LEICESTER, England -- When the 2019-20 Premier League season is reviewed with a glance at the history books, it will look as though Manchester United made easy work of qualifying for the Champions League. After all, manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer guided his team to third -- the best of the rest after Liverpool and Manchester City -- and they ended the campaign with a four-point cushion between themselves and fifth-placed Leicester in the race for that crucial top-four finish.
They say that the league table never lies, but on this occasion it might have been slightly economical with the truth.