Premier League 2025-26 season review: our predictions v reality

The curtain has now closed on the 2025-26 Premier League season‚ with Arsenal pipping Manchester City to the title‚ Tottenham surviving on the final day and Sunderland staging an impressive late surge to qualify for the Europa League. The 'Team of the Season' debate is often one which dominates discussion at the end of a campaign‚ with fans‚ pundits and ex-players all keen to give the performers they viewed as best their flowers. Sky Sports pundits Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville picked an almost identical best XI on the final Monday Night Football of the season last week‚ with the inclusion of Igor Thiago over Jeremy Doku proving the only difference between them.

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Manchester United's moribund showing at Sunderland told us much of what we already know‚ namely that Michael Carrick's side are far from an elite outfit and that the likes of Liverpool and Chelsea should be feel embarrassed that they trail in their wake. It also underlines how well Bruno Fernandes has done to shine this season to such a degree that he has just been announced as the Football Writers' Association player of the year. It is a thoroughly deserved nomination and one that has provoked much outrage on that part of the internet occupied largely by those who don't know very much about football. My social media feeds were lively on Friday night after I endorsed Fernandes' triumph and revealed that I had voted for him last season too. This was proof - so the accusations continue to go - that I was anti-Liverpool‚ anti-Arsenal‚ anti-Manchester City and indeed on the pay roll of Manchester United.

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CHRIS WHEELER AT THE STADIUM OF LIGHT: United haven't produced many bad performances under Michael Carrick‚ but this was one of them as a team showing five changes from last weekend laboured against a spirited Sunderland side who hit the post through Brian Brobbey and were frustrated by goalkeeper Senne Lammens. In fact‚ United didn't manage a single shot on target until the third minute of injury-time when Matheus Cunha's effort was blocked by Robin Roefs at close-range‚ which is a damning indictment on a team still packed with expensive‚ attacking talent.

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