Football writer Ben Bloom analyses the Matchweek 36 action, with significant results in the UEFA Champions League race including Newcastle United's vital win against top-five rivals Chelsea and Nottingham Forest losing ground after drawing with Leicester City.
The battle for the UEFA Champions League places remains compellingly tight after Newcastle beat Chelsea, while Manchester City and Nottingham Forest were unexpectedly held by relegated opposition.
Arsenal look poised to take one of the spots after their comeback draw at champions Liverpool, while Aston Villa continue to finish the season well.
Ahead of their Europa League final showdown, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur both experienced the familiar feeling of yet another league defeat.
Here is all you need to know about the Premier League weekend.
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Everton came from behind to put a major dent in Fulham’s hopes of qualifying for Europe next season, inflicting a fourth defeat in five matches on Marco Silva’s side.
Bidding to stay in the hunt for an eighth-placed finish which could qualify for Europe, the hosts took an early lead through Raul Jimenez, only to then ship three goals.
It was a familiar story, with Fulham’s 28 points dropped from winning positions being the joint-most (alongside Southampton) of any Premier League side this season.
Goals from Vitalii Mykolenko, Michael Keane and Beto then gave Everton only their second victory in 11 league games, as they won a top-flight away match from 1-0 down for the first time in 27 attempts (since October 2022).
Mykolenko and Beto’s strikes were also the first time Everton have scored two goals from outside the box in a single Premier League away encounter since December 2018.
Since David Moyes’ return to Everton in mid-January, only Alexander Isak (10), Mohamed Salah (10) and Jean-Philippe Mateta (9) have scored more Premier League goals than Beto’s seven.
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Another Kevin Schade goal extended Brentford’s winning streak to their longest in the top flight since 1939 - four consecutive matches.
The German struck his fourth goal in three outings, while he has yet to lose any of the 10 Premier League games in which he has scored this campaign.
The assist, from Bryan Mbeumo, was the Cameroonian’s 25th Premier League goal involvement this season (18 goals, seven assists) – the most by a Brentford player in a single campaign in the competition, overtaking Ivan Toney’s 24 in 2022/23.
Brentford's winner v Ipswich
Relegated Ipswich Town continued to push to the end, but could find no way past Mark Flekken, who has faced the most shots on target of any goalkeeper in the Premier League this season, with 192, but conceded only 26.6 per cent of them – the best rate of anyone in 2024/25 (minimum 30 shots on target faced).
Ipswich have now lost their last eight Premier League games at Portman Road, their longest home losing run in any division.
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Their team failed to have a shot on target and never threatened to score, but Southampton’s supporters left St Mary’s Stadium elated after clinching the crucial 12th point that takes them one clear of Derby County’s record Premier League low of 11 from 2007/08.
With an evident defensive outlook, the hosts frustrated Man City to keep their first Premier League clean sheet since December – ending a run of 18 games without a shutout.
City welcomed Erling Haaland straight back into the starting XI on his return from injury, but the visitors only hit the target with five of their 26 efforts.
That was their highest shot tally without scoring in a Premier League match since July 2020, which coincidentally was also against Southampton, but Pep Guardiola’s side have now gone goalless in four of their last 11 top-flight games – as many blanks as in their previous 55 in the competition.
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A timely victory against Wolverhampton Wanderers ensured Brighton & Hove Albion kept pace with their fellow European hopefuls.
Fabian Hurzeler’s side went five matches without a win last month, but have now taken seven points from their last three matches as they look to end the season on a high.
Danny Welbeck began the scoring with his 10th league goal in 2024/25 – it's the first time in 17 Premier League seasons that he has reached double figures.
His goal from the penalty spot maintained Brighton’s perfect record of six converted spot-kicks this season. No top-flight side have given away more penalties in 2024/25 than Wolves’ nine.
German midfielder Brajan Gruda chipped Wolves goalkeeper Jose Sa to double the lead with his first Brighton goal.
Wolves' defeat means they have lost consecutive Premier League games for the first time since a run of four losses in January, having won eight of their subsequent 11 matches in the competition.
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Ollie Watkins became Aston Villa’s all-time leading Premier League goalscorer as the Midlands club continued their late-season charge for a Champions League spot.
Watkins' finish from Morgan Rogers’ cross was his 75th top-flight goal, overtaking Gabriel Agbonlahor’s 74 for Villa.
It means Unai Emery’s team have now won seven of their last eight Premier League matches, earning more points since the start of March than any other side, with 21.
Villa survived Jacob Ramsey’s sending off in the 80th minute. In fact, over the course of both fixtures between the two sides this season there were 21 cards issued (20 yellows, one red) – the most in a double-header in a single Premier League campaign.
AFC Bournemouth had just three shots in the opening 80 minutes of the game, before launching seven efforts in the final 10 minutes following Ramsey’s dismissal.
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Newcastle gave their hopes of returning to the Champions League a big boost with victory over fellow top-five rivals Chelsea.
The pair began the day level on points, but goals from Sandro Tonali and Bruno Guimaraes provided a 20th Premier League win of the campaign – the first time they have hit that mark in a single top-flight season since 2002/03.
That was also the last time Newcastle finished in the top three, and they could well repeat that placing now.
Jacob Murphy provided the assist for Tonali’s opener – which came after just two minutes – to take his Premier League season assist tally to 12 goals. The last Newcastle player to provide more in a single campaign was Nolberto Solano in 1999/00.
Having named the same starting XI in three consecutive Premier League matches for the first time since December 2018, Chelsea’s task was made considerably harder when Nicolas Jackson was sent off before half-time for serious foul play against Sven Botman.
Enzo Maresca’s side have now lost six of their last nine away matches in the Premier League.
Since Christmas Day, only Southampton, with four, have picked up fewer away points in the competition than Chelsea’s five.
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A first Premier League win at Old Trafford for almost two decades ended West Ham United’s dreadful run of eight winless matches to inflict yet more domestic misery on Manchester United.
Ruben Amorim’s side have not won in their last seven Premier League games – the club's joint-longest winless run in the competition, alongside a stretch from September to November 1992.
Old Trafford has seen a hefty portion of them. This was their ninth home Premier League defeat of the season – their most home losses in a single league campaign since 1962/63.
West Ham were fully deserving of a victory that came through goals by Tomas Soucek and Jarrod Bowen.
Bowen has scored or assisted in his last four appearances, while Soucek has reached 10 goal involvements (nine goals, one assist) in a Premier League season for only the second time, after also doing so in 2020/21.
Man Utd have failed to score in 14 Premier League matches this season. Only Southampton (15), Everton (15) and Leicester City (16) have drawn a blank more times.
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Forest’s late-season fade continues to put them in danger of failing to secure Champions League football.
Nuno Espirito Santo’s team have won only one of their last six Premier League matches, having failed to win just five of their previous 16 fixtures in the competition.
After falling behind to Conor Coady’s opener, Chris Wood and Morgan Gibbs-White struck back, only for Facundo Buonanotte to earn a point for Leicester late on.
Ruud van Nistelrooy’s side have now scored six goals in their last five league outings – as many as in their prior 17.
Wood’s header meant he became only the second player to reach 20 goals for Forest in a Premier League campaign, after Stan Collymore in 1994/95.
Anthony Elanga’s assist for Gibbs-White was his 10th of the season. Only Bryan Roy, in 1994/95, has provided more assists in a Premier League season for Forest.
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A record 20th defeat of the Premier League season brought Spurs crashing back to earth after qualifying for the UEFA Europa League final in midweek.
Ange Postecoglou made eight changes to the side that won their semi-final against Bodo/Glimt, but saw his team fall to a 24th loss across all competitions this campaign. That leaves them one defeat away from the club-record 25 they suffered in 1991/92.
Conversely, Crystal Palace have now equalled their Premier League record tally of 49 points, ahead of an FA Cup final against Man City on Saturday.
Having scored against Arsenal and Forest, Eberechi Eze struck twice against Spurs – it's the first time in his career that he has scored in three successive league appearances.
Eze now has 15 Premier League goal involvements (seven goals, eight assists) this season, making him only the third Palace player to be involved in 15+ goals in multiple seasons (also 15 in 2023/24), after Wilfried Zaha and Mateta.
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There was no title at stake, but the Premier League’s top two sides played out a thrilling encounter nonetheless, as Arsenal fought back from two goals down to keep their Champions League aspirations in their own hands.
There were just 87 seconds between Cody Gakpo’s opener for Liverpool and Luis Diaz’s strike to make it 2-0.
Since the start of February, only Salah (14), Murphy and Bowen (both nine) have been involved in more Premier League goals than Diaz’s eight (five goals, three assists).
However, in slipping to a draw, it marked the first time since December 2016 that Liverpool have failed to win a Premier League match in which they were two or more goals ahead at half-time.
Arsenal hit back through Gabriel Martinelli and Mikel Merino, although the Spaniard was then shown the club’s sixth red card in the Premier League this season.
Mikel Arteta’s side have won only three of their last 11 league matches.