Kane fires Spurs into Champions League as Chelsea's charge falters

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fired Tottenham Hotspur into next season's as Chelsea faltered in a 1-1 draw at home to Huddersfield that secured survival for the Terriers.

At the other end of the table, only defeat for finalists at home to Brighton at the weekend will give Chelsea any chance of a top-four finish as their late season charge came undone at

A surprisingly much-changed Chelsea side from the one that beat four days ago fell behind when forced the ball home five minutes into the second-half.

Recognising the error of his team selection, threw on Olivier Giroud and Eden Hazard from the bench, and was quickly rewarded when levelled just after the hour mark.

However, Huddersfield held on desperately in the final half hour to secure the vital point that guaranteed another season in the top flight.

Spurs capitalised on Chelsea's slip-up to ensure they will have football for a third consecutive campaign when they move into a new 62,000 capacity stadium next season.

Tottenham had won just one of their previous five matches and were again far from their best in a nervy display.

But Kane proved to be their talisman once more as his 39th goal of the season just after half-time was enough to move Spurs above into third.

At the Etihad, champions Manchester City added three more records to a sensational season by breaking the previous best marks for wins, points and goals in a 3-1 victory over Brighton.

Pep Guardiola's men also bid farewell to in the Ivorian's final home game in City colours.

Toure was an inspirational figure in City's first two title wins of a free-spending era under Sheikh Mansour's ownership.

However, he has been relegated to a supporting role this season in a supremely talented squad that has now racked up 105 goals and 97 points to beat Chelsea's hitherto records of 30 wins, 103 goals and 95 points.

bagged a hat-trick of assists for City as Danilo opened the scoring before showed why replacing the Chilean with Ederson in goal has been a major factor in City's upturn this season.

Bravo was caught in no-man's land as he rushed from his goal to try and clear but allowed to cross for to head into an unguarded goal.

However, quickly restored City's lead before Sane again provided the inspiration for Fernandinho to seal a record-breaking three points 18 minutes from time. Arsene Wenger's penultimate game in charge of Arsenal ended in depressingly familiar fashion as the 10-man Gunners were defeated 3-1 at

Arsenal remain the only team in England's top four leagues without a point away from home this year having now lost seven straight games on the road. Kelechi Iheanacho had already fired the Foxes into an early lead before Arsenal were reduced to 10 men when was shown a straight red card for hauling down Iheanacho.

scored his ninth Arsenal goal in just 13 appearances since a club record move from Borussia Dortmund in January to draw the visitors level.

But Arsenal were left ruing another refereeing decision as Demarai Gray tumbled inside the area and rifled home the resulting penalty before added a late third for

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First Published: Thu, May 10 2018. 09:50 IST