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The sorrow and joyful night in football! Manchester City lost the championship and lost all four, Bundesliga finale, Liverpool joins the summer window

4:04am, 18 May 2025Football

In the early morning of May 18, the schedule of the five major leagues continued; that night, Manchester City lost to Crystal Palace in the FA Cup final, becoming the background board for the opponent's first championship in 120 years; the Bundesliga season officially came to an end, Bayern won the championship, and Dortmund later took the lead and entered the Champions League zone. Liverpool quickly finalized the first signing in the summer window after Arnold left.

Manchester City 0:1 Crystal Palace

League lost its defending champion early, was eliminated by Real Madrid in the Champions League play-off, and the FA Cup became Manchester City's only remaining championship title in the season; however, in this final, Marmush lost a key penalty; Haaland Manchester City scored zero goals in eight career finals. Manchester United former player Dean Henderson made 6 saves throughout the game to ensure the goal was not lost; Eze scored his only goal in the game through a counterattack, and Manchester City lost 0:1, winning the second place in the FA Cup for the second consecutive year. This is the first time Guardiola has been in 8 years since the 16-17 season that all four major seasons have been gone.

As Fan Zhiyi's old club, this FA Cup champion is the first championship trophy in the 120 years since Crystal Palace was established; it is also the first championship in the team history; Crystal Palace will also appear in the European competition for the first time next season; they have won the right to participate in the Europa League and Community Shield next season.

Bundesliga ended

Bundesliga ended the entire schedule of the 24-25 season tonight, with a 4-0 victory over Hoffenheim in the last round, with a season score of 82 points; in addition to regaining the Bundesliga championship, Kane defended the Bundesliga Golden Boot; Olisse won the title of assist king and best rookie. Leverkusen and Frankfurt ranked 2 and 3rd; Dortmund, who performed poorly in the first half of the season, caught up in the second half; he scored 19 points in the last seven rounds of the league, and successfully surpassed the loss in this round, and rose to fourth to lock in the Champions League qualification next season.

The runner-up of Stuttgart last season only ranked 9th this season, but they reached the German Cup final and still hope to win the right to participate in the UEFA Cup. Leipzig ranks 7th and misses the Champions League again after 7 years. After successfully relegated last season, Mainz ranked 6th in the league this season and successfully entered the European Union play-offs. Holsteinkiel and Bochum, who ranked last, were relegated, while Heidenheim needed to play a relegation playoff with the third in the Bundesliga second.

Liverpool finalized the first signing in the summer window

Arnold has confirmed that after the season has ended, he bid farewell to Anfield and went to La Liga to join Real Madrid. Liverpool immediately launched an action to finalize the replacement. According to Romano's report, Liverpool and Leverkusen have reached an agreement, and Dutch right-back Flynnon will join Liverpool; this deal has been confirmed here we go! It is reported that Liverpool directly contacted Flynn Pont's 35 million euros termination clause in his contract to sign him, and Liverpool will sign a five-year contract with Flynn Pont.

Flynnon came from Manchester City's youth training, but he never represented Manchester City in the first team. After two seasons of loan to the Celtics, Flynnon joined Leverkusen in early 2021, making 190 appearances for pharmaceutical factories, scoring 30 goals and 44 assists; he is the absolute main force in Leverkusen's Bundesliga championship last season, the FA Cup championship and the 2024 German Super Cup championship. It is worth mentioning that Flynn Pon had the opportunity to join the Liverpool youth team 9 years ago, but because Manchester City is closer to his address, he chose to go to Manchester City; the two sides got together after 9 years.

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