England is officially guaranteed at least five teams in the Champions League next season after Arsenal beat Real Madrid 3-0 Tuesday evening.
Declan Rice scored two superb free kicks, including the very first in his career, to put the team of Mikel Arteta in while controlling the quarter -final in the Emirates.
Mikel Merino then scored the third goal with 75 minutes on the clock, guaranteeing one night to remember for the Gunners and the Premier League as a whole.
Only one victory in one of the three European competitions would have finished fifth place for England and four other clubs will be in action this week.
Two additional places are allocated to countries according to their ranking of UEFA coefficients. Last season, Borussia Dortmund and Bologna were the lucky recipient after Germany and Italy saw the competition in engage, France and Spain.
However, the English parties have dominated this year and there could be successful success. Liverpool and Arsenal should end in the first four while Nottingham Forest, Chelsea, Newcastle, Manchester City and Aston Villa are also in the running.
Arsenal beat Real Madrid 3-0 to take charge of its equality in the quarter-finals of the Champions League
The victory also guaranteed in England a minimum of five places in the competition next season
Brighton and Bournemouth could also be in the mixture with only 12 points currently separating third place from the 10th before the action of this weekend.
Incredibly, England could have up to seven teams in the Champions League next season, although several permutations are necessary in this scenario.
Aston Villa would need to win this campaign competition, but lacks qualification through the Premier League, while Manchester United or Tottenham, both quarter finalists, should lift the Europa League trophy.
Indeed, the winners of the Europa League and the Champions League are automatically guaranteed a seat at the upper table for the following season.
The previous rules stipulated that any league could only have a maximum of five clubs in the Champions League. However, these regulations have now been rebuilt.
Arsenal boss, Mikel Arteta, congratulated his team’s victory over Real Madrid holders, but insisted that his players “ still have much more to give ‘before the return leg.
“When you have not played against this team in the past 20 years and you have not had a good race in this competition, you must be ready to write your own story, and it’s nights like this you can do this,” said Arteta.
“We did it but we have much more to give.
Development will be a boost in Newcastle, which currently occupies fifth place
The Nottingham forest is also firmly in the Champions League race in a remarkable season
Manchester United would qualify, perhaps the seventh team, if they won the Europa League
Madrid midfielder Jude Bellingham, said the Giants of Laliga had had the chance not to have lost only by three goals, such was the domination of Arsenal.
“We were nowhere, that’s the fact and Arsenal was really good,” Bellingham told Amazon Prime after the match. “Two of the goals are very good free kicks, but to be honest, they could have had much more.
“But there is a second step, we stand, we will need something incredibly special. You never know, but I cannot go out and say that we are going to abandon, it is not in the nature of the club and the mentality that they instill in you.
“They (the free kicks) are two pieces of individual quality. If it was not for them, they still had a certain number of chances and we were punished and it happens.
“We had a chance, but in these games, you have to create more. Very rarely come here and mark one and go. We did not do it enough, arrived at the last third several times, but they reacted well and we did not do it enough with the ball.
“We are still alive, we have another 90 minutes.
