Fulham’s request to have their final league game of the season brought forward to aid their preparation for next week’s Europa League final has been rejected by the English Premier League.
The decision means Roy Hodgson’s squad must face Arsenal at the Emirates on Sunday, three days before meeting Atletico Madrid in the European final in Hamburg.
Fulham had wanted the league match played on Saturday but the EPL has insisted that all fixtures in the season’s final round of matches must take place at the same time.
A statement said: “Given it was the final day of the season, when we always play all our matches at the same time for reasons of integrity, and being mindful of the travel plans supporters will have made, the board felt it wasn’t appropriate to move the Arsenal-Fulham match.”
Arsenal need a point from the match to be sure of finishing in third place, which means they will qualify directly for the group stages of next season’s Champions League.
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