The pivotal result of the weekend may have been higher up and solved nothing other than which team finishes as runner-up in the Premier League, but elsewhere there were big calls up and down the country.

Bournemouth played very well at Turf Moor but were on the wrong end of a 3-0 defeat that will worry fans of The Cherries who fear that their team’s soft centres instead of the stones they need to survive in the Premier League might send them down.

Elsewhere, there were massive victories for Crystal Palace and Southampton as they made big moves away from the relegation zone, while Sheffield United were held to a draw at Bramall Lane by strugglers Brighton.

Manchester United and Wolverhampton Wanderers both did their European chances no harm at all as they recorded regulation wins over Watford and Norwich City respectively to keep both away teams in relegation trouble.