Third-bottom Ipswich are 15 points behind fourth-bottom West Ham with four games left after their 3-0 defeat against Newcastle, ensuring their first season in the top-flight for 22 years will end with an immediate return to the Championship.

Newcastle's Alexander Isak converted a penalty after Jacob Murphy was fouled by Julio Enciso in first-half stoppage time. Dan Burn's 56th-minute header doubled Newcastle's lead, and William Osula's 80th-minute goal left Ipswich with no chance of beating the drop.

McKenna, 38, had earned plaudits for Ipswich's attacking style during their surge up the divisions after his appointment in 2021, but was unable to preserve Ipswich's top-flight status. Newcastle climb to third place as the Carabao Cup winners eye Champions League qualification.

Enzo Maresca saluted Chelsea's "nasty" performance after a gritty success against Everton that kept them in the hunt for a Champions League berth. Nicolas Jackson struck for the first time since December to seal a vital victory at Stamford Bridge.

Ryan Sessegnon struck in stoppage time as Fulham won 2-1 at Southampton to stop the hosts moving past the record-low Premier League points total set by Derby.

Jack Stephens' 14th-minute opener had Southampton on course for a first home league victory since November, but Emile Smith Rowe levelled for Fulham after 72 minutes.

A draw would have helped Southampton move onto 12 points and avoid Derby's unwanted lowest-ever Premier League points total of 11 from the 2007-08 season, only for Sessegnon to net in the final seconds.

Brighton reignited their European push by piling more misery on former manager Graham Potter with a dramatic 3-2 victory over West Ham at the Amex Stadium.

Potter, who left Albion to join Chelsea in 2022, saw Mohammed Kudus and Tomas Soucek put the Hammers ahead after Yasin Ayari's opener for Brighton.

But Kaoru Mitoma headed the Seagulls level in the 89th minute before Carlos Baleba sensationally curled home from distance in stoppage time. Brighton ended a five-match winless run, while West Ham's dismal streak extended to a seventh game without victory.

Potter has taken just 13 points from 14 games since replacing the sacked Julen Lopetegui in January. Wolves claimed a club record-equalling sixth successive top-flight win as they put relegated Leicester to the sword with a 3-0 victory at Molineux.

Matheus Cunha, Jorgen Strand Larsen and Rodrigo Gomes scored for Wolves, who last won six in a row in the top-flight in 1970, while second-bottom Leicester's winless run stretched to 11 matches.

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