Man Utd will be playing in the Champions League next season after Thursday’s 4-1 win over Chelsea sealed a top-four finish ahead of Liverpool.
Erik ten Hag named an unchanged side as Chelsea arrived at Old Trafford.
The Dutchman stuck with the same team that beat Bournemouth at the weekend and top scorer Marcus Rashford returned to the bench after missing recent games.
Noni Madueke, Mykhailo Mudryk and Carney Chukwuemeka came in for Chelsea as Thiago Silva, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Raheem Sterling dropped out. The latter was absent from the squad entirely due to a hamstring injury.
Shortly after an awful Mudryk miss, Chelsea fell behind at Old Trafford.
Christian Eriksen swung over a free-kick from the left that Casemiro rose to head past a statuesque Kepa Arrizabalaga.
There was a nervous wait as VAR checked for offside, but the Brazilian’s goal was given the green light.
United were forced into a change after Antony went down in agony midway through the first half. The Brazilian left on a stretcher as Rashford came on as replacement.
Chelsea were wasteful and United made it 2-0 in first-half stoppage time.
Casemiro played an exceptional pass to Sancho, who continued to deliver a low ball for Martial to turn in at the back post.
Chelsea were fortunate not to be 3-0 behind within two minutes of the restart.
Victor Lindelof won the ball all too easily and played it to Sancho, who teed up Fernandes to crash the woodwork.
United made it 3-0 in the 73rd minute. Fernandes was caught by a poor Wesley Fofana challenge and stepped up to coolly convert the resulting spot-kick.
Rashford added the fourth in the 79th minute.
Fernandes cut out a slack Fofana pass and teed up the England international after Kepa slowed his initial attempt.
Joao Felix grabbed a consolation goal for the visitors with a fine individual goal.
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