Leeds to Win v Burnley -235. $47

  • L ($20) - BHA to Win at Newcastle +164. $20

  • L ($20) - Sunderland to Win at Wolves +133. $20

  • W ($20) - Brentford v West Ham over 2.5 goals -154. $31

  • W ($24) - Arsenal to Win by 1.5 goals or more v Fulham +122. $20

  • W ($20) - Bournemouth to Win v Palace -165. $33

  • W ($24) - Liverpool at Man United over 3.5 goals +120. $20

  • L ($20) - Villa to Win v Spurs +111. $20

  • L ($45) - Man City to Win at Everton -228. $45

  • W ($20) - Chelsea v Forest Both Teams To Score -151. $30

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