Ipswich relegated as Newcastle win

Ipswich Town were relegated from the Premier League on Saturday following a 3-0 defeat at Newcastle, with the visitors reduced to ten men after Ben Johnson was sent off for picking up two yellow cards in the first half.

Ipswich have 21 points, 15 behind West Ham United with four games left, while Newcastle moved up to third place on 62, five behind second-placed Arsenal and one ahead of Manchester City in fourth in the race for Champions League football next season.

Needing a victory to have any mathematical chance of staying up, Ipswich were pushed back relentlessly for most of the first half and their task was made all the harder when they lost Ben Johnson to a second booking in the 37th minute.

Alexander Isak put the Magpies ahead with a penalty deep into first-half stoppage time before Dan Burn and William Osula scored with second-half headers to consign Ipswich to the drop.

Brighton & Hove Albion's Kaoru Mitoma and Carlos Baleba struck late goals in a thrilling 3-2 victory over West Ham that ended their run of seven successive games without a victory across all competitions.

West Ham appeared poised to win after second-half goals from Mohammed Kudus and Tomas Soucek cancelled an early strike by the home side's Yasin Ayari.

Carlos Baleba celebrates after scoring a late winner against West Ham

But in a breathless finish, Mitoma levelled with a header in the 89th minute and then Baleba unleashed a blistering shot from distance into the top corner in the 92nd minute before celebrating with a back-flip.

Brighton remain ninth in the table on 51 points, while West Ham, without a victory in seven league games, are languishing 17th with 36.

Wolves extended their remarkable winning run to six games as Matheus Cunha scored one goal and set up two others in a comfortable 3-0 win over relegated Leicester City at Molineux.

Wolves' superb form has propelled them away from the relegation zone and into 13th in the table with 41 points from 34 games. Leicester are in 19th with 18 points from the same number of fixtures.

Cunha's side-footed finished on 33 minutes gave the hosts a deserved lead, before Jorgen Strand Larsen and Rodrigo Gomes added almost identical goals in the second half, both put on a plate by the brilliant Brazilian.

Leicester’s Jamie Vardy missed a penalty - in the week in which he announced he was leaving the club - at the end of the campaign after 13 seasons as the hapless visitors slipped to a 17th loss in their last 19 league matches.

Fulham came from behind to beat bottom side Southampton 2-1 to claim three precious points in their chase for European football after Ryan Sessegnon grabbed the winner in the 92nd minute.

Already-relegated Southampton took the lead from a set-piece in the 14th minute when Jack Stephens scored with a glancing header before Emile Smith Rowe equalised in the 72nd thanks to a deflection off Jan Bednarek.

But with the Saints pegged back and Fulham playing on the front foot, Adama Traore delivered a cross into the box where Sessegnon stooped low to divert a header into the bottom corner.

Fulham moved up to eighth with 51 points while Southampton have four games left to avoid being labelled the joint-worst team in Premier League history, a record set by the 2007/08 Derby County side which finished with 11 points.

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