Chelsea vs Manchester United LIVE: Score and goal updates from Premier League

Next up: Nottingham Forest away.

Another team vying for Champions League qualification, it will all come down to the Premier League final day.

Villa’s memorable run to the quarter-finals of this season’s competition gave them the taste for more and they boosted their hopes with an eighth win from their last nine Premier League games.

This was probably the biggest home banker of the campaign given where Spurs’ focus lay, but Villa made hard work of it, needing second-half goals from Ezri Konsa and Boubacar Kamara to get the job done.

However, Chelsea’s win over Manchester United later on Friday night means they have to win their final game of the season at Old Trafford and hope other teams, including Enzo Maresca’s side and Manchester City, drop points.

As per Opta, Ruben Amorim has won 24 points in 26 Premier League games, a points per game ratio of 0.92. This is lower than Paul Jewell’s Premier League points per game (0.94), who managed 24 winless games at Derby when they finished on 11 points in 2007-08.

Amorim has previously said that this is one of the worst Manchester United teams ever. I’m not sure you need the words “Manchester United” in that statement.

«I think that’s where the club belongs, in the Champions League,” he told Sky Sports. “Competing in the best competitions.

«People like to write us off and call us inexperienced. We played against a very experienced United team today. We were there and we won the game. We got what we needed to do.»

«I think we started great, well but in the final third we needed to be a bit more aggressive,” Amorim told BBC Sport.

“We were there, we faced the game in the right way. It was a bit of bad luck today. Sometimes we want to press and to score a goal but we lost a little bit of concentration.

«It was different but you never like when you lose the game. We were competitive, that was clear.

«We have to prepare for each competition, with five days, we can rest. We have five days to prepare [for the Europa League final], two days to fully recover and then two days to prepare.

«Of course, we are excited to be in the final. Since day one the pressure has been there but I live quite well with the pressure. When you have the final of any cup, we show up so we are prepared for that.»

“We are very happy, we deserved a moment like this,” he told BBC Sport. “We know that we needed to stay in the game and we gave all that we had and we have three points that I think we deserve.

«It is very important (to get Champions League football), step by step we are creating something special and now only two games left to achieve something special.

“The most important thing is it depends on us so we have to play the game on Sunday and then we are thinking about the [Conference League] final. Today is a moment to enjoy because we work all season for these moments so now we have ambitions to achieve these things.»

«In the end I looked at all the players and I think they are ok,” Amorim told BBC Sport.

A rare positive for Man United.

«It was quite confident because I know how difficult it is to play against United,” he told Sky Sports.

«We expected a very tough game. They played very well. I was completely confident, overall, it was a game that we could have a good moment and score a goal.

«I used to watch five, six, seven games when we play against a team. I have never watched them [Man Utd] so aggressive – they were man to man, and it was very difficult.

«Off the ball I think we played a fantastic game. The team was very aggressive until the end, we tried to press higher, and I think we deserved to win the game.

«It is nice to work on some solutions and then you score.”

Chelsea’s destiny was slipping from their grasp. They sat in sixth, the time ticking away, the verdicts that, once again, they were blue billion-pound bottle jobs growing nearer.

Until the man who was one of the first of their £1.2bn spending spree, who, for a while, had looked one of the worst of them, intervened.

Richard Jolly reports from Stamford Bridge:

A mixture of joy and relief at Stamford Bridge at the end. That was getting increasingly tense, until Cucurella intervened.