Sheff Utd cruise history Chelsea, Liverpool's record bid hit by Burnley
Sheffield United dealt a major blow to Chelsea's likelihood of a Premier Group top-four finish by simply thrashing the Blues 3-0 in Bramall Lane, even while Liverpool's long winning run at Anfield found an end in a good draw with Burnley in Saturday.
Manchester City did promise their presence in the most notable four for a 10th successive time of year with Raheem Sterling scoring a hat-trick in a 5-0 win at Brighton.
However, they have to wait for the results on Monday of their charm against a two-time ban from European competitions to see if indeed they will play Champions Group football next season.
Norwich will be using in the Championship soon after Michail Antonio's four-objective blitz confirmed the Canaries' relegation in a thumping 4-0 gain for West Ham which should seal the Hammers' top-flight position for another year.
Sheffield United have extended since realized that feat within their first season found in the Premier League for 13 years and the Blades remain eying the very best four themselves because they moved inside five items of fourth-placed Leicester.
Chelsea remain in third, but could end the weekend straight down in fifth if Leicester and Manchester United beat Bournemouth and Southampton respectively.
The Blues have previously reinforced their attack for up coming time of year with the signings of Timo Werner and Hakim Ziyech, but Frank Lampard was again shown it is at the different end his area desperately need to improve.
David McGoldrick's long await a first Premier League goal came to a finish when he was quickest to react after Kepa Arrizabalaga preserved Oli McBurnie's deflected shot.
Even more slack defending from the tourists then allowed McBurnie a free of charge header to double the hosts' lead.
Lampard sent on Antonio Rudiger at the start of the second-half, but the German international did little to boost Chelsea's defending while his attempted clearance from Lys Mousset's cross just teed up McGoldrick to rating his second 13 minutes from time.
"They were much better than us, physically, in your brain and with the ball," said Lampard. "I learned a lot and I won't forget that."
- Liverpool held -
For the very first time since January 2018, Liverpool failed to win a Premier League game at Anfield as an inspired performance by Nick Pope in the Burnley goal and Jay Rodriguez's equaliser to cancel out Andy Robertson's first-half header gave Burnley a share of the spoils.
Jurgen Klopp's men nowadays need to get their remaining three game titles to end up being surpass the record total of 100 points found in a Premier League time of year set by City 2 yrs ago.
"We left the entranceway open up, we didn't close it. We ought to have have scored two, three, four goals at least," said Klopp.
City scored 4 or even more goals for the fourth amount of time in six league games in Brighton.
Sterling's treble took his best ever season's tally to 27, even though Gabriel Jesus and Bernardo Silva also netted found in another rout for a good pleased Pep Guardiola, who's hoping his players' work on the pitch are actually rewarded by playing Champions League soccer next season.
"We deserve to end up being there because we won it on the pitch. Hopefully on Monday UEFA can allow us to play such as this workforce and these players should have to," said Guardiola.
- Norwich relegated -
At Carrow Highway, a seventh successive league defeat condemned Norwich to relegation as Antonio's ruthless screen boosted West Ham's individual survival bid.
"We wished to beat the odds again however when the dust settles the results is pretty much what was predicted. It doesn't take anything from the fact that we are disappointed," supervisor Daniel Farke said.
West Ham's second gain in four game titles opens up a six-point cushion over underneath three.
The first signs were ominous for Norwich as West Ham took the lead in the 11th minute through Antonio's close-range volley.
Antonio struck again found in first-half stoppage-time, glancing his header in to the far corner from Tag Noble's free-kick.
He completed his hat-trick in the 54th minute with a looping header and his fourth came in the 74th minute from Ryan Fredericks' cross.
Watford also moved to the brink of survival as being two Troy Deeney penalties beat Newcastle 2-1 to go level with West Ham on 34 points.
