Jamie Carragher names his final Premier League top five to get Champions League qualification | OneFootball

Jamie Carragher has named the five clubs who he thinks will get Champions League football via their Premier League table positions at the end of the season.

The former Liverpool defender making his predictions after the third last round of Premier League matches had been completed.

A weekend full of twists in this race for Champions League positions with now less than two weeks of the season to go.

Of the top seven teams in the Premier League, only two of them won their matches this past weekend.

Premier League results this weekend:

Saturday 10 May

Fulham 1 Everton 3

Ipswich 0 Brentford 1

Southampton 0 Man Coty 0

Wolves o Brighton 2

Bournemouth 0 Villa 1

Sunday 11 May

Newcastle 2 Chelsea 0

Man U 0 West Ham 2

Forest 2 Leicester 2

Spurs 0 Palace 2

Liverpool 2 Arsenal 2

That now leaves the Premier League table looking like this on Monday 12 May 2025:

A great sight for Newcastle United fans, after that significant victory over Chelsea and so many points dropped by others.

Champions League football is very much in United’s own hands and indeed, if Eddie Howe’s side win their last two matches, NUFC are guaranteed to finish second.

Jamie Carragher sees Newcastle United and Manchester City now set to end up top four along with Arsenal and Liverpool.

Jamie Carragher then explaining to Sky Sports who he thinks will then be the fifth qualifier, with Forest, Villa and Chelsea hoping to make it:

“Chelsea will beat Man United [on Friday].

“It is whether they can beat Nottingham Forest away [on the final day of the season].

“There will be a big atmosphere there [at the City Ground on the last day of the season].

‘Maybe even if they can’t get Champions League football, I think Nottingham Forest, last game of the season, the supporters will be desperate to say, almost like a big thank you, for the season that they’ve had.

‘Forest have got European football, great achievement.

“I actually think it will be Chelsea and Nottingham Forest who miss out and Aston Villa get in.”

The remaining ten Premier League matches to decide places second to seventh in the table:

Friday 16 May

Villa v Spurs (7.30pm)

Chelsea v Man U (8.15pm)

Sunday 18 May

West Ham v Forest (2.15pm)

Arsenal v Newcastle (4.30pm)

Tuesday 20 May

Man City v Bournemouth (8pm)

Sunday 25 May

Man U v Villa (4pm)

Newcastle v Everton (4pm)