With a goal from star Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United won 3-1 in his stadium to Burnley, in the game that this Thursday gave continuity to the twentieth date of the Premier League that comfortably leads Manchester City.
The match took place at Old Trafford Stadium, and United’s goals were scored in the first half by Scotsman Scott McTominay, Ben Mee against his goal and CR7 himself; discounted Aaron Lennon.
With this result, Manchester United reached 31 units, as did West Ham. For its part, Burnley he was left with 11 points and antepenultimate march, in the red zone of the descents.
Likewise, the matches that Arsenal were to play against Wolverhampton, Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds against Aston Villa and Everton against Newclastle were postponed due to the number of positive cases of coronavirus in the teams of several of those teams.
Main positions: Manchester City 50 points; Chelsea 42; Liverpool 41; Arsenal 35; Manchester United and West Ham 31; Tottenham 30.
City leads on two fronts
Besides being the pointer in the First Division of England football, Manchester City is the team with the highest income from the sale of television rights of the Premier League.
As reported by the dpa news agency, the team led by Catalan Pep Guardiola received 168.7 million euros for the sale of the rights of the 2020/21 season of the British competition.
Next was located his classic rival, Manchester United, with 167.6 million; and the podium completed it Liverpool, with 166.3 million.
Further back are located Chelsea (164.9), Leicester (154.2), West Ham and Tottenham (both of them with 152) and Arsenal (149.6 million).
Last Wednesday the income distributed had also been reported for the sale of the TV rights of the Spanish League, of which Barcelona receives 165.6 million euros and Real Madrid, some 163 million.
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