West Ham v Leeds, Champions League battle, Arsenal to lift trophy and Guardiola’s goodbye: Premier League finale – live

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Taty Castellanos celebrates after scoring for West Ham. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images

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5.30pm So West Ham now need Everton to score twice at Spurs. The bad news is that Everton haven’t had a shot on target, have had just five shots in total to Tottenham’s 19, and have generally been underpants.

GOAL! West Ham 1-0 Leeds (Castellanos, 57 mins)

West Ham win a corner on the right, and then another corner. Bowen sends the second one to the far post, where Castellanos is unchallenged as he heads it in!

GOAL! Liverpool 1-1 Brentford (Schade, 64 mins)

Brentford score with a diving header, which is always nice. It’s definitely an attempted shot, though, and it hits a defender and deflects handily towards Schade, who reacts smartly to turn it in!

Red card! Chelsea go down to 10 men!

5.25pm Colwill and Fofana gang up on Isidor and between them they bring him down. The referee could have booked either of them and plumps for Fofana, and it’s his second yellow card!

GOAL! Man City 1-2 Aston Villa!

Ollie Watkins is played in down the right. He’s still got a lot of work to do, but he does it expertly, running into the area, drawing Trafford and tucking the ball through his legs!

Ollie Watkins makes it 2-1 to Villa with a brilliant finish.
Ollie Watkins makes it 2-1 to Villa with a brilliant finish. Photograph: Matt West/Shutterstock

5.20pm A guard of honour from both teams and a standing ovation from both sets of fans as Bernardo Silva is substituted at the Etihad. City have been tiresomely good at times over the last decade, but Bernardo Silva has always been a joy.

GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Brentford (Jones, 58 mins)

A goal for Liverpool, and an assist for Mo Salah! His hard, low ball in with the outside of his left foot leaves Curtis Jones with an easy task, and he makes no mistake!

Curtis Jones scores for Liverpool
Curtis Jones can’t miss. And he doesn’t. Photograph: Peter Powell/Reuters

GOAL! Burnley 1-1 Wolves (Flemming, 47 mins)

Another excellent finish, Flemming sidefooting past Jose Sa with his left foot!

GOAL! Sunderland 2-1 Chelsea (Palmer, 56 mins)

Cole Palmer pings an arrowlike shot towards the near post from 20 yards or so, out of nothing very much. Roefs should save it easily. But then, well, he doesn’t.

GOAL! Nottingham Forest 1-1 Bournemouth (Tavernier, 54 mins)

Excellent finish from Tavernier, who leathers a first-time shot into the far corner from the edge of the area!

Marcus Tavernier equalises for Bournemouth.
Marcus Tavernier equalises for Bournemouth. Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe/Shutterstock

5.15pm And again! Summerville is dispossessed, the ball rolls back to him again, he jinks into the area and has a shot that deflects across goal to Castellanos, beyond the far post but left with surely a very easy finish for a player of Championship quality, but, well, he falls over backwards, and blazes over.

5.13pm And while all those goals were going in West Ham had a wonderful chance, but instead of turning it in the forward fell over backwards, and didn’t.

GOAL! Brighton 0-3 Man Utd (Fernandes, 48 mins)

This goal happened long enough ago that I’ve basically forgotten it. A nice, inch-perfect finish from Fernandes, though. It took a long time to be declared definitively onside, but was eventually cleared.

Bruno Fernandes makes it three for United!
Bruno Fernandes makes it three for United! Photograph: Sean Ryan/Shutterstock

GOAL! Crystal Palace 0-2 Arsenal (Madueke, 48 mins)

Arsenal score from a corner, is it? It’s a long corner, headed back into the area, and very neatly finished by Madueke!

Noni Madueke makes it 2-0 to Arsenal.
Noni Madueke makes it 2-0 to Arsenal. Photograph: Justin Setterfield/Getty Images

GOAL! Sunderland 2-0 Chelsea (Gusto own goal, 50 mins)

Sunderland double their lead! It’s nicely made, at least until Brobbey’s deeply rubbish finish, which was bobbling miserably wide until Malo Gusto did him a favour, stuck out a leg and turned it into his own net!

Malo Gusto scores an own goal.
Malo Gusto scores an own goal. Oops. Photograph: Richard Lee/Shutterstock

GOAL! Man City 1-1 Aston Villa (Watkins, 47 mins)

A bit of penalty area pinball at the Etihad and of all people the ball lands at the feet of Ollie Watkins, and the rest is inevitable.

Ollie Watkins equalises for Aston Villa!
Ollie Watkins equalises for Aston Villa! Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images/Reuters

5.07pm A first chance of the second half and Sunderland should have doubled their lead! Brobbey is played through, takes his time, picks his spot, and that spot is approximately perfectly the middle of the keeper.

5pm Second halves imminent. Wolves are, you may have noticed, not currently bottom of the table – if they can hold out today this will be the first day since 30 August that they end anywhere other than 20th.

Who on earth is going to be this season’s top scorer? Well, Erling Haaland, obviously. And Igor Thiago will finish second. But if you’re interested in the race for the coveted bronze boot (is this a thing?) you’ll need to be checking this out:

4.51pm It’s now half-time in most of the Premier League games, and thus just one half of one game remains to be played this season. The scores:

Brighton 0-2 Man Utd
Burnley 0-1 Wolves
Crystal Palace 0-1 Arsenal
Fulham 1-0 Newcastle
Liverpool 0-0 Brentford
Man City 1-0 Aston Villa
Nottingham Forest 1-0 Bournemouth
Sunderland 1-0 Chelsea
Tottenham 1-0 Everton
West Ham 0-0 Leeds

And the league table as it stands:

4.48pm A bit of chaos inside the Leeds penalty area, but West Ham can’t turn it in. And now Pablo hits the side netting from a tight angle!

GOAL! Crystal Palace 0-1 Arsenal (Jesus, 42 mins)

Gabriel Jesus finally takes a chance! After missing a couple of really easy opportunities when he had all sorts of time and space he’s finally forced to take an instinctive first-time shot, and it’s a good one!

Gabriel Jesus fires the champions in front.
Gabriel Jesus fires the champions in front. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

GOAL! Brighton 0-2 Manchester United (Mbeumo, 44 mins)

Nice goal, this. Diallo plays a one-two, gets to the byline and spears the ball across goal, where Mbeumo is lurking and turns in!

Bryan Mbeumo makes it 2-0 to United.
Bryan Mbeumo makes it 2-0 to United. Photograph: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images

GOAL! Tottenham 1-0 Everton (Joao Palhinha, 43 mins)

Joao Palhinha! Chaos and madness! A corner from the left and Palhinha heads into the far post, but the ball rebounds back to him and he turns it goalwards. It’s cleared off the line, but the wrong side of it!

Joao Palhinha scores foe Spurs!
Joao Palhinha scores foe Spurs! Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

4.40pm As it stands: Sunderland (who are beating Chelsea) are seventh and in the Europa League, Brighton (losing to Manchester United) dropping to eighth and the Conference League, and Brentford ( drawing with Liverpool) and Chelsea in ninth and 10th.

4.37pm Another great chance for Leeds, but after being beautifully teed up by Nmecha Calvert-Lewin hits Hermansen, who to be fair came out quickly.

GOAL! Brighton 0-1 Manchester United (Dorgu, 33 mins)

A corner on the right is headed in by Patrick Dorgu, and that’s yet another assist for Bruno Fernandes, his 21st of the season!

It’s a record-breaking 21st assist of the season for Bruno Fernandes.
It’s a record-breaking 21st assist of the season for Bruno Fernandes. Photograph: David Klein/Reuters
Patrick Dorgu heads United in front on the south coast.
Patrick Dorgu heads United in front on the south coast. Photograph: John Sibley/Action Images/Reuters

GOAL! Nottingham Forest 1-0 Bournemouth (Gibbs-White, 34 mins)

A free-kick that hits net rather than post! The ball is backheeled into the path of Gibbs-White, whose low shot screams into the net!

Morgan Gibbs-White scores for Forest!
Morgan Gibbs-White scores for Forest! Photograph: Craig Brough/Action Images/Reuters

4.33pm Curtis Jones goes down over a challenge in the penalty area, and the only thing that stops the penalty being awarded to Liverpool is that Jones was already on his way down when the first contact happened.

GOAL! Sunderland 1-0 Chelsea (Hume, 25 mins)

A long ball, a flick on, and a first-time shot from Trai Hume, just inside the area, beats the keeper at the near post! Very nicely taken, that.

Trai Hume scores a brilliant opener for Sunderland.
Trai Hume scores a brilliant opener for Sunderland. Photograph: George Wood/Getty Images

GOAL! Manchester City 1-0 Aston Villa (Semenyo, 23 mins)

A corner from the left bounces through to Semenyo at the far post, and he pops it neatly back across the keeper and in!

Antoine Semenyo scores for Man City.
Antoine Semenyo scores for Man City. Photograph: Matt West/Shutterstock

4.23pm Everton should be down to 10 men at Spurs, thanks to Rohl’s terrible (in slow motion, at least) challenge on Van de Ven. But somehow Everton get the free-kick and VAR doesn’t intervene.

4.22pm A brilliant chance for Liverpool, but Szoboszlai slides the ball across goal and wide.

GOAL! Fulham 1-0 Newcastle (Diop, 20 mins)

4.20pm Another free-kick hits the woodwork with the keeper beaten! This time it’s from Fulham’s Kevin, who forces Pope into a full-length dive in an effort to keep the ball out, but then it hits the woodwork and rebounds to Diop, who heads into a completely empty net.

Issa Diop put Fulham ahead against Newcastle.
Issa Diop put Fulham ahead against Newcastle. Photograph: Alex Davidson/Getty Images

4.20pm Mo Salah hits the post! It’s a free kick, just outside the penalty area, and Salah curls it towards the near post and, with the keeper beaten, it bounces clear!

Mohamed Salah pings a free-kick off the post for Liverpool.
Mohamed Salah pings a free-kick off the post for Liverpool. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

4.17pm Now a chance for West Ham! The ball bounces to Pablo, 15 yards out, and it may well have been goalbound – the player’s reaction suggests it probably was – before it hit Struijk. After it hit Struijk, though, it wasn’t.

4.15pm Chance for Spurs! The ball bounces through to Joao Palhinha, beyond the far post, but he blasts a volley over the bar!

4.13pm Another incredible chance for Arsenal, who play Jesus through on goal, one on one, and there’s a teammate to his left for him to square it to if he wants to absolutely guarantee a goal. Instead, though, he delays his shot and Henderson saves.

Dean Henderson saves well from Gabby Jesus at Selhurst Park.
Dean Henderson saves well from Gabby Jesus at Selhurst Park. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

4.10pm Massive chance for Leeds! Justin’s mishit shot comes quickly to Nmecha, just outside the six-yard box, and really he only has to divert it on target to give the visitors the lead at West Ham! But, well, he can’t, not even nearly.

GOAL! Burnley 0-1 Wolves (Armstrong penalty, 5 mins)

Ye olde VAR handball penalty decision, is it? The defender’s arm was in an unnatural position, but the ball was headed into it from no distance at all, and it continues to be a bit rum that such a thing is rewarded with an uncontested shot on goal from 12 yards. Anyway, Adam Armstrong converts.

Adam Armstrong puts Wolves in front for m the spot.
Adam Armstrong puts Wolves in front for m the spot. Photograph: Brett Patzke/WWFC/Wolves/Getty Images

4.07pm: And Arsenal hit the post! Jesus really should have scored that, but he very coolly and deliberately sidefooted into the woodwork.

4.07pm: History! This from AP on a big day for Max Dowman:

Arsenal winger Max Dowman became the youngest player to start a Premier League match Sunday when, at 16 years and 144 days, he played for the newly crowned champions against Crystal Palace on the final day of the season.

In March, Dowman became the league’s youngest-ever scorer with a remarkable stoppage-time goal in Arsenal’s 2-0 win over Everton after coming off the bench.

Also this season, he became the youngest player in Champions League history — at 15 years, 308 days — after entering as a second-half substitute against Slavia Prague in November.

Dowman is still in school . To abide by Premier League regulations for players under 18, Dowman has to change into his Arsenal uniform for training sessions and matches in a separate locker room than his senior teammates.

Arsenal will lift the Premier League trophy after the game against Palace.

4.05pm: No early breakthroughs. Leeds have started their game at West Ham on the front foot, but no shots as of yet.

Kick-off!

4pm: Peeeeeeep! It is time.

While I gamely attempt to keep abreast of the full 10 matches this afternoon, Scott Murray is luxuriating in a full focus on Tottenham v Everton. Here’s his liveblog:

“I’ve been giddily happy since Tuesday night,” writes Arsenal fan Kari Tulinius. “But this morning I woke up feeling melancholy. I didn’t support an English team growing up, but after moving back home to Iceland in 2010 after spending most of a decade in the US, my friend Ásgeir suggested I come with him every weekend to watch the Premier League. He was an Arsenal fan since childhood, and slowly but surely he converted me. This is the first league title they’ve won since then, but my friend, who I talked or messaged with during and after nearly every Arsenal game, passed away last year. So I’m sitting down now to watch with a Czech beer, his favourite tipple, to which he converted me too, and I’ll be thinking of the messages I would’ve been sending him. What a glorious day, nonetheless.”

Beautiful message, Kari. A long time has passed since Arsenal’s last win, long enough I think for many Gunners fans to be negotiating similar emotions today. All the best to you all.

Arsenal fans at Selhurst Park stadium before the match
Tee he he. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Nuno Espirito Santos talks through West Ham’s approach to their game against Leeds:

double quotation markIt’s our last chance. We’re good and we’re ready to go. Let’s see what happens. The same approach that we’ve been trying: starting the game well, trying to score first. Let’s wait and see. The belief is there. It’s not going to be easy. Leeds are a good team. We want to score as soon as possible, but we need to be ready for every scenario. We prepared the team to try to win the game, it can be the first or the last minute. It’s up to us to deliver.

Here’s a report on Bolton’s League One play-off final victory over Stockport. I thought the late VAR red card and penalty was complete rubbish, but the game was won by then.

With Sam Dalby’s second-half overhead kick, Bolton could start to plan their return to the Championship, a division they left in 2019 as a club in turmoil. After administration, last-minute sales, emergency loans, points deductions and a spell in League Two, they have found their way back.

Stockport, themselves a club on the rise following financial trouble that took them down to the sixth tier, were game opponents in Bolton’s second League One playoff final in three years but were overpowered at Wembley. With the score level at 1-1 after an hour, Steven Schumacher sent on Sam Dalby and by the 81st minute the substitute had stretched Bolton’s lead to 3-1 with a picture-book goal. Rúben Rodrigues’s late penalty against 10 men added gloss to the scoreline.

Much more here:

Guardiola: 'The future will be better without me'

Pep Guardiola has a chat with Sky:

double quotation markI’m good. Trying to focus on the game. It’s not easy, with many things happening around it. Not just me, Bernardo and John and some people from the staff. But yeah, try to enjoy, with my family, and an amount of people that I love.

There’s a football game, and we don’t want to make a bad last game. I’d have loved to have the chance today to play against Arsenal, but there are a lot of things around.

And on whether this is absolutely, definitely, the time to leave:

double quotation markNow is the time, I’m pretty sure. Once we announced I thought, maybe I was wrong. The past has been really good with us, but the future will be better without me. You have to have a special energy..

“We can be niggly, we can be horrible, we can play different types of football, and we’ll have to show all of those attributes today,” says Brentford’s Keith Andrews of his side’s challenge at Anfield.

Could this sign hold the answer to the mystery of Mikel Arteta’s disappearing grey kecks?

An Arsenal fan holding a sign featuring manager Mikel Arteta
An Arsenal fan holding a sign featuring manager Mikel Arteta ahead of the Premier League match against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park. Photograph: John Walton/PA

“You never know when we’ll have a chance like we have today, to fight for a Champions League spot,” says Bournemouth’s Andoni Iraola. “We should be aware of all the things that are happening on other pitches but we cannot lose focus. It won’t be easy, playing Forest away, last game. We have to play very well if we want the right result.”

Interesting Spurs line-up, that, with Pedro Porro predicted to start on the right wing with England’s Djed Spence at right-back, and the absolutely-dreadful-every-time-I’ve-seen-him Randal Kolo Muani taking his rightful place on the bench. They can only be stronger as a result.

An email! Um, about Mikel Arteta’s trousers! “On what we all knew would be the Arsenal manager’s red-letter day, Arteta has surprised us all by changing his trousers and making it instead a black-trouser day,” writes Justin Kavanagh. “Two observations: The grey ones were certainly overdue a wash and probably a stitch or two after another stressful season. And wouldn’t it be nice if he’d just sit down for this game and let his players enjoy themselves playing football?” This is the level of attention to (irrelevant) detail I’m looking for, well played.

Fans cheer Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta
Fans cheer as Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta arrives ahead of the Premier League match against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park. Photograph: John Walton/PA

“We’ve analysed them and wingers are crucial for getting a result against them,” says Arne Slot of Brentford, explaining his decision to start Mo Salah in the Egyptian’s final game for Liverpool.

All the teams (eventually)

The teams have all been named and filed, and I’m sticking them in here. You may need to refresh to see the later additions.

Brighton v Manchester United

Brighton: Verbruggen, Milner, Van Hecke, Dunk, De Cuyper, Gross, Wiefer, Kadioglu, Hinshelwood, Gomez, Welbeck. Subs: Steele, March, Rutter, Minteh, Baleba, Kostoulas, Boscagli, O’Reilly Veltman.
Manchester United: Lammens, Mazraoui, Maguire, Martinez, Shaw, Mount, Mainoo, Amad, Bruno Fernandes, Dorgu, Mbeumo. Subs: Bayindir, Cunha, Zirkzee, Malacia, Yoro, Ugarte, Heaven, Fletcher, Lacey.
Referee: Sam Barrott. Assistants: Simon Bennett, Blake Antrobus. Fourth official: Ruebyn Ricardo. VAR: Stuart Attwell. Assistant VAR: Steve Meredith.

Burnley v Wolves

Burnley: Weiss, Walker, Tuanzebe, Ugochukwu, Anthony, Humphreys, Florentino, Tchaouna, Flemming, Pires, Mejbri. Subs: Dubravka, Bruun Larsen, Edwards, Roberts, Ekdal, Ward-Prowse, Amdouni, Laurent, Barnes.
Wolves: Sa, Mosquera, Santiago Bueno, Krejci, Wolfe, Rodrigo Gomes, Andre, Angel Gomes, Mane, Hwang, Armstrong. Subs: Bentley, Lima, Tchatchoua, Toti, Hugo Bueno, Sutherland, Abbey, Edozie, Arokodare.
Referee: Andrew Kitchen. Assistants: Wade Smith, Andrew Dallison. Fourth official: Adam Herczeg. VAR: Constantine Hatzidakis. Assistant VAR: Neil Davies.

Crystal Palace v Arsenal

Crystal Palace: Henderson, Munoz, Clyne, Lerma, Riad, Cardines, Hughes, Kamada, Devenny, Sarr, Strand Larsen. Subs: Benitez, Lacroix, Mitchell, Pino, Johnson, Mateta, Wharton, Canvot, Guessand.
Arsenal: Arrizabalaga, Zubimendi, Mosquera, Hinapie, Calafiori, Norgaard, Lewis-Skelly, Dowman, Madueke, Martinelli, Jesus. Subs: Setford, Gyokeres, Gabriel, Saka, Odegaard, Eze, Merino, Havertz, Rice.
Referee: Farai Hallam. Assistants: Marc Perry, Mat Wilkes. Fourth official: Tom Nield. VAR: Nick Hopton. Assistant VAR: Craig Taylor.

Fulham v Newcastle

Fulham: Leno, Castagne, Diop, Bassey, Robinson, Berge, Iwobi, Bobb, Smith Rowe, Kevin, Muniz. Subs: Lecomte, Tete, Cuenca, Sessegnon, Reed, Cairney, King, Wilson, Jimenez.
Newcastle: Pope, Hall, Thiaw, Botman, Burn, Guimaraes, Tonali, Murphy, Woltemade, Ramsey, Osula. Subs: Ramsdale, Trippier, Wissa, Gordon, Barnes, Elanga, Willock, A.Murphy, Neave.
Referee: Rob Jones. Assistants: Nick Greenhalgh, Sian Massey-Ellis. Fourth official: Sam Allison. VAR: James Bell. Assistant VAR: Peter Wright.

Liverpool v Brentford

Liverpool: Alisson; Jones, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson; Gravenberch, Mac Allister; Salah, Szoboszlai, Ngumoha; Gakpo. Subs: Mamardashvili, Gomez, Endo, Kerkez, Wirtz, Isak, Chiesa, Frimpong, Nyoni.
Brentford: Kelleher; Kayode, Van den Berg, Collins, Lewis-Potter; Janelt, Henderson, Jensen; Ouattara, Thiago, Schade. Subs: Valdimarsson, Hickey, Pinnock, Dasilva, Nelson, Ajer, Damsgaard, Donovan, Furo.
Referee: Darren England. Assistants: Scott Ledger, Akil Howson. Fourth official: Tom Kirk. VAR: Tony Harrington. Assistant VAR: Adrian Holmes.

Manchester City v Aston Villa

Manchester City: Trafford; Lewis, Stones, Ruben Dias, Ake; Savinho, Reijnders, Gonzalez, Bernardo Silva; Semenyo, Foden. Subs: Ait-Nouri, Bettinelli, Cherki, Doku, Gvardiol, Kovacic, Alleyne, Marmoush, Nunes.
Aston Villa: Bizot; Garcia, Lindelof, Mings, Maatsen; Bailey, Bogarde, Barjkley, Buendia; Douglas Luiz; Watkins. Subs: Burrowes, Cash, Digne, Pau Torres, Hemmings, McGinn, Onana, Tielemens, Wright.
Referee: Andy Madley. Assistants: Richard West, Simon Long. Fourth official: David Webb. VAR: Tim Wood. Assistant VAR: Jarred Gillett.

Nottingham Forest v Bournemouth

Nottingham Forest: Sels, Jair Cunha, Milenkovic, Morato, Williams, Sangare, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Hutchinson. Jesus. Wood. Subs: Ortega; Awoniyi, Ndoye, Dominguez, Yates, McAtee, Netz, Abbott, Sillah.
Bournemouth: Petrovic, Hill, Sensi, Smith, Truffert, Adams, Scott, Tavernier, Kroupi, Rayan, Evanilson. Subs: Mandas, Cook, Toth, Diakite, Brooks, Unal, Kluivert, Adli, Gannon-Doak.
Referee: Craig Pawson. Assistants: Lee Betts, Alistair Nelson. Fourth official: Gavin Ward. VAR: Paul Howard. Assistant VAR: Natalie Aspinall.

Sunderland v Chelsea

Sunderland: Roefs, Geertruida, Mukiele, O’Nien, Mandova, Xhaka, Sadiki, Hume, Le Fee, Angulo, Brobbey. Subs: Ellborg, Alderete, Cirkin, Mayenda, Rigg, Diarra, Traore, Isador, Ta Bi.
Chelsea: Sanchez, Fofana, Colwill, Hato, Gusto, Caicedo, Fernandez, Cucurella, Palmer, Neto, Joao Pedro. Subs: Jorgensen, Acheampong, Chalobah, James, Derry, Essugo, Santos, Garnacho, Delap.
Referee: Chis Kavanagh. Assistants: Dan Cook, Ian Hussin. Fourth official: Lewis Smith. VAR: Matthew Donohue. Assistant VAR: Eddie Smart.

Tottenham v Everton

Tottenham: Kinsky; Spence, Danso, Van de Ven, Udogie; Bentancur, Joao Palhinha; Porro, Gallagher, Tel; Richarlison. Subs: Bergvall, Bissouma, Dragusin, Gray, Kolo Muani, Maddison, Sarr, Solanke, Vicario.
Everton: Pickford; O’Brien, Tarkowski, Keane, Mykolenko; Garner, Iroegbunam; Rohl, Dewsbury-Hall, Ndiaye; Barry. Subs: Alcaraz, Armstrong, Aznou, Coleman, Dibling, George, Beto, McNeil, Travers.
Referee: Michael Oliver (pictured). Assistants: Stuart Burt, James Mainwaring. Fourth official: Bobby Madley. VAR: Paul Tierney. Assistant VAR: Mark Scholes.

West Ham United v Leeds United

West Ham: Hermansen; Walker-Peters, Mavropanos, Disasi, Diouf; Soucek, Mateus Fernandes; Bowen, Pablo, Summervilla; Castellanos. Subs: Areola, Kante, Kilman, Lamadrid, Magassa, Potts, Scarles, Wan-Bissaka, Wilson.
Leeds: Darlow; Bogle, Rodon, Bijol, Struijk, Justin; Ampadu, Nmecha, Tanaka; Calvert-Lewin, Aaronson. Subs: Bornauw, Buonanotte, Byram, Chadwick, Cresswell, Perri, Gnonto, James, Piroe.
Referee: Anthony Taylor. Assistants: Gary Beswick, Adam Nunn. Fourth official: Steve Martin. VAR: John Brooks. Assistant VAR: Dan Robathan.

Today’s top-flight fixtures in full:

Brighton v Manchester United
Burnley v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Crystal Palace v Arsenal
Fulham v Newcastle
Liverpool v Brentford
Manchester City v Aston Villa
Nottingham Forest v Bournemouth
Sunderland v Chelsea
Tottenham v Everton
West Ham United v Leeds United

Hello world!

So, today is the day. No more procrastination, an end to doubt and vacillation. The single remaining relegation spot is by a margin the most significant position to be decided, and the crux of it is this: West Ham will go down if they don’t beat Leeds at home. They will also go down if Tottenham beat Everton at home, or if Spurs draw and West Ham win by fewer than 12 (twelve) goals. (The biggest margin of victory in the history of the Premier League is 9-0; in the history of the entire Football League there have been four victories by a margin big enough to save West Ham should Spurs win today, the most recent 80 years ago).

Meanwhile, though we know that Arsenal will finish first, Manchester City second and Manchester United third, no other position in the entire league is already determined. Liverpool need a point to seal a Champions League place, but if they beat Brentford at home and fourth-placed Aston Villa lose at Manchester City they would go to fourth, Villa drop to fifth and, thanks to Villa’s Europa League victory, a sixth Champions League spot will open up.

Bournemouth need a point at Nottingham Forest to be sure of finishing sixth, but if they lose Brighton would overtake them if they beat Manchester United at home. Chelsea need to beat Sunderland to be sure of European football, and Sunderland need to beat Chelsea if they are to have a chance of qualification themselves. If they draw Brentford would leapfrog Chelsea with a win at Anfield, but the point would still take Chelsea above Brighton if the Seagulls lose by at least two goals. A draw wouldn’t do Sunderland any good at all, and there will be no last-day gifts for them: if the Premier League gets an extra Champions League spot they will not also get an extra place in the Europa League. That whole seventh-to-10th area of the table is essentially a bit complicated.

And at the bottom, Burnley host Wolves in a wooden spoon playoff.

Meanwhile, Arsenal will be presented with their trophy after the final whistle at Selhurst Park, when Oliver Glasner will also wave goodbye to the home fans, while Pep Guardiola will bid farewell to the Etihad after City’s game against Villa and Andoni Iraola will take charge of Bournemouth for the final time. Mo Salah and Andy Robertson will play at Anfield for the final time (for Liverpool, at least).

It’s party time for the visiting Arsenal fans at Selhurst Park this afternoon
It’s party time for the visiting Arsenal fans at Selhurst Park this afternoon Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

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