Saturday's Premier League results and roundup: Brentford 3-0 West Ham, Newcastle 3-1 Brighton, Wolves 1-1 Sunderland

The Premier League games connected Saturday had a important interaction astatine some ends of the table, with West Ham United's 3-0 decision against Brentford leaving the teams successful 17th and sixth respectively.

Newcastle United brag Eddie Howe relieved immoderate of the unit connected his occupation with a 2-1 triumph against Brighton & Hove Albion astatine home.

Elsewhere, relegated Wolverhampton Wanderers earned a constituent erstwhile they faced Sunderland astatine home, coming backmost from a 1-0 shortage to gully 1-1.

Here, Sports Mole rounds up the afternoon's action.

Brentford 3-0 West Ham United: Disaster for Nuno successful relegation battle

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Brentford moved into the Europa League spot with their 3-0 triumph against West Ham astatine the Gtech Community Stadium connected Saturday.

The Hammers trailed aft a 4th of an hour, when Konstantinos Mavropanos turned into his ain nett aft trying to lunge for the shot and prevent Michael Kayode from scoring himself.

Mavropanos thought helium had made up for his ain extremity little than 10 minutes later, but a VAR involution ruled his header from a escaped footwear retired owed to a constrictive offside offence.

Valentin Castellanos doubly struck the station successful the archetypal half, and those misses proved costly fixed Brentford doubed their pb soon aft the interval acknowledgment to a punishment from Igor Thiago.

Mikkel Damsgaard rounded disconnected a deserved triumph for the Bees with a onslaught 8 minutes from time, curling successful an effort into the bottom-right country from conscionable wrong the box.

The triumph leaves Brentford successful sixth spot with 51 points with 3 games near to play, whereas West Ham are 17th with 36 points, and a Tottenham Hotspur triumph connected Sunday would permission them stranded successful the bottommost three.

Newcastle United 3-1 Brighton & Hove Albion: Eddie Howe relieves pressure

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Brighton dropped retired of the Europa League spot aft Eddie Howe's Newcastle United earned a 3-1 triumph astatine St James' Park.

William Osula headed location from adjacent scope connected the 12th-minute people aft benefitting from a mistake by Brighton shot-stopper Bart Verbruggen, who rushed retired of extremity but failed to instrumentality the shot from winger Jacob Murphy, allowing the attacker to transverse to Osula.

Newcastle's pb was doubled 12 minutes later, erstwhile Dan Burn directed Bruno Guimaraes's country into the close broadside of the net.

Brighton halved their shortage conscionable aft the hr mark, when Jack Hinshelwood finished excellently from the near broadside of the six-yard container pursuing an fantabulous squad move.

Harvey Barnes netted a 3rd for the Toon successful stoppage time, taking the shot past Verbruggen successful the container earlier striking ferociously into the extortion of the net.

Three points leaves Newcastle successful 13th spot with 45 points, whereas Brighton driblet to seventh, with their tally of 50 points 1 less than Brentford.

Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-1 Sunderland: Dan Ballard reddish paper controversy

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Daniel Ballard's reddish paper against Wolverhampton Wanderers contributed importantly to Sunderland's disappointing 1-1 gully astatine Molineux.

In emblematic Premier League fashion, the deadlock was breached aft a country delivery, with Nordi Mukiele rising highest to caput the shot into the near broadside of extremity with conscionable 17 minutes connected the clock.

However, Ballard's dismissal little than 10 minutes aboriginal enactment his squad connected the backfoot, and helium tin person nary complaints aft VAR spotted him pulling Tolu Arokodare's hair.

Wolves were incapable to marque the astir of their antheral vantage until the aboriginal stages of the 2nd half, erstwhile Santiago Bueno nodded location from a country swung successful from the right.

The crippled ended level, but the gully does thing to assistance relegated Wolves, who enactment successful 20th with conscionable 18 points.

As for Sunderland, the play has exceeded supporters' expectations contempt Saturday's result, and fewer would person imagined that the squad would beryllium 12th with 47 points by aft 35 games.