Hull dumped from PL

EPL: Newcastle United managed to secure their place in the English Premier League next season after beating West Ham 2-0 on the final day of the 2014-2015 season. The result effectively relegated Hull City Tigers, who could only muster a 0-0 draw with 10-man Manchester United.

Hull

will be returning to the League Championship (second division) after two seasons in the Premier League.

Meanwhile, Liverpool suffered an embarrassing 6-1 defeat to hosts Stoke City. With Raheem Sterling sidelined, the Reds went five down before the break. Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard bowed out of English football with the consolation goal before Peter Crouch closed his season with a goal six minutes from time.

Chelsea 3 – Sunderland 1

Manchester City 2 – Southampton 0

Everton 0 – Tottenham 1

Valencia claim

last CL spot

La Liga: Valencia returned to European football’s top club competition after edging the now-relegated Almeria 3-2 in a frenetic game at Mediterraneo. After going down 1-0 after nine minutes, Valencia recovered to leave the game delicately poised

on

2-2 at the break. With Sevilla

cruising

against Malaga, Paco Alcacer crucially found the winner by diverting Sofiane Feghouli’s cross into goal 10 minutes from time.

Barcelona ended their season with a 2-2 draw against a defiant Deportivo La Coruna. The result secured Deportivo’s survival, finishing above Eibar on head-to-head. The game was Xavi Hernandez’s last league game for La Blaugrana faithful.

Barca

and was given an emotional send off by the

Real Madrid 7 – Getafe 3

Malaga 2 – Sevilla 3

Eibar 3 – Cordoba 0

Napoli

suffer

CL agony

Juventus look set to finish their league season on a high, overcoming Napoli 3-1 at home. Napoli is out of Champions League contention, set to finish behind Lazio and Roma. With the game level at 1-1, Juve turned on the style and finished off the game through Stefano Sturaro and Simone Pepe.

Serie

A:

Fiorentina

have booked

their name in the Europa League draw after outscoring Palermo 3-2 in Sicily. Following two strong fight backs from Palermo,

wingback

Marcos Alonso scored the all-important goal for Fiorentina on 78 minutes.

Genoa 3 – Inter 2

Cesena 0 – Cagliari 1

Parma 2 – Hellas Verona 2

Dortmund

secure

European football

Bundesliga: After falling into the relegation zone, Borussia Dortmund has accumulated enough points to enter Europa League qualification next season. Dortmund defeated Werder Bremen 3-2 to

seal seventh

place in the league in manager Jurgen Klopp’s final match as Borussia Dortmund manager.

Stuttgart defeated Paderborn 2-1 to effectively dump the latter into Bundesliga 2 and secure their place in the league. After taking the lead on 9 minutes, Paderborn collapsed to fall behind with Daniel Didavi and Daniel Ginczek scoring crucial goals for Stuttgart.

Bayern Munich 2 –

Mainz 0

E. Frankfurt 2 – Bayer Leverkusen 1

Hamburg 2 – Schalke 0