This season's Saints are now up to 12 points to ensure Derby County's record low from the 2007-08 season remains intact for at least another year. City could have moved level on points with second-placed Arsenal with a win but served up a dismal attacking display a week before their FA Cup final against Crystal Palace. They stay in third place but the dropped points on the south coast could prove costly in a tight race for a top-five finish and a place in the Champions League next season. Erling Haaland returned from injury but offered little as Pep Guardiola's side were content to play at walking pace against an admittedly packed Southampton defence, and looked devoid of ideas for most of the game. Defender Manuel Akanji headed wide from a corner and Bernardo Silva saw a shot hacked off the line by Saints captain Jack Stephens. Saints goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale was only called into serious action inside the last few minutes, clawing away a header from Ruben Dias before Omar Marmoush rattled the crossbar from long range. But there were cheers from the stoic home crowd at the whistle as the hosts held on for just a third clean sheet all season.

Manchester United and Tottenham will meet in an all-English Europa League final on 21 May. Ruben Amorim's United saw off Spanish side Athletic Bilbao 7-1 on aggregate in their semi-final to progress, while Spurs got the better of Norwegians Bodo/Glimt 5-1 on aggregate. United are looking to win the Europa League for the second time in eight years, while Tottenham are bidding to end a 41-year wait for European success. It is the sixth all-English final in any major European competition - with half of them involving Spurs. Tottenham are looking to win a first trophy of any kind in 17 years and they will fancy themselves as favourites for the game in Bilbao, having beaten United three times already this season. Spurs won 3-0 at Old Trafford and 1-0 at home in the Premier League and also triumphed 4-3 in the League Cup. "If you think in the odds it's hard for the club to lose four times in a row," United boss Ruben Amorim said. "We can think that way." Former Tottenham midfielder Glenn Hoddle agreed that it would be difficult for Spurs to win again. "To beat a team four times also from the Premier League in one season is really tough," Hoddle said on TNT Sports. He added: "It will be a titanic battle. Spurs have had the upper hand at the moment but United will be looking for revenge." United last won the Europa League in 2016-17, when Jose Mourinho was manager. They lost the Europa League final 11-10 on penalties to Villarreal in 2021 when David de Gea missed his spot kick for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side. Despite United's poor season domestically, ex-Red Devils midfielder Paul Scholes is confident his former side will rise to the occasion in the final. He said: "For some reason, the history of this club is almost like Real Madrid at times - when they aren't playing that well they can still go on and win European cups. "Manchester United's history tells me they will win it, they know how to win trophies, Tottenham don't."

Having claimed a narrow 2-1 win in the first leg in Seville, Manuel Pellegrini's side fought back from a goal down on the night to make it 2-2 and eliminate two-time finalists Fiorentina 4-3 on aggregate in Italy. The winning moment came via a swift counter attack as Antony dashed down the right wing before laying a perfect assist into the path of Ezzalzouli to power a shot past a helpless David de Gea. For on loan Manchester United forward Antony it was his second significant involvement of the night, having opened the scoring with a wonderful, arcing free kick after 30 minutes. The hosts, aiming to reach a third successive Conference League final, were then given renewed hope by a Robin Gosens double at the end of the first half. The midfielder twice stole a march at the front post to convert a pair of headers. He glanced the first across goal and into the far corner, before powering the next high into the roof of the net with Fran Vieites rooted to level on aggregate. However they tired as the match wore on, eventually being undone in extra time by a moment of quality on the counter. Isco could then have further consolidated Betis' aggregate lead but blazed over from the edge of the box. Nevertheless the Spanish side held out under one last siege from Fiorentina to book their place in the final. They will go head to head with Chelsea for the trophy at Stadion Wrocław on Wednesday 28 May, after Enzo Maresca's side dispatched Swedish outfit Djurgarden 1-0 at Stamford Bridge to advance 5-1 on aggregate.

Despite 10 changes from Sunday's win over Premier League champions Liverpool and handing a first senior start for 16-year-old Reggie Walsh, the Blues hardly broke a sweat to complete a 5-1 aggregate victory against the visitors. In the title clash to be played in the Polish city of Wroclaw on 28 May, they will meet Manuel Pellegrini's Betis, who beat Fiorentina 4-3 on aggregate after extra-time in the other last-four contest. Having won the first leg in Sweden 4-1 last week, Enzo Maresca's side increased their advantage when Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall picked out the bottom corner from just inside the box after played through by Tyrique George. The travelling Djurgarden fans were at the top of their lungs all night but the hosts closed out the narrow second-leg victory and reached the final of Europe's third-tier club competition after bringing on Shim Mheuka and Genesis Antwi, both 17, in the second half. It will be the eighth European final in Chelsea's history and a first since beating Manchester City 1-0 to win the Champions League in 2021 under Thomas Tuchel. And for their current boss Maresca, it will be a chance to secure a first trophy - not only of his Blues reign but also the club's during the post-Roman Abramovich era.

Ange Postecoglou's men navigated a tricky semi-final second leg in Norway to reach their sixth European final - and first since the 2019 Champions League final. Dominic Solanke and Pedro Porro struck in the second half to seal a 5-1 aggregate success and confirm an all-English showdown with United in Bilbao on 21 May. Spurs' trophy drought stretches to a League Cup triumph in 2008, but further back to 1984 in Europe when they won the Uefa Cup. Postecoglou's bold statement in September that he always wins silverware in his second season at a club had been met with mockery at times this term, with Tottenham 16th in the Premier League. Yet they are now one game away from ending their barren spell to prove the Australian right, despite their abject domestic season. They succeeded without the injured James Maddison, Lucas Bergvall and Heung-min Son in what was a historic game for the hosts, who had never reached a European semi-final before. The 3-1 home first-leg win last week gave Spurs a cushion and they managed the return expertly, limiting energetic Bodo to few opportunities on the artificial pitch. The hosts, who knocked out Lazio in the quarter-final and beat Porto at home, needed an early goal but it never came, with Guglielmo Vicario turning away Patrick Berg's free kick. A textbook tight opening half gave way to a controlled second as fears Tottenham would freeze in the Arctic Circle proved unfounded. Full-back Destiny Udogie thwarted Kasper Hogh, but Solanke put the tie further out of reach after 63 minutes when he poked in from close range from a Cristian Romero knockdown. Six minutes later Porro's looping cross dropped in off the post to end any Bodo hopes, with the Norwegian side having an injury-time penalty overturned by the video assistant referee (VAR).