This score line is somehow funny and surprising to me. While I was hoping that Manchester City will escape the competition in the top five by winning convincingly today against Southampton they rather decided to share points, now Manchester City is still in probability.
Why I said this is funny is that Southampton who is already relegated held Manchester City to a goalless draw. Like, what are they now actually fighting for? This match has shown me that there's no match fixing in EPL, if not, it could be a easy task in the above match.
Since this match ended till now, I have been asking myself why Southampton have not put this kind of performance that earned them a draw with Manchester City today, perhaps they would have escaped their relegation to the English Championship. On the part of Manchester City, I will say that they are gambling with their chances of not qualifying for the hotly contested Champions League spot. It is now certain that either of Tottenham and Manchester United will take one spot so the only available slot is being contested by Manchester City, Chelsea and Newcastle. This is the reason Manchester City never needed this draw.
Well somehow am not surprised because this is exactly what team that have nothing to play for that are in the relegation zone do, because they tend to spoil things for the clubs that are in desperate need and Manchester city know how important this game is to them but somehow they failed to score and Southampton were even close too to score on one or two occasions. The funny thing is that third place is what they need to be sure of champions league football owing to the fact that one slot as you stated will be taken by the winner of the Europa league.
