LIVE: Arsenal vs Burnley – Premier League

The team with the most points at the end of the season wins the title.

However, if clubs finish with the same number of points, the winners are determined by goal difference.

If their goal difference is the same, then it goes to goals scored, then to the team that collected the most points in head-to-head matches, and finally to the team that scored the most away goals in the head-to-head games.

It’s easy for travellers to literally look down on Kansas City in Missouri. In the heart of the United States Midwest, it represents the definition of flyover country for anyone on their way to more famous locales.

That perspective is about to change as this summer in Kansas, the attention of the sporting world lands on the city, along with hundreds of thousands of football fans.

Arrowhead Stadium, the 76,000-capacity home of the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs, will host six World Cup matches, including a possible Argentina-Portugal quarter-final, anticipated as a Lionel Messi-Cristiano Ronaldo showdown.

Kansas City overcame major odds to become one of 11 US venues for the biggest World Cup ever – the 39-day tournament stretches from Mexico City to Vancouver in Canada.

While Kansas City is the 37th most populous city in the US, according to the 2020 census, most of the other host cities are in the top 10 in terms of population.

“That’s a big gap, and most of those in between were bid cities,” Alan Dietrich, chief operating officer of the Major League Soccer (MLS) team Sporting Kansas City, told Al Jazeera in a recent interview.

Who actually gets to go to the World Cup?

With US President Donald Trump’s strict immigration policies, some fans may never make it past the United States border.

Because while teams qualify on merit, passports don’t. Al Jazeera’s Samantha Johnson explains.

Hello, welcome and thanks for joining our live coverage of Arsenal against Burnley in the English Premier League.

A win will move the Gunners five points clear of Manchester City in second place.

City still have two to play, starting with a trip to Bournemouth on Tuesday – which will be live here on Al Jazeera Sport.

I’m Kevin Hand, and I’ll bring you the live build-up and photo coverage of the day, plus the news, analysis and opinion surrounding the game.

Adam Hancock will bring you the team news as it drops before our comprehensive text commentary stream of the match.

Arsenal are two points ahead of City but have a slightly inferior goal difference as the season enters its final week. https://t.co/S1RwbQSIAJ

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