A late goal from Luis Fernandinho saw Manchester City sneak a goal ahead of Aston Villa in this evening's Premier League fixture. Final score at the Ethiad was 3-2, putting City a single point ahead of Arsenal for now.

Earlier, Liverpool's hopes of Champions League football suffered a crushing blow with a scoreless draw away to West Brom.

Leicester climbed out of the bottom three with a 1-nil win at fellow strugglers, Burnley.

Hull did their fight against the drop the power of good with a 2-nil win at Crystal Palace.

QPR stay second bottom after Charlie Austin missed a penalty in their scoreless draw with West Ham.

Sunderland drop into the bottom three following their 1-all draw at Stoke.

Newcastle suffered a seventh straight defeat with a 3-2 loss at home to Swansea.

In the lunchtime game, Southampton and Tottenham played out a 2-2 draw.

Finally, Watford will be playing Premier League football next season, after they won 2-nil at Brighton and other results went their way.

Full-time scores

Southampton 2-2 Tottenham 

(S: Pelle 29', 65' // T: Lamela 43', Chadli 70')

Burnley 0-1 Leicester 

(L: Vardy 60')

Crystal Palace 0-2 Hull 

(H: N'Doye 51', 90' + 1')  

Newcastle 2-3 Swansea 

(N: Perez 20', De Jong 87' // S: Oliveira 45' + 1', Sigurdsson 49', Cork 71')

QPR 0-0 West Ham 

Stoke 1-1 Sunderland 

(Sto: Adam 27' // Sun: Wickham 2')

West Brom 0-0 Liverpool 

Manchester City 3-2 Aston Villa 

(MC: Aguero 3', Kolarov 66', Fernandinho 89' // AV: Cleverley 68', Sanchez 85')