London (AFP)

Manchester United made the hole in their pursuit by going to win with a goal from Paul Pogba at Aston villa (3-0), Thursday for the 34th day of the Premier League, as Europe moves away for Tottenham, who made that 0-0 at relegation Bournemouth.

. Manchester in his hand

It took Manchester United just an hour - and a very generous penalty - to close the case against an overwhelmed Villans.

With this success, the race for the Champions League will be limited to the teams classified from 2nd to 5th place, occupied by the Red Devils with 58 points, since the 6th, Wolverhampton is relegated to 6 points 4 days from the end .

With Liverpool already qualified, and Manchester City practically assured of 2nd place, the fight for the last two tickets of C1 will pit Chelsea, 3rd with 60 points, Leicester, 4th with 59, and United.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's men remain on an excellent dynamic of 13 wins and 4 draws over the last 17 games.

They were helped a little by a much criticized decision by the referee, but confirmed by the VAR, awarding them a penalty on an all but obvious fault on Bruno Fernandes.

It was the 13th in the Premier League season for Manchester, which equaled the record for Leicester champion in 2016 and Crystal Palace in the 2004/2005 season.

The Portuguese did himself justice (1-0, 27th) and continues with his maddening statistics: seven goals and five assists in 10 league matches.

The second goal of Mason Greenwood just before the break (45 + 5), a powerful strike close to the post, must, him, nothing to anyone, as the third added by Paul Pogba, on a shot entry from the surface and that was simply his first goal of the season (3-0, 58th).

The French midfielder had not scored for the Red Devils since his double against West Ham on April 13. It was already the 34th day of the Premier League.

. Soporific Tottenham

Tottenham, catastrophic offensively, failed to beat Bournemouth, who had not taken any points since the resumption of the championship, but who regained some hope in the race for maintenance by taking 18th place at Villa, 3 lengths from Watford (17th) and West Ham (16th).

The least we can say is that the Cherries did not really tremble, the Spurs did not frame a shot of the match.

José Mourinho may have thrown at the start of the second act Tanguy Ndombele, with whom it is said to be angry, the offensive encephalogram remained hopelessly flat on the Tottenham side.

The Spurs even touched the correctional when the victorious return of Callum Wilson was finally canceled because the ball had brushed the hand of Joshua King before entering the goal (90th).

In 12 minutes of added time, Hugo Lloris avoided a humiliating defeat to his own by a great outing to repel the stung ball from Harry Wilson who appeared alone in front of him (90 + 6).

But if, mathematically, Europe remains possible, it is difficult to detect, among these Spurs (9th, 49 pts), the spark that would allow them to force destiny.

. Everton and Southampton cancel each other out

In the other match of the early evening, Everton and Southampton we also share the points (1-1), the Brazilian Richarlison answering for the Toffees, just before half time (44th), at the opening of the score for Danny Ings (31st).

In the standings, the two teams retain their 11th and 12th respective places.

But the goal of Danny Ings, his 19th of the season, allows him to climb to 3rd place in the scorer ranking, tied with Mohamed Salah and three units behind the leader, Jamie Vardy (Leicester).

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