- On Sunday, Brighton’s quest for outright safety was denied after Wolves rallied from a goal down for a 2-1 victory that left them 10 points off the first relegation spot held by Fulham. Manchester United secured a Premier League top-four finish and ensured rivals ...
Champions in waiting - Manchester City – missed out on the chance to seal their third Premier League title in four years at the Etihad yesterday as Chelsea completed a come-from-behind rally with an injury time winner from Marcus Alonzo to boost their chances for a Champions League spot next season.
Liverpool kept their fast fading hopes for a top-four finish alive with goals from Thiago and Sadio Mane against Southampton in an open affair at Anfield, Spurs' Champions League aspirations were dealt huge blow in a 3-1 blowout defeat at Leeds United, and goals from Christian Benteke, Eberechi Eze secured Premier League survival for Crystal Palace.
Earlier on Friday, Newcastle moved within one point of Premier League safety with a 4-2 away victory over Champions League–chasing Leicester City.
The Argentine has had many great moments in a Manchester City shirt but his effort was costly in his side's 2-1 loss.
On Sunday, Brighton’s quest for outright safety was denied after Wolves rallied from a goal down for a 2-1 victory that left them 10 points off the first relegation spot held by Fulham. Manchester United secured a Premier League top-four finish and ensured rivals Manchester City must wait to be crowned champions as they came from behind to beat Aston Villa at Villa Park. Everton renewed their fight for a Champions League spot with a hard-fought lone goal victory at West Ham, and West Brom sealed their return to the Championship following a 3-1 defeat at Arsenal that revived the latter’s slim hopes of qualifying for Europe.
EPL Week 35 Scores At A Glance
Friday
Leicester City 2-4 Newcastle
Saturday
Leeds United 3-1 Tottenham
Sheffield United 0-2 Crystal Palace
Manchester City 1-2 Chelsea
Liverpool 2-0 Southampton
Sunday
Wolves 2-1 Brighton
Aston Villa 1-3 Manchester United
West Ham 0-1 Everton
Arsenal 3-1 West Brom
Monday
Fulham 0-2 Burnley
EPL Week 35 Standings At A Glance
Friday
Leicester City 2-4 Newcastle
Newcastle took a giant stride towards Premier League survival after securing a resounding 4-2 win at Leicester, dealing a blow to the hosts' Champions League hopes at the King Power Stadium on Friday Night Football.
Steve Bruce's side moved up to 14th, 12 points clear of 18th-placed Fulham, who still have four games to play, as fears of another end-of-season collapse for the Foxes in their bid to finish in the top four showed signs of materialising.
Joe Willock took full advantage of a Caglar Soyuncu error to continue his rich vein of form (22) before Paul Dummett rose unopposed to double Newcastle's lead (34), with Brendan Rodgers' team visibly unsettled by the late withdrawal of Jonny Evans prior to kick-off through injury.
Callum Wilson pounced on a Timothy Castagne mistake to add to Leicester's woes (64) before making it 4-0 from an acute angle (74) after his initial effort had rebounded off the inside of the post.
Marc Albrighton reduced the deficit with a rifled finish (80), before Kelechi Iheanacho halved the arrears (87) but it would prove scant consolation.
Saturday
Leeds United 3-1 Tottenham
Tottenham's hopes of finishing the season inside the Premier League's top four took a huge blow as they suffered a 3-1 defeat at Leeds United.
They suffered an early setback when Stuart Dallas gave the hosts the lead in the 13th minute.
Tottenham cancelled out Dallas' opener to draw level in the 25th minute through Heung-Min Son, but Leeds regained the lead just before half-time as Patrick Bamford converted Ezgjan Alioski's cut-back from close range.
Spurs, who saw two Harry Kane goals correctly ruled out for offside, had chances in the second half but Illan Meslier kept out efforts from Serge Aurier and Giovani Lo Celso before substitute Rodrigo added Leeds' third to seal all three points.
Spurs are now seven points off the fourth spot. Leeds move above Aston Villa into the top half of the Premier League.
Sheffield United 0-2 Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace rubberstamped Premier League survival and ended a winless run of five games with a 2-0 victory at Sheffield United.
Christian Benteke's deflected shot after just 66 seconds had looked set to be decisive, even though it belied Palace's dominance against a long-beaten side who failed to muster an effort on target.
Benteke had been denied from close-range by a fine first-half Aaron Ramsdale save, before drilling against a post after the break, but a belated second finally came through the impressive Eberechi Eze (88) as the Eagles eased past the 40-point mark and made sure of an eighth successive season in the top flight.
Sheffield United, whose own relegation was followed in the day earlier by that of rivals Sheffield Wednesday from the Championship - the city's first double drop in the same season - never truly threatened to punish Palace's profligacy as they recorded a 28th league defeat of a tortuous season.
Manchester City 1-2 Chelsea
Chelsea tormented Manchester City once again by delaying their title-winning party and boosting their own top-four hopes with the help of an awful Panenka penalty miss by Sergio Aguero during their 2-1 comeback win at the Etihad on Saturday.
Hakim Ziyech, who had ended City's Quadruple dreams in a FA Cup semi-final last month, was on target again to cancel out Raheem Sterling's opener for the much-changed hosts, before Marcos Alonso (90+2) grabbed a deserved stoppage-time winner for the visitors against a side they will meet in the Champions League final on May 29.
A mis-control from Aguero - City's most-famous title-clincher of all - had allowed Sterling to find the net for the first time in 13 games on 44 minutes but another error from the striker moments later proved far more costly, with his weak spot-kick easily saved.
Chelsea capitalised and had the upper hand throughout the second period, with Timo Werner and Callum Hudson-Odoi seeing efforts ruled out for offside after Ziyech's leveller on 63 minutes, and they leapfrogged Leicester into third place in the Premier League with Alonso's last-gasp finish from close range.
Chelsea are now six points clear of fifth-placed West Ham in the top-four race, while City - who were aggrieved not to be awarded a late penalty when Sterling was tumbled by Kurt Zouma - could still reclaim the crown this weekend if Manchester United lose at Aston Villa on Sunday.
Liverpool 2-0 Southampton
Thiago scored his first goal for Liverpool as they kept their top-four hopes alive with a 2-0 win over Southampton at Anfield.
Both sides had clear chances in an open first half, but Liverpool got the opener as Sadio Mane rose above Kyle Walker-Peters to convert Mohamed Salah's cross from six yards (31), the first time the duo had combined for a Premier League goal this season.
Alisson was on hand to deny Saints on several occasions in both halves, while also nearly handing them a leveller on a plate with a poor pass out in the second, gratefully gathering Che Adams' weak shot, before summer signing Thiago struck with a fine low effort from outside the box into the bottom right corner (90).
Victory leaves Liverpool six points off fourth-place Leicester, with a game in hand and four to play, with Chelsea a point further ahead in third.
Sunday
Wolves 2-1 Brighton
Morgan Gibbs-White came up with an injury-time winner for Wolves after Brighton's Lewis Dunk scored and was then sent off in a 2-1 victory for the hosts at Molineux on Sunday.
At half-time the Seagulls had looked on course for a win which would have taken them to 40 points and made them mathematically safe from relegation, thanks to Dunk's towering header on 13 minutes.
However, Brighton were left to play the final 37 minutes with 10 men after Dunk grabbed Fabio Silva's shirt as he ran through on goal, and substitute Adama Traore fired Wolves level (76).
Gibbs-White had passed up a great chance to score his side's second when he blasted over from 16 yards with the goal at his mercy but he made no mistake from a similar position with 90 minutes on the clock, earning Wolves a first-ever win over Brighton in the top flight.
Brighton's situation got even worse at full-time when Neal Maupay was also shown a straight red for arguing with referee Jon Moss but they still have a 10-point cushion on third-bottom Fulham.
If the Cottagers lose to Burnley on Monday Graham Potter's side will be assured of another season in the Premier League - but they will be kicking themselves for not doing it under their own steam at Wolves.
Aston Villa 1-3 Manchester United
Manchester United once again fought back from a goal down to beat Aston Villa 3-1 at Villa Park, meaning Manchester City must wait to be crowned Premier League champions.
City still need three points themselves, or for United to drop three points, as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's team made it 31 points from losing positions, the most of any Premier League side.
Villa took the lead midway through the first half as Bertrand Traore turned and produced a fine effort into the top corner (24), though questions will be asked of Victor Lindelof's defending.
But United, playing the first of three games in five days, fought back in the second half through Bruno Fernandes' penalty after Douglas Luiz had clumsily fouled Paul Pogba (52), before Mason Greenwood found the bottom right corner with a fine turn and finish (56).
Substitute Edinson Cavani wrapped up the points with a classy header (87) while Ollie Watkins saw red for two yellows, the second for simulation.
The result means United are now unbeaten in 25 away games, two shy of Arsenal's record from 2003 to 2004, while Villa are 11th, six points off the top seven but with a game in hand.
West Ham 0-1 Everton
West Ham suffered a major blow to their Champions League hopes as Everton breathed renewed life into their own with a hard-fought 1-0 win at the London Stadium on Super Sunday.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored the crucial goal on 24 minutes as he latched onto Ben Godfrey's through ball to steer his low shot beyond Lukasz Fabianski.
The visitors' goal led a charmed life at times, with Said Benrahma missing a glorious first-half chance before Vladimir Coufal struck the inside of the post after the interval.
Everton stay in eighth place, but move to within three points of their opponents in fifth, with their game in hand against Aston Villa taking place on Thursday evening.
Arsenal 3-1 West Brom
Arsenal sent West Brom down with a 3-1 win at the Emirates Stadium as Sam Allardyce suffered relegation from the Premier League for the first time in his career.
The Gunners, 10th in the Premier League table ahead of kick-off and playing for little more than pride after their Europa League exit on Thursday, took the lead when the excellent Bukayo Saka, playing at left-back, crossed for Emile Smith Rowe to volley home (29).
Arsenal doubled their advantage soon afterwards when Nicolas Pepe cut inside from the right flank and curled a stunning effort beyond the outstretched Sam Johnstone (35), but they had some nervy moments after that.
West Brom pulled a goal back in superb style when Matheus Pereira broke forward from inside his own half and, with Arsenal defenders backing off him, fired a diagonal shot into the corner (67).
The hosts struggled to regain control, despite Mikel Arteta sending on Kieran Tierney, Alexandre Lacazette and Thomas Partey, but Willian eventually made the result safe when he found the top corner with a brilliant free-kick (90) to notch his first Arsenal goal.
Monday
Fulham 0-2 Burnley
Fulham's relegation to the Championship was confirmed by an abject 2-0 defeat to Burnley, who guaranteed another season of Premier League football with a clinical victory at Craven Cottage.
Scott Parker's side needed four wins from their final four games to have any chance of avoiding the drop but were comprehensively beaten as their season-long stay in the top flight ended with three games to spare.
Fulham's fate was effectively sealed before half-time as Ashley Westwood's opener and Chris Wood's emphatic 50th Burnley goal left the hosts needing to score three unanswered goals - the same they had managed in their previous 11 outings.
Fortune favoured Fulham after the interval when goalkeeper Alphonse Areola avoided a straight red card for a clear handball outside the area, but the Cottagers were unable to take advantage of the reprieve, with Andre-Frank Anguissa cannoning the underside of the Burnley bar with the hosts' best effort of sparking a comeback.
Defeat - Fulham's 18th of an arduous campaign - sends them straight back to the Championship at the first attempt, while Burnley climb up to 14th with a victory.
Match reports from BBC and skysports were used in this compilation.
