Premier League Betting Odds: Race For Top-Five Finish To Go All The Way

With just two games remaining, six points separate Arsenal in second place and Nottingham Forest in seventh. 

Football betting sites continue to update their odds on who will secure a top-five finish and qualify for the Champions League. 

With the title and relegation places confirmed, the focus will be on those sides battling it out for a spot in the top five. 

Right now, Aston Villa and Forest have the most work to do, but who will achieve their goal?

Magpies Face Tricky Run-In

Newcastle can make a great season a wonderful one if they can secure Champions League football next season. 

With the League Cup already tucked away in a trophy cabinet that had waited 70 years for success in a major domestic competition, a top-five finish is well within their grasp.

Manager Eddie Howe knows that one more win should be enough to see the Magpies return to Europe's elite club competition for the second time in three seasons.

Newcastle, who are 1/25 to secure a top-five finish, end their league programme with a trip to Arsenal and a home game with Everton. 

Premier League Current Positions:

City Look To End Turbulent Season On A High

Crisis? What crisis? Back in the depths of winter, many called time on City's period of dominance. 

Their hopes of winning an unprecedented fifth Premier League title and a second Champions League in three seasons ended early, but it's not all doom and gloom for the Cityzens.

They can win the FA Cup this Saturday, if they can beat Crystal Palace at Wembley and can still finish runners-up to Liverpool. 

For any other club, that would be a good season, but for City, it falls short of the high standards Pep Guardiola has set themselves in recent years. 

City, who host Bournemouth before ending their season at Fulham, are 1/14 to finish in the top five.

Could Europe Be A Distraction For Chelsea's Hopes?

Chelsea have a Europa Conference League final against Real Betis to prepare for, but they will feel they believe they should be in the Champions League. 

Victory against the Spanish side will guarantee a place in next season's Europa League, but a fifth-placed finish or higher will see them back in Champions League, a competition they won in 2013 and 2021.

A home game with Manchester United, who are focusing on winning the Europa League at Tottenham's expense, won't guarantee a top-five finish, but it will help.

Enzo Maresca's side are 4/7 to secure Champions League football in the manager's first season at Stamford Bridge. 

Villa Still Have An Outside Chance 

Aston Villa may have a lot of work to do to make the top five, but they will fancy their chances of taking six points from their final two games. 

Unai Emery's side host Tottenham, who are sure to rest key players ahead of Wednesday's Europa League final against Manchester United. 

United will be Villa's final opponents, and if Ruben Amorim's side win the Europa League, their minds might not be in the right place for their season finale. 

Villa are 13/10 with betting sites to qualify for the Champions League.

Forest Struggling At The Wrong Time

Nottingham Forest's 2-2 draw at home to already relegated Leicester left everyone at the City Ground frustrated.

Nobody more so than owner Evangelos Marinakis, who let his emotions get the better of him when he went on to the pitch to confront his manager Nuno Espirito Santo. 

Champions League qualification looked good a month ago, but sitting seventh with two games to play, they may have to settle for the Conference League. 

Forest can be backed at 5/1 to get the points they need to finish fifth or higher, but they will need the teams above them to slip up.