Burnley secured computerized promotion to the Premier League with seven video games to spare after Friday’s 2-1 victory at Middlesbrough ensured Vincent Kompany’s aspect will end within the second-tier Championship’s high two.
Burnley will return to the Premier League after one season, having been relegated on the ultimate day of the 2021-22 marketing campaign, during which it completed third-bottom.
Promotion may be price over 300 million kilos ($372 million) over 5 seasons, if a membership survives its first season within the Premier League – in accordance with final yr’s Deloitte Annual Review of Football Finance.
The three factors helped Burnley safe promotion after third-placed Luton Town drew 0-0 at Millwall earlier within the day. Luton sits 19 factors behind the chief with solely six video games left.
The Lancashire membership, coached by ex-Manchester City defender Kompany, tops the Championship standings with 87 factors after 39 video games.
The high two within the division are promoted to the Premier League whereas the groups that end third to sixth go into the playoffs to combat for the ultimate spot.
A 66th-minute Connor Roberts strike guided Burnley to the win after Ashley Barnes’s first-half objective was cancelled out by a Chuba Akpom penalty.
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“This is a season’s hard work. From the beginning of the season a lot of people wrote us off, no one said we’d be up there,” Roberts instructed Sky Sports.
“We’ve shown them and hopefully going into next season we can maintain good performance levels and who knows what can happen.”
Burnley’s subsequent goal shall be to win the Championship title. They are 11 factors away from second-placed Sheffield United, who’ve 76 factors.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com