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Napoli win a second Scudetto in three years

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Napoli clinched their second Serie A title in three seasons after edging Inter Milan thanks to a 2-0 home victory, with goals from resurgent Scott McTominay and Romelu Lukaku sealing the win over Cagliari in a dramatic finale to the season on Friday night. It sealed a fourth Italian championship for Napoli, and a record for coach Antonio Conte, who is the first coach to win Serie A with three clubs after earning titles with Inter Milan and Juventus.

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Tottenham Hotspur win the Europa League, end trophy drought

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Harry Redknapp, Andre Villas-Boas, Tim Sherwood, Mauricio Pochettino, Jose Mourinho, Ryan Mason, Nuno Espirito Santo, and Antonio Conte all had 15 years between them at Tottenham Hotspur to bring a trophy to the club. Each failing to do so, due to one excuse or the other, blaming the team’s failure on their mentality or management of the club by the top owners and directors. Ange Postecoglou came into Tottenham, with less hype than all of these managers, and had the club dreamin in the first half of his first season, guiding them to the top of the league for about 10 games, before a terrible defeat bombarded with injuries and suspensions against Chelsea, and that game turned the whole season around negatively, putting them in 5th after 38 games. 

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Crystal Palace won the FA Cup

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Crystal Palace won the first major trophy in the club’s history with victory against Manchester City in the FA Cup final at Wembley. Eberechi Eze was Palace’s hero when he crowned a superb counter attack by sweeping home Daniel Munoz’s cross, 16 minutes into the game. 

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Barcelona’s incredible UCL run comes to an end

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Inter Milan produced an extraordinary performance over two legs and 210 minutes of football, including a late, late turnaround to beat Barcelona 7-6 on aggregate in a thrilling, all-time classic encounter in the Champions League semifinal. Just like in the first leg in Spain, Inter raced into a 2-0 lead, only to be pegged by Barcelona. After Lautaro Martinez had put Inter ahead following good work from teammate Denzel Dumfries, Hakan Calhanoglu converted a controversial penalty at the end of the first half to leave Barcelona 5-3 behind on aggregate and in massive trouble

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Arsenal knocked out of the UCL by PSG

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Arsenal were knocked out of the Champions League by imperious PSG after a 3-1 aggregate defeat in their semifinal encounter. The Gunners went into the match 1-0 down after being edged out by the French side in London in the first leg of the tie with the lone goal coming from Ousmane Dembele, who has been unstoppable since the start of the year. 

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Cole Palmer silences critics by ending goal drought

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Chelsea star man Cole Palmer ended his goal drought on Sunday against Liverpool, scoring a penalty in the closing moments to make it 3-1 and bury the game. The youngster then issued a response to social media “idiots and trolls” for the criticism he has received over recent months after ending his goal drought against Liverpool. 

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