Sunderland 3-2 Chelsea, Aston Villa 0-0 Newcastle: Barclays Premier League - as it happened

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And what a shocking collapse from West Ham, thumped by a Swansea team that showed six changes from the side who beat Liverpool last weekend. That result leaves them sixth, five points behind fourth-place Manchester City. Bilic will be seething.

"We are staying up" is the chant that rings around the Stadium of Light. An extraordinary display of guts and courage from Sunderland, who record their first home win over Chelsea in 16 years to leapfrog Newcastle and out of the relegation zone.

But what an opportunity missed for the Magpies. They would have been very confident of continuing their recent resurgence against a team already condemned to the drop in Villa but failed to gather any momentum and now sit one point behind their fiercest rivals, who could confirm their Premier League status for another year with a game in hand at home to Everton in midweek.

The table now makes grim reading for Norwich, who are four points adrift of safety but are also in action on Wednesday against Watford. Newcastle host Tottenham on the final day.

Full-time

Sunderland 3-2 Chelsea

Aston Villa 0-0 Newcastle

Bournemouth 1-1 West Brom

Crystal Palace 2-1 Stoke

West Ham 1-4 Swansea

A final deflected effort from Traore is easily held by Mannone. The final whistle blows.

That should be it for Chelsea's hopes of a point. Terry commits to a rash challenge on Khazri and is shown a second yellow card that will rule him out of the final two games of the season. A disappointing end to his long tenure with the club.

Red card: John Terry (Chelsea)

Goal: West Ham 1-4 Swansea (Bafetimbi Gomis)

Traore steps inside Van Aanholt and produces a tame low cross to the near post that is quickly smothered by Mannone. Borini then sends an ambitious shot miles wide, much to the annoyance of Allardyce.

O'Shea concedes a free-kick in a dangerous position by coming through the back of Costa. Fabregas looks to test Mannone but his effort hits the wall and Matic cannot keep the attack alive.

Groans around the Stadium of Light as the fourth official's board shows a minimum of five minutes additional time. Can they hold on?

Terry is booked for a clear foul on Defoe. M'Vila and Kaboul stand over the free-kick, only for the latter to see a powerful drive blocked by Fabregas after being shown a yellow card for complaining about the Spaniard's lack of distance.

Substitute Larsson also has his name taken for halting Chelsea's attempts at launching a swift counter attack.

Bertrand Traore comes on for Chelsea, replacing Mikel. Hiddink has no more changes left to make, which rather raises more questions regarding the pointlessness of Pato's inclusion.

Goal: Bournemouth 1-1 West Brom (Matt Ritchie)

Hiddink hooks Willian and throws on fellow Brazilian Oscar in search of an equaliser. Just over 10 minutes plus stoppage time left to play.

We should mention that Allardyce made his final change in that aftermath of that third goal, withdrawing Cattermole and introducing Sebastian Larsson.

Clever movement from Costa to draw a foul from Younes Kaboul on the edge of Sunderland's box. Willian flights a free-kick on goal that is tipped over by the fingertips of Mannone.

Ivanovic has been replaced by Baba Rahman.

Goal: West Ham 1-3 Swansea (Diafra Sakho)

Goal: Crystal Palace 2-1 Stoke (Dwight Gayle)

What a thrilling contest this is and what a huge goal that could be in the context of Sunderland's bid to avoid a first return to the Championship since 2007. It's great play from Tottenham loanee Yedlin, who easily skips beyond his marker before seeing a cross deflected by John Obi Mikel into the path of Defoe.

The former England striker takes an excellent first touch before rifling home. Dramatic scenes at the Stadium of Light.

Goal: Sunderland 3-2 Chelsea (Jermain Defoe)

Jubilation on Wearside as Sunderland equalise once more. After seeing an initial cross cleared by Azpilicueta, Patrick van Aanholt pulls the ball back for Borini on the edge of the penalty area. He takes one touch and produces a low right-footed shot that takes a slight deflection off Terry's inside leg before squirming past Courtois.

Chelsea wanted the ball to be kicked out of play in order for Ivanovic to receive treatment.

Goal: Sunderland 2-2 Chelsea (Fabio Borini)

A second roll of the dice from Allardyce now. Duncan Watmore runs on in place of Kirchhoff.

Ironic cheers from the away supporters greet a wild slice from Cattermole that flies well over the crossbar after Khazri's corner was punched away from danger by Courtois.

Hazard and Fabregas combine to set up Costa, who takes a touch and is too slow in getting his shot away. Mannone comes out to block with his chest.

Sunderland win a corner when Borini's return pass towards Khazri is turned behind. The latter's near-post delivery is sent harmlessly wide by Kirchhoff.

Cattermole is deservedly booked for a painful lunge on Hazard after the Belgian, who will need treatment, had turned very nicely and was looking to set off ahead of steam.

A first substitution of the afternoon from Sunderland as Kone is replaced by John O'Shea. The Ivorian centre-back picked up a knock while blocking Fabregas' cross in the first half.

Gayle equalises for Palace after good work from Yannick Bolasie. West Ham's faint hopes of nicking a top-four place look to be over as Ki volleys home Barrow's cross.

Goal: West Ham 0-3 Swansea (Ki Sung-yueng)

Goal: Crystal Palace 1-1 Stoke (Dwight Gayle)

End-to-end stuff now at the Stadium of Light. Costa shoots straight at Mannone before Defoe powers an effort into Cahill.

A slip from Willian allows Jan Kirchhoff to fire a shot, but it is immediately blocked by Terry. Yann M'Vila then floats a dangerous cross towards the back post that is just too hard for Defoe.

No changes from either Allardyce or Hiddink at the break. At Villa Park, Jack Colback wastes a glorious opportunity to put Newcastle in front.

The second halves are off and running. An important 45 minutes in the race for Premier League survival beckons.

In a bizarre quirk of fate, Aston Villa are the only home team not losing at half-time. A surprisingly listless performance thus far from Newcastle, who could move four points clear of the relegation zone tonight if Sunderland are unable to reverse the deficit against Chelsea.

Half-time

Sunderland 1-2 Chelsea

Aston Villa 0-0 Newcastle

Bournemouth 0-1 West Brom

Crystal Palace 0-1 Stoke

West Ham 0-2 Swansea

Just as Chelsea appeared to be backed up against the ropes, they spring forward and restore their advantage on the stroke of half-time. Bursting forward from midfield, Matic collects a cushioned header from Azpilicueta before slotting beyond Mannone.

Goal: Sunderland 1-2 Chelsea (Nemanja Matic)

A chance for West Brom to reinforce their lead at Bournemouth is spurned. Artur Boruc is the hero for the hosts, saving a penalty from Craig Gardner after Tommy Elphick had fouled Craig Dawson at a corner.

Chelsea are looking extremely wobbly now and Courtois makes a hash of his clearance and watches it sail out play. Sunderland will not want the half-time whistle to come.

Three minutes of added time signalled. Sunderland have a free-kick in a good area wide on the right but Khazri's pacy delivery is headed away.

Sunderland draw level and what an absolute stunner it is from Khazri. As Chelsea look to clear a free-kick, Cahill heads high into the air and the Tunisian midfielder, who arrived in English football from Bordeaux in January, arrows an unstoppable volley past Courtois.

Goal: Sunderland 1-1 Chelsea (Wahbi Khazri)

Another painful blow for Borini as he elects not to compete in the air with Costa and receives an accidental elbow to the head for his troubles.

We've had a slight delay at the Stadium of Light, where both John Terry and Borini have required physio treatment after an awkward aerial collision that featured two heavy falls.

It looks like both players will be able to continue, but the Italian certainly seems to have come off worse.

What were we saying about away sides? Before we have even had chance to mention Swansea's opener, they go 2-0 to the good at West Ham. Routledge knocks home from a Naughton cross and Ayew scores for the 11th time this season. Young Kingsley provided the delivery for his strike.

Goal: West Ham 0-2 Swansea (Andre Ayew)

Goal: West Ham 0-1 Swansea (Wayne Routledge)

Khazri's enticing delivery is cleared before Defoe is sent through by a nice low pass from Cattermole, but is caught narrowly offside again as he goes to chip Courtois.

Chelsea come extremely close to doubling their advantage, but the stretching Costa is just unable to make contact with a fabulous right-wing cross from Ivanovic that whips across the edge of the six-yard-box.

It's been a positive afternoon for away teams so far and Stoke are the latest to take the lead. Adam is the man who has scored, beating Wayne Hennessey after being teed up by Marko Arnautovic.

Goal: Crystal Palace 0-1 Stoke (Charlie Adam)

Sunderland are really applying pressure now and Courtois is called into action to save Yedlin's back-post header after the United States international had been picked out by Defoe.

Muted appeals for a Sunderland penalty are waved away by referee Mike Jones after Cahill's attempted clearance inadvertently hits the hand of Branislav Ivanovic from close range. A better first touch from Fabio Borini and he may have been through on goal.

Back on Wearside, Lee Cattermole sends a deep right-footed cross into the Chelsea box. Defoe peels off the back of Cahill to head against the base of the post, but is flagged for offside. That looked a very tight call.

The Baggies break the deadlock at Bournemouth, Rondon heading home a left-wing cross from Jonny Evans. That was West Brom's 400th goal in the Premier League.

Goal: Bournemouth 0-1 West Brom (Salomon Rondon)

Desperately unlucky for Sunderland as Cahill's attempted pass towards Costa takes a cruel deflection off DeAndre Yedlin into the striker's path. He gratefully accepts the invitation and curls low beyond Mannone from a tight angle.

Goal: Sunderland 0-1 Chelsea (Diego Costa)

Chelsea maintain possession on the edge of the Sunderland penalty area. The Black Cats look to have plenty of red and white shirts on hand to snuff out any danger, but they are split as Cesc Fabregas makes a little run in behind and receives possession from Hazard.

The Spaniard then produces a low cross that is deflected behind by a sliding Lamine Kone, who looks to have hurt himself in the process.

The first opportunity of the afternoon falls to Chelsea as Hazard plays a neat one-two with Cesar Azpilicueta before rampaging down the left flank. He eventually pulls the ball back for Willian, who rather scuffs a tame effort into the hands of Mannone.

Sunderland probe patiently for an opening, no doubt looking to target Cahill, who has 85 minutes remaining to avoid receiving a second yellow.

At the other end, Willian looks to set Costa away with a long ball over the top but Vito Mannone comes off his line to collect. He came perilously close to leaving his area there.

A very hairy start indeed for Chelsea as Fabregas concedes possession in a dangerous area and Gary Cahill hauls down Defoe as he looks to take advantage. The centre-back is immediately cautioned and Wahbi Khazri's free-kick is hit straight into the wall.

We are underway across the grounds.

It's full-time at Carrow Road, where Norwich's hopes of staying up have been dealt a further blow courtesy of a 1-0 defeat to Manchester United. Juan Mata notched the only goal 18 minutes from time in a dreadful spectacle.

To reiterate, that result keeps Alex Neil's side 19th, one point behind Sunderland and two adrift of Newcastle.

For West Ham, injured goalkeeper Adrian makes way for deputy Darren Randolph. Victor Moses also comes in for Diafra Sakho. Swansea skipper Ashley Williams is rested and misses his first game of the season, while Neil Taylor, Gylfi Sigurdsson and Jefferson Montero are also sidelined.

Kyle Naughton, Stephen Kingsley, Federico Fernandez, Ki Sung-yueng, Leroy Fer and Modou Barrow all start.

10 minutes remaining until this afternoon's fixtures get underway.

Crystal Palace captain Mile Jedinak has failed to recover from a knock, so Dwight Gayle starts instead. Stoke name an unchanged team, although Marc Muniesa drops off the bench to be replaced by Stephen Ireland.

Four changes from Bournemouth, who bring in Junior Stanislas, Max Gradel, Lewis Grabban and Benik Afobe for Matt Ritchie, Marc Pugh, Josh King and Callum Wilson. West Brom name the same XI that were soundly beaten by West Ham at The Hawthorns last weekend.

Newcastle are also unchanged following their victory over Crystal Palace, although Daryl Janmaat is back on the bench in place of Kevin Mbabu. Villa replace the suspended Aly Cissokho with Carlos Sanchez and swap Rudy Gestede for Scott Sinclair.

West Ham vs Swansea

West Ham: Randolph, Antonio, Cresswell, Reid, Ogbonna, Noble, Kouyate, Moses, Lanzini, Payet, Carroll

Subs: Spiegel, Tomkins, Collins, Obiang, Valencia, Sakho, Emenike

Swansea: Fabianski, Naughton, Kingsley, Fernandez, Amat, Ki, Fer, Cork, Routledge, Barrow, Ayew

Subs: Nordfeldt, Rangel, Britton, Fulton, Gorre, Emnes, Gomis

Crystal Palace vs Stoke

Crystal Palace: Hennessey, Ward, Dann, Delaney, Souare, Bolasie, Puncheon, Cabaye, McArthur, Gayle, Wickham

Subs: Speroni, Kelly, Ledley, Mutch, Sako, Campbell, Adebayor

Stoke: Haugaard, Bardsley, Cameron, Shawcross, Pieters, Whelan, Imbula, Shaqiri, Adam, Arnautovic, Crouch

Subs: Bachmann, Wollscheid, Ireland, Walters, Joselu, Bojan, Diouf

Bournemouth vs West Brom

Bournemouth: Boruc, Francis, Elphick, Cook, Daniels, Stanislas, Arter, Surman, Gradel, Grabban, Afobe

Subs: Federici, O'Kane, Gosling, Iturbe, Ritchie, King, Wilson

West Brom: Foster, Olsson, McAuley, Evans, Dawson, Gardner, Yacob, Fletcher, McClean,Rondon, Leko

Subs: Myhill, Chester, Sandro, Roberts, Field, Lambert, Berahino

Aston Villa vs Newcastle

Aston Villa: Bunn, Hutton, Clark, Lescott, Toner, Bacuna, Gana, Sanchez, Westwood, Ayew, Sinclair

Subs: Guzan, Richards, Adama, Gil, Hepburn-Murphy, Lyden, Grealish

Newcastle: Darlow, Anita, Mbemba, Lascelles, Dummett, Tiote, Colback,Townsend, Sissoko, Wijnaldum, Cisse

Subs: Woodman, Janmaat, Taylor, Shelvey, De Jong, Perez, Mitrovic

Courtois does come straight back in for Chelsea, with Begovic dropping to the bench and Marco Amelia back in the stands. Hiddink's only other change sees Eden Hazard, who came on at half-time on Monday and scored a wonderful equaliser to end Tottenham's title bid, starting ahead of Pedro.

The Spaniard is not listed as a substitute, but loanee Alexandre Pato is. A surprising lack of youth on display with only Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Kenedy and Bertrand Traore in the matchday squad, but it makes sense that Conte will perhaps want to see what his senior players can do before deciding on what changes to make this summer.

Allardyce sticks with an unchanged starting XI for the fourth game in succession. Jones' place on the bench is taken by Jeremain Lens, who has recovered from a bout of illness.

Sunderland vs Chelsea

Sunderland: Mannone, Yedlin, Van Aanholt , Kaboul, Kone, Kirchhoff, Cattermole, M'Vila, Borini, Khazri, Defoe

Subs: Pickford, O'Shea, Rodwell, Larsson, Lens, Watmore, , N'Doye

Chelsea: Courtois, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta, Mikel, Matic, Willian, Fabregas, Hazard, Diego Costa

Subs: Begovic, Baba Rahman, Loftus-Cheek, Kenedy, Oscar, Traore, Pato

As for Chelsea, Thibaut Courtois is back in contention after serving a two-game suspension following his second red card of the season against Manchester City last month. It remains to be seen if he will replace Asmir Begovic amid rumours of interest from Real Madrid/Paris Saint-Germain and reports of a falling out with long-serving goalkeeping coach Christophe Lollichon.

The only players unavailable to Guus Hiddink today are Kurt Zouma and Loic Remy, who are still recovering from knee and groin injuries respectively.

While we wait for official team news to filter through, we know that Sunderland have only one injury worry to contend with today as right-back Billy Jones continues to struggle with a hip problem.

Sitting ninth and with no chance of pushing for a place in Europe, deposed champions Chelsea have preciously little to play for other than laying down a marker ahead of Antonio Conte's arrival as manager after Euro 2016.

However, they demonstrated an appetite for a battle that has been all too lacking this term against Tottenham Hotspur on Monday night, ruining their rivals' chances of catching Leicester by fighting back from 2-0 down to claim a point in a feisty affair at Stamford Bridge that boiled over numerous times and saw both clubs charged with three separate breaches of failing to control their players.

Spurs midfielder Mousa Dembele was handed a retrospective six-game ban for appearing to gouge the eye of Diego Costa. It was certainly not an evening for the faint-hearted.

Sunderland have put together a three-game unbeaten streak of their own, with a crucial 3-0 drubbing of Norwich followed by a stalemate against Arsenal and a 1-1 draw at Stoke that came courtesy of a 94th-minute Jermain Defoe penalty.

That clipping of the Canaries' wings was their only win in nine, however, with their other two victories in 2016 coming against Aston Villa and Manchester United. A record of 19 defeats in the last 23 meetings with Chelsea is hardly a cause for optimism, either. They have not beaten them at home since October 2000.

Norwich vs Manchester United is goalless heading towards half-time. If that result stays the same, then they will remain 19th and one point adrift of Newcastle ahead of the 15.00 BST kick-offs.

That would bring them level with Sunderland, who boast a better goal difference. The Black Cats also have that advantage over Newcastle, as well as game in hand to come at home to Everton on Wednesday night.

The race to avoid a costly relegation from the Premier League takes centre stage today, with Norwich's home clash against Manchester United followed by Sunderland's attempts to beat Chelsea at the Stadium of Light.

That is our feature game this afternoon at IBTimes UK, although we will also be keeping you fully abreast of events in the West Midlands, where Newcastle, who currently hold their heads narrowly above water after a run of four matches unbeaten under Rafael Benitez, face relegated Aston Villa.

Elsewhere, West Ham play their penultimate game at the Boleyn Ground against Swansea, FA Cup finalists Crystal Palace entertain Stoke and Bournemouth host West Brom. Champions Leicester play Everton in the late kick-off and will lift the trophy after the full-time whistle regardless of result.