Champions League football returns to Newcastle as draw gives Leicester survival chance

At the end of a magnificent season it was job done for Newcastle United, they will be playing in the Champions League next season, but there is much still to do on the final day for Leicester City.

At least they have given themselves a fighting chance heading into a last game showdown with Everton, who will need to beat Bournemouth at home to be sure of staying up.

If they draw or lose and Leicester City can conjure up a home victory over West Ham, who will have the Europa Conference League final on their minds, Dean Smith will have somehow kept Leicester in the Premier League.

It could have been so much more and the ultimate smash and grab. Leicester had one shot on target and it came in injury time, Timothy Castagne, hooking the ball goalwards only for Newcastle goalkeeper Nick Pope to make a magnificent one-handed save.

Newcastle had been utterly dominant, hitting the post three times. It would have been the ultimate sucker punch, but the England international’s big hand ensured a remarkable season ends with a return to the Champions League after a 20 year absence.

Roma held by Salernitana but Champions League hopes boosted by Juventus penalty

Roma was held at home by

Salernitana to 2-2 in Serie A and still had its hopes of sneaking into the Champions League boosted on Monday.

Salernitana twice took the lead through Antonio Candreva and Boulaye Dia but was twice pegged back by goals from Stephan El

Shaarawy and Nemanja Matić.

Roma was on a five-match winless run and got off to a miserable start at the Stadio Olimpico when Salernitana took the lead in impressive fashion in the 12th minute. Lassana Coulibaly floated a long ball over the top and Candreva sprung the offside trap, waited for it to dip, before sticking his leg out to volley it into the top right corner.

Two minutes after the restart, one of those substitutes, Lorenzo Pellegrini, saw his free kick saved and El Shaarawy fire home the rebound.

Salernitana restored its advantage seven minutes later with another classy finish. Krzysztof Piątek's shot came off Roma defender Chris Smalling and into the path of Dia, who flicked it in with the back of his heel.

Matić — another one of the halftime substitutes — rescued a point for Roma seven minutes from time.