The Dozen: the weekend’s best Premier League photos
Your weekend round-up of the best photography from England’s top flight
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Pascal Gross scores for Brighton to beat Manchester United 1-0 at the AMEX and secure their place in the Premier League for another season. Brighton registered only their second win in 19 matches against Manchester United, their first since a 1-0 victory in the top flight in November 1982.Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images via Reuters
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Stoke City’s Peter Crouch battles Crystal Palace’s Ruben Loftus-Cheek for the ball as Palace win 2-1 at the bet365 Stadium, sending Stoke down after 10 years in the top flight. Crystal Palace are the first top-flight team since Liverpool in the 1899-1900 season to avoid relegation despite losing their first seven matches of the season.Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA
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Nathan Dyer of Swansea City is challenged by Bournemouth’s Nathan Ake as The Cherries win 1-0 at the Vitality Stadium. The Swans have lost three consecutive Premier League games without scoring for only the second time ever, since a a three-game run in September 2012.Photograph: Dan Istitene/Getty Images
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West Ham United’s Mark Noble celebrates scoring the second goal to beat Leicester 2-0 at the King Power Stadium. West ham secured their spot in the Premier League for another season. The Hammers have scored in their past 11 away league games - their longest scoring run in the top flight since December 1966 (14 games).Photograph: Tim Goode/PA
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West Bromwich Albion’s Craig Dawson beats Tottenham’s Davinson Sanchez to the ball as The Baggies win 1-0 at the Hawthorns thanks to an injury time winner from Jake Livermore, giving them a chance of avoiding relegation. Tottenham have lost 20 Premier League games thanks to goals scored in the 90th minute or later, more than any other side in the competition.Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images via Reuters
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West Brom fans celebrate Livermore’s goal. Livermore has scored two goals in his past three Premier League games for West Brom, after failing to score in his first 46 for the club. West Brom have won 10 points against big six sides in the Premier League this season - only Man City (24), Man Utd (19) and Spurs (13) have won more.Photograph: Marc Atkins/Offside via Getty Images
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Dejected Southampton players on their knees after Everton’s Tom Davies scored a 96th minute equaliser and pulling them back into a relegation battle at Goodison Park. The Saints meet West Brom on Tuesday in a real six pointer, the winner will survive, the looser, relegated.Photograph: Andrew Yates/Reuters
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Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk clashes with Chelsea’s Olivier Giroud as Chelsea win 1-0 at Stamford Bridge thanks to Giroud’s goal, his first scored in a league game in which he started since May 2017 for Arsenal - each of his previous six goals in the competition had come from the bench. Since the turn of the Millennium, this was the 56th meeting between Chelsea and Liverpool in all competitions, making it the most played fixture between English sides in all competitions in the 21st century.Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images
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General view of the Etihad Stadium as Manchester City walk out prior to their 0-0 draw against Huddersfield. This was ep Guardiola’s 25th 0-0 draw as a manager of Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City, in what was his 519th game.Photograph: Manchester City FC/via Getty Images
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Vincent Kompany lifts the Premier League trophy with Sergio Agüero. More records could yet fall in their final two matches of the season, against Brighton and Southampton, with only one more goal needed to equal the highest tally in a Premier League season - the 103 scored by Chelsea in the 2009-10 campaign.Photograph: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images
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Pep Guardiola gets the celebration bumps. Guardiola said: “England is a special place and is so tough. Today we saw it. You never know if you are going to win, but I had no doubt what I had to do. You win or lose, you have to try and do what you believe. Today was proof we can do better, 11 players were playing in the Premier League. We lost a bit of focus, but that is normal. To make back-to-back titles in this league will be tough, but we accept the challenge.”Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters
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Arsène Wenger walks out for the last time at the Emirates stadium as Arsenal manager before his team beat Burnley 5-0. Wenger’s reign at The Gunners lasted 7,876 days, his first game in charge was against Blackburn at Ewood Park in 1996, which Arsenal won 2-0. No manager has taken charge of more Premier League home games than Wenger (414), winning 286. Only Sir Alex Ferguson has won more in the competition’s history (305).Photograph: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images
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