Viktor Gyokeres and Jamie Vardy ended their seasons on high notes, while South London celebrated the very first big trophy of Crystal Palace. In the meantime, Manchester City and AC Milan are stretching their brains about how so many opportunities could have been wasted in the 2024/25 season, with Ajax going through the toughest disappointment of all. Catch up on another full weekend with our winners and losers!
Winner: Viktor Gyokees
In a particularly exciting seasonal final, Sporting CP in Lisbon defended their Portuguese championship, something they have not done since the mid -20th century. The celebration of the lions comes after a turbulent season in which the team had no fewer than three coaches. The key to their success was their ruthless sniper Viktor Gyokees.
The 26-year-old Swede scored the second in a 2-0 win over Vitoria and brought his totally in the Portuguese League to 39 goals. Nobody in the top competitions of Europe has been able to achieve such an achievement, and Gyokeres still leads the Golden Boot classification. He is followed by Kylian Mbappe and Mohamed Salah, but their performance is not that impressive.
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Gyokeres already has 53 goals and eight assists in 50 games in all the competitions in the season that ends, and he has a Portuguese cup final to play in which Sporting hopes to win the double. If there is something that sporting fans may regret, it is the expected move of the Swede, but their club is ready to earn a fortune from it, you think.
Losers: Ajax
Ajax are the biggest losers, not only from the last weekend, but of the past weeks. After two years of collapse, they had the championship within reach, but in the end they had PSV enjoy their second title in a row, although they chased the Amsterdam team with no less than nine points with five rounds.
Moreover, the coach leaves the club from a huge gap leaves the club; Francesco Farioli has announced that he will leave after only one season. This indicates further unrest in the boardroom, where the Italian does not see an eye to the directors and therefore say goodbye to the legendary club.
Winners: Crystal Palace
A whole generation has gone through the stands in Selhurst Park since Palace last won something, but let's be honest, winning the Second Division in 1994 cannot compare with lifting their first major trophy – the FA Cup. On Saturday, Croydon exploded in London from Veugde after Ebereechi Eze had given the only goal of the match against Manchester City.
And although no more goals were scored, there was a lot of excitement at Wembley, from the missed penalty from Omar Marmoush to Pep Guardiola's anger among the referees. However, the figures showed that Palace was better prepared for this competition and the success is no coincidence.
Losers: Manchester City
As some write history, others play their worst season in years. The charges of Guardiola had the opportunity to end this bitter season with a trophy that would have been at least a small comfort when they look at how bad they were during the campaign.
Palace should not have been an insurmountable obstacle in the FA Cup final, but that proved that. Their rivals already hit the murderous blow in the 16th minute when Ebereechi scored. Palace then defended very well, while City was flagrant ineffective, with Marmoush wasting a penalty shovel in the 36th minute.
Eventually the game ended 1-0 and City will end the season 2024/25 without a trophy.
Winner: Jamie Vardy
It is rare that a player is withdrawn from the last game of the season to say goodbye to the fans in the penultimate game. But in this case it is difficult to think of another decision.
Sunday's game between Leicester and Ipswich was game number 500 of the career of the Great English Forward and fell on the exact birthday of his signing at the Foxes.
After 13 years in Leicester, Vardy also managed to complete it with Doel 200 in the colors of the club to which he has devoted his career.
Admittedly, in many ways Foxes fans will not remember well this season, but Vardy's contribution will be remembered in the coming decades, not least thanks to the 2-0 farewell profit.
Losers: AC Milan
Among the losers we certainly had to record AC Milan, who buried their chance to play in Europe within a few days. Firstly, the Rossoneri lost the Italian cup final of Bologna, who not only robbed them of the trophy, but also took a certain place in a continental cup.
During the weekend they still had the chance to fight for Europe in the Serie A, but they needed a victory against Roma for that. A quick goal was scored by the hosts, but Milan succeeded in equating and staying in the game. The second half, however, was from the team from Rome, who won 3-1, that Milan leaves only in ninth place to go one round before the end of the season.
After five consecutive seasons, the Milanese will not even earn a euro playing on the continent.
AC Milan are ninth in the Afbashscor series