Premier League live: Scores and updates as Spurs and West Ham fight for survival

All Leeds United in the opening ten minutes at London Stadium (Kit Shepard writes). Dominic Calvert-Lewin is finding space and Lukas Nmecha could have had a tap-in after James Justin fired across goal, but the forward couldn’t quite adjust his feet in time. West Ham United need to get going.

Worth remembering that Leeds were pretty much safe when they won away to Manchester United last month, yet have won three and lost none of their five league games since. They are unlikely to be on the beach today (even if the scorching weather makes such thoughts tempting).

On a day of goodbyes across the Premier League, Fulham fans are unsure whether today will be the end of an era (Joe Harston writes). The contract of Marco Silva, the head coach, ends this summer and he is yet to make a decision on his future despite an offer being on the table.

Harry Wilson and Raúl Jiménez both start on the bench in what could also be their final games for Fulham with their contracts coming to an end too.

An Adam Armstrong penalty has given Wolves the lead away to Burnley. A Wolves win would see them leapfrog the Lancashire side into 19th.

As you would expect, both Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson are being given the five-star treatment by Liverpool fans as they prepare to wave goodbye to Anfield (James Shield writes). Interesting, though, that after some recent outbursts it is the Scot, not Salah, whose name is being sung with the most gusto.

Brighton v Manchester United is under way and the Amex Stadium which is fine voice (Peter Rutzler writes). There will be plenty of score-checking going on here, as Brighton battle for a spot in Europe. If results go their way, the Champions League is not off the table either.

United’s season is all wrapped up as Michael Carrick takes charge of his first game as the club’s permanent head coach. Bruno Fernandes, though, isn’t done yet. He needs one more assist to break the Premier League record in a single season. Will he get it?

Morgan Gibbs-White leads the Forest team out at the City Ground and the home support make their feelings known about their captain being omitted from the England World Cup squad. “Thomas Tuchel, you’re a wanker” was the chant aired as the two sides lined up. Based on his performances this season he was unlucky not to get the call.

De Zerbi was firing up the Tottenham supporters before kick-off here as the players warmed up — I think deliberately close to the hoardings by the South Stand (Tom Allnutt writes). Great atmosphere, blue and white flags flying, fans in full voice, players walking out to a huge roar. Will the fans stick with them if things go wrong? Or if West Ham score? Emotions are going to play such a big part in this game.

Pep Guardiola’s family and friends are on hand to say farewell in person (Ian Whittell writes). His 94-year-old father Valentí is here. So are former players Fernandinho, Ederson and Ilkay Gundogan, and Joe Mazzulla, the Boston Celtics basketball coach who won the NBA Finals in 2024 and has become a close friend of the City manager.

Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth are preparing to bring this crazy season to a close (Charlotte Duncker writes). What a campaign it has been for both of this clubs.

Forest have gone through four managers, a whirlwind European campaign and flirted with relegation. But Vitor Pereira’s side are safe so this afternoon is all about Bournemouth.

The few thousand away fans behind the goal are preparing to say goodbye to Andoni Iraola as he takes charge of his final game and there is still Champions League football on the line.

European football is already secure, but which competition? Bournemouth are looking to finish the season on a high by extending that unbeaten run to 18 games and join Europe’s elite next season.

Forest are about to unveil the John Robertson stand in tribute of their greatest-ever player who passed away last year. Thoughts with some of his former team-mates who are pitchside wearing suits and Forest scarves — not the attire you’d choose in 27C heat.

Author Jason Cowley reflects on Arsenal’s title success: “Arsenal do not play with the swagger of the Wenger teams of old; they often remind me more of the mid-period, defensively impregnable George Graham team that won two league titles.”

Read the full story via the link below.

Jason Cowley: Euphoria in Islington reminded me of 1989 — it’s easy to be an Arsenal fan again

Matthew Syed thinks that Roberto De Zerbi should take leaf out of Sir Alex Ferguson’s book and not play it safe today. Read his column via the link below.

Matthew Syed: My advice to Spurs and Roberto De Zerbi: forget draw and aim for the win

The Pep farewell show is gearing up at the Etihad but there are some massively serious football issues to be resolved here today — indirectly at least (Ian Whittell writes).

A Villa defeat, and Liverpool win, will see Unai Emery’s team finish fifth and open up sixth place for an additional Champions League spot — good news for Bournemouth or Brighton & Hove Albion.

Guardiola may have rung the changes but so has Emery — eight of them from the starting line-up that won the Europa League on Wednesday. Victor Lindelof, Emiliano Buendía and Ollie Watkins are the only survivors from Istanbul.

Walking to the London Stadium, the atmosphere among West Ham fans was relatively upbeat (Kit Shepard writes). Perhaps their team’s plight encourages positivity.

They have little to lose this afternoon and looked set for relegation after folding away to Newcastle United last Sunday, only for Tottenham Hotspur’s defeat by Chelsea two days later to provide a lifeline. Still, based on a quick canvass of the press room, few expect West Ham to beat Leeds United and Spurs to lose to Everton today — the only realistic equation that keeps West Ham up. I think we can rule out Tottenham drawing and West Ham winning by 12.

So, West Ham fans appear psychologically prepared for the drop. Yet will that composure last if they or Everton get an early goal?

Nuno Espírito Santo, West Ham United’s head coach, is not one for sugarcoating the club’s plight.

“There are many things we could say about the last few matches,” reads the second sentence of his programme notes. “And it’s true that almost none of them are good.”

West Ham have lost their past three games by an aggregate score of 7-1.

Red flares and a party atmosphere greeted Chelsea at the Stadium of Light (Simon Bird writes). Sunderland need a win to have any chance of qualifying for Europe, and hope other results help them out.

Back in August if you’d have said Sunderland would be playing for something on the last day, you’d have assumed it’d be at the other end of the table, such is the miracle Régis Le Bris and his squad have worked. A continental campaign would be a bonus, their first since November 1973.

For the visitors Europe is a necessity, with new boss Xabi Alonso taking charge next season and needing some sort of midweek elite challenge.

Chelsea have made three changes to the team who beat Spurs in midweek, with João Pedro, Levi Colwill and Malo Gusto back.

Summer vibes on the High Road outside the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the pubs all packed inside and out after thousands of Spurs fans gathered to roar the arrival of the team bus (Tom Allnutt writes).

Nerves? Plenty. Tottenham know the score. A point against Everton today and they are realistically safe. Lose and they will be relying on West Ham failing to win at home to Leeds United.

One optimistic Spurs supporter on the way here pointed out the wifi in the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is far superior to the London Stadium so, he thought, Spurs fans will at least be one step ahead on the updates.

Randal Kolo Muani has been dropped in what is Roberto De Zerbi’s only change from the defeat to Chelsea on Tuesday. Pedro Porro and Djed Spence are both in, which suggests one of them, probably Spence, will be deployed on the wing.

Arsenal’s Max Dowman became the Premier League’s youngest goalscorer earlier this season. Today he will become the youngest player to start a Premier League match — aged 16 years, 144 days.

Mohamed Salah leaves Liverpool under a cloud after voicing concerns about club’s direction but we should not forget his stellar contributions to a golden age. Read Paul Joyce’s story via the link below.

Paul Joyce: A sour ending, but Mo Salah’s wizardry outweighs gripes and grenades

Today marks Andy Robertson’s last game in a Liverpool shirt. He starts against Brentford.

Seamus Coleman could also play one last time for Everton. He is on the bench for the match away to Spurs.

Manuel Akanji, the former Manchester City defender, paid tribute to Guardiola, saying that you can always learn something from him. Read the full story via the link below.

‘He’s obsessed’ — Akanji on what it’s really like to play for Pep

The teams are in at the London Stadium…

The teams are in…

Fair to say the Tottenham players got quite the welcome from their fans…

Mohamed Salah and Andrew Robertson both start on what will be their final games for Liverpool (Paul Joyce writes). The focus has been on their farewells, and there are supporters who have even travelled from Egypt to see Salah bow out. However, head coach Arne Slot’s side needs a point to guarantee Champions League qualification against Brentford.

The visitors, meanwhile, still have a chance of reach Europe for the first time in their history.

Alisson also starts in goal for Liverpool for the first time since March, while Jordan Henderson, Caiomhin Kelleher and Sepp van den Berg are in the Brentford line-up.

Henderson, remember, is back at Anfield for the first time since leaving in the summer of 2023. He is the only Liverpool captain to lift six different trophies.

With nothing but pride on the line for City, Pep Guardiola has made wholesale changes to his line-up for his final match in charge (Paul Hirst writes). Of the team that started against Bournemouth on Tuesday, only two players — Bernardo Silva and Antoine Semenyo — retain their place. Gianluigi Donnarumma and Erling Haaland have been rested and are not even on the bench. John Stones, who like Silva, is leaving this summer, makes his first league start at the Etihad Stadium since City’s first home match of the season, which was a 2-0 loss to Tottenham Hotspur on August 23.

Today marks Pep Guardiola’s final game in charge of Manchester City, who will name a stand at the Etihad in his honour.

You can read the latest column by David Walsh, who was awarded the Hugh McIlvanney Award for Sports Journalist of the Year at the Press Awards on Thursday, below.

David Walsh: Pep Guardiola gave entire being to City, but this season was one too many

Aston Villa start the day in fourth place and will be playing the Champions League next season after winning the Europa League. Liverpool are fifth and need a point at home to Brentford to secure their place at Europe’s top table.

If Villa finish fourth, the teams finishing sixth and seventh — currently Bournemouth and Brighton — will qualify for the Europa League and the team finishing eighth — currently Chelsea — will go into the Conference League.

But if Villa end the day in fifth, the team finishing sixth will go into the Champions League instead.

This is the newly-opened and renamed “Pep Guardiola Stand” at the Etihad Stadium (Paul Hirst writes). The expansion of the stand, previously known as the North Stand, began three years ago and contains an extra 7,000 seats, which means that there will be a record crowd of 62,000 plus fans for Guardiola’s farewell, and that of John Stones and Bernardo Silva.

Today’s match against Aston Villa promises to be an emotional affair for the trio, who have 29 years’ service to City between them.

Guardiola’s farwell message, which contains references to Manchester’s history, including the Pankhursts, the Industrial Revolution and the city’s music, are included in his final programme notes.

One of Tottenham Hotspur or West Ham United will be relegated from the Premier League today and join Burnley and Wolves in the Championship next season.

Given Spurs have a far superior goal difference, a draw at home to Everton should be enough to survive — but a win will definitely get the job done.

West Ham need to beat Leeds United and hope that Everton can do them a massive favour by defeating Spurs.

Brighton & Hove Albion v Manchester United

Burnley v Wolves

Crystal Palace v Arsenal

Fulham v Newcastle United

Liverpool v Brentford

Manchester City v Aston Villa

Nottingham Forest v Bournemouth

Sunderland v Chelsea

Tottenham Hotspur v Everton

West Ham United v Leeds United

Good afternoon. Welcome to our live blog covering the final round of Premier League fixtures.

Arsenal may have already won the title but there is still plenty at stake today as Spurs and West Ham fight for survival while Liverpool will be hoping to secure a Champions League place before saying goodbye to Mohamed Salah.

There’s also the small matter of Pep Guardiola’s final game in charge of Manchester City.

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