Right, that’s it from me. Thanks for reading, and for your emails. Here’s the match report from Old Trafford. Night!

Meanwhile, the WSL title race is going to go to the wire after Chelsea snuck a 1-0 win at Tottenham.

Here’s the table with one game to go.

How will the title race be decided? There are many permutations, here they are:

If Man City win and Chelsea draw or lose then City win

If Chelsea win and Man City draw or lose then Chelsea win

If they both win it will be decided on goal difference

If they both draw Chelsea will win on goal difference

If they both lose it will be decided on goal difference

“You’d have to say young Mainoo is a wonderful prospect” emails Dean Kinsella. “Another commanding performance”.

Not sure I would call it commanding, but Mainoo was tidy enough, and got his goal. He certainly hasn’t done his Euros chances any harm. I think the teenager has to be on the plane.

Ten Hag takes to the mic! He’s not a natural orator but walks to the middle of the Old Trafford pitch, and directly addresses the crowd with his players circled around him. Briefly there are more boos than cheers and it threatens to be an embarrassing moment for the Manchester United manager, but he seems to win the crowd over when his speech turns to the FA Cup final.

As we know it was not an easy season. But one thing has remained constant, your support! But the season is not over! We go to Brighton, to get three points, and then we go to Wembley! These players will give everything to bring the cup back to Old Trafford. Thank you, you are the best supporters in the world.

This is the table. Chelsea are in the box seat for sixth, and could even overhaul Tottenham on the final day and finish fifth.

Manchester United can still finish seventh but their goal difference means sixth is out of reach.

Newcastle can now only finish sixth if they win at Brentford and Chelsea lose at home to Bournemouth.

But here’s an important reminder from Alan Terlep.

“Sixth place will only qualify for the Europa League if Man City wins the FA Cup. If Manchester United wins the final, they take that Europa League place and sixth place goes to the Conference League”.

90+6 min: Newcastle pour forward but the crossing is dreadful and Manchester United break at pace. Hojlund and Rashford, both lightning quick, chase the ball, the former crossing for the latter, but Hall somehow gets back to intercept and clear the ball out for a corner. At least it’s at the right end for Manchester United.

90+4 min: Manchester United are doing a decent job of seeing this out. Newcastle can’t seem to create an opening.

90 min: Six minutes added on here. Bruno Fernandes comes on for Eriksen. The Portuguese has been the game’s best player.

87 min: Amrabat booked for bringing down Barnes. Yellow card, which is slightly harsh.

86 min: I really don’t think Nick Pope would have let that in. Dubravka is a decent keeper, but I think could have doe better for Manchester United’s first and third goals tonight.

83 min: Manchester United make a triple change. They are in need of some fresh legs, with Newcastle dominating the ball. Rasmus Hojlund, Lisandro Martinez and Marcus Rashford come on for Alejandro Garnacho and the goalscorers Amad Diallo and Kobbie Mainoo. This is Rashford’s 400th appearance for Manchester United.

82 min: Yellow card for Diallo for kicking the ball away after a foul.

81 min: A rare lull in this game, so time for me to tell you that Celtic have been crowned as champions of Scotland once more.

79 min: Schar penalised for coming through the back of Fernandes. A deserved booking.

78 min: Newcastle make their fourth change: Barnes on for Longstaff. That means Gordon will switch from the left wing to central striker.

76 min: “Schalke legend Klaus Fischer made the bicycle kick something of a specialty, but he peaked with a goal which has a claim to being the best goal that never was,” emails Kári Tulinius. “Rainer Bonhof set him up beautifully with the outside of his boot and Fischer did the assist justice. Unfortunately, Scottish referee John Gordon deemed his foot to be too close to a Soviet defender Sergei Prigoda’s head, so it was chalked off.”

74 min: Dubravka fumbles a back-pass and gives away a sloppy corner, from which Casemiro heads wide!

72 min: Newcastle so close to an equaliser! Gordon again finds space in Manchester United’s area, beats Casemiro down the outside and shoots with his left towards the far corner. The ball beats Onana, beats Almiron sliding in and beats the far post. Inches wide of all three.

70 min: Casemiro catches Isak with a clumsy leg. Remember the Manchester United man has already been booked. It probably wasn’t a yellow, but it wasn’t far off.

67 min: From the resulting corner, Manchester United counter-attack at speed, before Gordon pulls Diallo down to the turf. Yellow card.

66 min: Newcastle hit the bar! A cross comes in from the right, Joelinton rises highest at the back post but the Brazilian can’t direct it on target. The ball hits the top of the bar and goes over! Most inside Old Trafford, apparently including the referee, think Onana has saved it, but I’m pretty sure that was just woodwork. Still, it’s a corner.

64 min: Fernandes, easily the best player on the pitch, somehow wiggles away from Gordon and Hall, and unleashes a thunderous effort that flies just over the Newcastle bar. Dubravka was in trouble if that was on target.

62 min: Triple change for Newcastle: Joelinton, Miguel Almiron and Fabian Schar for Jacob Murphy, Kieran Trippier and the booked Elliot Anderson.

Looks like Gordon has run off that injury he was struggling with earlier.

GOAL! Brighton 0-2 Chelsea (Nkunku 64)

Another goal at the Amex! Chelsea are up to sixth with that score. Here’s the live table. If scores stay as they are, they will need just a draw against Bournemouth on Sunday to secure Europa League football. A remarkable effort from where they were earlier in the season.

59 min: The sort of shot you’d like to get the speed-o-meter out for.

Apparently, this is the fastest ever shot recorded: Ronny Heberson vs Associação Naval 1º de Maio, 2006 (131.8 miles per hour).

55 min: Gordon has got a problem, he’s limping. It may be related to the penalty incident in the first half. Not good, with the Euros looming (England assistant Steve Holland is here, by the way).

53 min: How are Newcastle not ahead?! From a Manchester United corner, the ball comes out as far as Wan-Bissaka, who mis-controls the ball. Suddenly Newcastle are away, and they have three on one! Gordon, Isak and Longstaff canter into Manchester United’s half with only Amrabat for company. Can Gordon draw the defender and pick the right pass? He passes to Isak, who looks clean through on goal, but Amrabat somehow recovers to make a sensational block: the ball looping up over Onana and onto the top of the crossbar for a corner. How did Manchester United get away with that?!

51 min: Murphy has quietly had a very impressive second half to the season for Newcastle. The winger’s crossing has been brilliant these last few months.

48 min: Two early chances for Newcastle, a very sloppy start for Manchester United! Guimaraes gets some space from the edge of the area, but a deflected shot is saved by Onana. Then Gordon is left one-on-one in the area, but Casemiro makes another crucial block! Wow!

Peeeeep! The second half begins.

This was the penalty incident, by the way. It’s a clear foul, so much so that Gordon played the rest of the half with a huge hole in the back of his sock, where Amrabat caught him. Not giving a penalty is forgivable in real time, such was the speed of the incident, but Newcastle will be fuming that this wasn’t picked up by VAR, who have the benefit of many angles and slow-motion. On the day that VAR is being debated, this feels pertinent.

This video was taken before tonight’s game: Rashford clashing with home fans.

Half-time reading below. I’m off for a cuppa.

45+2 min: Manchester United work a short corner, from which Diallo plays a neat one-two to somehow engineer some space inside Newcastle’s six-yard box, but Murphy makes a brilliant last-ditch tackle to deny the Ivorian. Old Trafford groans, they wanted their winger to pull the trigger.

45 min: Three minutes added on here. This has been a very even first half.

42 min: Newcastle really pushing for this equaliser, with Gordon the creator in chief. Trippier is also playing really high and putting in some dangerous crosses. One comes from a corner, where Guimaraes is completely unmarked at the back post! The Brazilian watches it all the way, and heads inexplicably five yards wide!

40 min: Casemiro is going to be OK. He’s kept Manchester United in the game this first half!

39 min: A nasty fall for Casemiro, who is really in the thick of the action tonight. He falls badly on his coccyx and looks like he might need to go off. Ouch.

37 min: Yellow card for Anderson, who trips McTominay.

Having a look a the replay for that challenge on Gordon. Casemiro’s tackle was clean, but there was clear contact by the retreating Amrabat on Gordon! Was harder to see because there were effectively two tackles in a millisecond, but the Moroccan’s tackle was definitely a foul.

35 min: Whisper it, but after a rocky start, Casemiro is having a stormer at centre back! Two Newcastle chances come and go in a couple of minutes. First, Amrabat gifts possession to Gordon, who bounds into the area and falls to the ground! Penalty?! No! Casemiro times his slide tackle to perfection.

A minute later, Casemiro clears off the line! A Newcastle cross goes to the back post, Burn heads back but Casemiro is there to head clear. It was centimetres from crossing the goaline. There is a check of the watch from the referee, but no goal!

33 min: Newcastle nearly hit back straight away. Gordon gets free on the right, rolls a beautiful low cross across the six-yard box but nobody is there to tap it in at the back post! A very similar chance to the one that Haaland converted for City’s first goal at Tottenham. Isak was on his heels!

28 min: Both sides lacking a bit of fluency. Fernandes has been the best player on the pitch so far, with Gordon the most likely from Newcastle to make something happen.

26 min: Great save from Dubravka! Manchester United hit Newcastle on the counter-attack, with Fernandes and Garnacho twice exchanging passes, the latter getting free down the left. It’s an acute angle, but Garnacho has a shot at goal. Dubravka advances and closes the angle well, and it goes out from a corner, from which Diallo tries another volley. This time, it’s in the Stretford End.

Brighton 0-1 Chelsea (Palmer 34)

22 min: In tonight’s other game, there has been a goal. “An absolutely filthy header from a perfect Cucurella cross,” adds Joe Pearson by email. Cucurella is playing against his old club, remember.

20 min: A couple of decent openings for both teams. From a corner, Diallo scuffs a glorious opportunity to volley a Bruno Fernandes corner into the Newcastle net. For the visitors, Hall tries his luck from range, but Onana saves easily enough.

18 min: Alan Smith, on Sky co-commentary duty, has just described Garnacho’s bicycle kick against Everton as “the best I’ve ever seen”.

It’s definitely up there, but not sure it’s better than Trevor Sinclair’s effort or Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s acrobatics against England?

16 min: Better from the home side. Fernandes is finding pockets of space and finding both Mainoo and Wan-Bissaka with neat passes. Diallo gets a shot off from range, which stings Dubravka’s palms.

15 min: Manchester United are mixing up it from the back, sometimes playing out, sometimes kicking long. So far, so good.

12 min: Oceans of space for Longstaff in midfield – where are Mainoo and Amrabat?! – and the Newcastle man has a free run at Manchester United’s defence. Options left and right but Casemiro makes a fine interception as Longstaff tries to find Isak.

9 min: McTominay, who is operating as a roving forward, wins a free-kick off Burn, from which Casemiro tries an acrobatic bicycle kick. It’s not far away!

5 min: Almost a catastrophic error from Casemiro! The Brazilian saunters out with the ball from centre-back, loses possession and suddenly there is a giant hole at the heart of Manchester United’s defence. Murphy slips in Isak, who in turn finds Gordon, but just as the winger is breaking into the area, Amrabat makes a textbook slide tackle to clear the danger for the home side. Wasn’t quite as good as the tackle on Mbappé at the 2022 World Cup, but not far off.

4 min: Newcastle won the toss and made Manchester United change ends, so it’s the home side kicking towards the Stretford End in the first half. That will irk many inside the ground.

2 min: Early chance for Isak as Hall crosses, just too high for the Swede, who was completely unchallenged as he jumped on the six-yard box. A nervy start for the home team.

Peeeeep! We’re off at Old Trafford.

Should flag that Ten Hag got a warm reception from the home fans before kick-off, on his way from the tunnel to the dugout. And plenty of handshakes with the fans behind him as he sat down.

“Has the particularly obnoxious banner displayed at Old Trafford been amended to read ‘Not arrogant, just eighth’?” asks Richard Hirst.

“Why on earth not play Kambwala?” emails Tim Stappard. “Bonkers”.

Does seem to be a strange one, particularly against this pacy attack. And it’s not as though Jonny Evans is jet-heeled.

Newcastle manager Eddie Howe talks:

We’ve got two massive games. We’re going to need to be very good today. [European qualification] is close, but also very far away.

Trippier creates goals, attacks. His technical ability is of the highest level. He’s not trained much but he’s in a good condition to play.

Pleased to say that we’re not due for another downpour tonight in Manchester, although there might be some light drizzle closer to kick-off. Classic.

Meanwhile …

This is a fascinating story, and long overdue. Thank goodness that someone has put their head above the parapet – well done Wolves. VAR is a complete shambles and fundamentally takes the joy out of football. This is a game, and it’s more important for it to be fun than for it to be forensically accurate.

Should also flag that this isn’t the only Premier League game tonight. Chelsea, who are seventh and in excellent form (one Arsenal result aside), travel to Brighton. That’s a 7.45pm BST kick-off, and I’ll keep you abreast of the latest on the south coast.

Someone else lurking on the sidelines is Newcastle’s Nick Pope. This is his third game on the bench since his return from long-term injury – the goalkeeper suffered a freak shoulder injury in tonight’s return fixture in a 1-0 win over Manchester United on 2 December. He is undoubtedly Newcastle’s No 1.

Whatever the injury situation is, it’s a sad state of affairs for United fans to have Casemiro and Evans at centre back. Ten Hag has spent over £400m since coming in, and this squad has cost £1.2bn …

Interesting comments from Ten Hag. It’s not clear who will lead the line for Manchester United tonight, probably Bruno Fernandes as a false nine. The Portuguese missed the defeats to Crystal Palace and Arsenal, remember.

Marcus Rashford hasn’t played since the FA Cup semi-final against Coventry on 21 April and he makes the bench tonight. Lisandro Martínez also is in reserve, the Argentinian has played just one match since 4 February. He has been a big miss and part of the reason that Casemiro partners Evans tonight again at centre back. Have to say I’m surprised to see the Brazilian back there again after the shambles against Arsenal. Isak, Gordon and Murphy will be licking their lips.

Erik ten Hag speaks:

You have seen, the last games, we have academy players on the bench. Now we have players that can make the difference if they come on. They want to fight for this club.

On Hojlund being rested

We want to keep him fresh. It’s a long season for the young players. We have Brighton, we have a cup final.

Who will play up front instead?

You will see. Everything is possible [he says coyly with a smile]

On Casemiro starting at centre back.

He played some good games, some downfalls. Obviously in the last game [against Arsenal] there was a bad moment. We know he can do the job, so he has to do the job.