Nottingham Forest won 2-1 at West Ham to keep alive their hopes of playing in the Champions League for the first time since 1980-81. They must beat Chelsea on the final day of the campaign and hope other results go their way to finish in the top five.

Nuno Espirito Santo's side were gifted the lead in the 11th minute when West Ham keeper Alphonse Areola miscued a pass to Guido Rodriguez inside his own penalty area, and Morgan Gibbs-White slotted into the empty net.

Gibbs-White celebrated by holding up a shirt with Taiwo Awoniyi's name in tribute to the Forest striker, who needed urgent abdominal surgery and was kept unconscious to aid his recovery after being injured against Leicester last weekend.

Nikola Milenkovic doubled Forest's advantage with a close-range finish from Anthony Elanga's 61st-minute free-kick. Jarrod Bowen's 86th-minute strike came too late to deny seventh-placed Forest.

"It's great. Let's enjoy it, it's going to be a good week for us. If we'd thought in the beginning of the season that we'd be playing to play in the Champions League, we'd sign it," Nuno said.

Fulham won 3-2 at west London rivals Brentford to remain in the hunt for a top-eight finish. Raul Jimenez netted for Fulham with a 16th-minute header before Bryan Mbeumo's 19th goal this season hauled the hosts level six minutes later.

Joachim Andersen's foul on Kevin Schade handed a penalty to Brentford, but Bernd Leno saved Mbeumo's spot-kick. Yoane Wissa prodded Brentford ahead in the 43rd minute, but Tom Cairney's 68th-minute equaliser was followed by Harry Wilson's long-range rocket two minutes later.

Elsewhere in the English top flight, Declan Rice scored the only goal at the Emirates in the battle between second and third to guarantee the consolation of a top-five finish for Mikel Arteta's men at the end of another trophyless season.

Defeat means Newcastle still have work to do to join Arsenal in the Champions League next season. Just one point separates them in third from Forest in seventh. Victory over Everton next weekend should be enough for the Magpies due to their much superior goal difference over fifth-placed Villa.

Everton's home since 1892, Goodison Park played host to the club's men's team for the final time before they head to a new 52,000 capacity stadium next season.

Former England captain Wayne Rooney was among the Toffees' former greats in attendance as Iliman Ndiaye produced two fine first-half finishes to ensure there was a happy ending to the Goodison era.

"Extraordinary atmosphere. The crowd were amazing. The job was to win the game and see ourselves out at Goodison in a good light," Everton boss David Moyes said.

Jamie Vardy brought down the curtain on his Leicester career with his 200th goal for the club in Sunday's 2-0 victory against Ipswich.

01 Jul2015	Blackburn Rovers	Fulham	€4M
02 Jan2014	Hull City	Blackburn Rovers	Transfer
01 Jan2014	Blackburn Rovers	Hull City	End of loan
02 Aug2013	Hull City	Blackburn Rovers	Loan
01 Jul2009	Hull U18	Hull City	Free transfer

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