Manchester United confirmed their place in the top four with a 2-0 win at Leicester City, meaning Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side finish third in the Premier League
In a final-day shootout with Brendan Rodgers' side at the King Power Stadium, where the winners would guarantee Champions League football next season, nerves were on show until Bruno Fernandes settled the visitors down from the penalty spot (71) after Anthony Martial was taken down by Jonny Evans and Wes Morgan
The penalty was United's 20th of the season and their 14th in the Premier League - a new record
Evans was shown a red card in injury-time for a dangerous tackle on Scott McTominay before Jesse Lingard broke his duck for the season (90+6) with the final kick of the game, taking advantage of a terrible error from Kasper Schmeichel
Jamie Vardy, who won the Golden Boot with 23 goals, hit the woodwork for the hosts at 0-0 but ultimately their season fizzled out after taking just two points from the last 21 available
Leicester had been in the top four for 298 days until dropping to fifth in midweek as a sharp decline in form since the resumption put paid to their Champions League dream
 It is the Europa League for them
In a game full of tension from the outset, both teams looked leggy after a relentless period of games
Mason Greenwood guided a header over for the visitors as he went searching for his 19th goal of the season as Leicester defended deep to try and quell the threat of United's pace in behind
Kelechi Iheanacho was finding space for Leicester on the counter attack and he scuffed a good opportunity to test David de Gea, who still managed to spill a weak shot, but Vardy was offside so could not take advantage of the fumble
Youri Tielemans rolled a low effort wide before Marcus Rashford curled over after James Justin missed Paul Pogba's pass
Justin was forced into an excellent tackle to halt Martial, whose movement in behind was United's most potent weapon
Leicester were very much in the game, though, and knew a goal would completely turn the complexion of the situation around
 Their chance came just after the hour when Vardy flicked Tielemans' free-kick onto the angle of post and bar
It proved to be Leicester's best chance as, with Leicester pushing a little higher up the pitch, Martial eventually got in behind one too many times
 A perfect ball from the otherwise quiet Fernandes found Martial and a combination of Evans and Morgan took the striker out
Fernandes then rolled in his 10th goal of the season from the spot
Leicester tried to stage a late fightback but the final finish was lacking as Morgan missed his kick when well placed and Demarai Gray firing wide from a tight angle
With the game almost over, Lingard then rubbed salt into the wounds when he tackled a dallying Schmeichel and fired into an empty net
United can celebrate just their third top-four finish in the seven Premier League seasons since Sir Alex Ferguson retired
 Solskjaer has got United moving in the right direction
Man United boss : "It's a massive achievement by the staff and players
 They are incredible
 I had a chat with all of them today saying no matter what happened today we'd had a fantastic season
 We're building a culture
 I'm very pleased and proud of their efforts
 To win this game was massive mentally as we've lost two semi-finals
"Leicester boss : "We finished in the second-highest league position in the club's Premier League history
 It takes us into Europe and I'm really excited by that
"It's that next step for this squad
 We've arrived a bit earlier than what we thought but the boys have had a very good season
 I can't fault their effort and spirit
 Next year it's about ambition, improving the quality and this experience will serve us really well
""It's a big day for Ole
 It will give him some peace
 It demonstrates the progression we have seen in the last few months
 The team are better, they are younger and they can play a different way now than they could at the start of the season
"They were really basic in the sense they just played counter-attack [earlier in the season]
 With Bruno Fernandes and Paul Pogba, and Mason Greenwood emerging, they look like they can play different ways and win different ways
"But when you play the same team, that first eleven, for a week or two, they start to get fatigued
 That demonstrates they need more players in the squad
 The last time Manchester United finished in the top three was under Jose Mourinho and they spent £170m that summer
"United need to invest money again but do it correctly this time
 The squad needs improving, the team needs improving
 First and foremost, they need to improve the first eleven
"United's joint-top scorer this season with 22 goals (17 Premier League) - the best scoring season of his career - was once again in fully motivated mood to make a difference for his team
 It's this consistency within his game that has taken him to the next level this season
 He's become an integral player in the way United attack, as shown by his clever movement throughout the 90 minutes against Evans and Morgan, who always looked petrified of getting turned by the Frenchman
 It was his break in behind and the ability to draw the foul off Evans that was the game-changing moment
 "Absolutely, we're excited by that [Europe]
 We finished in the second-highest league position in the club's Premier League history
 It takes us into Europe and I'm really excited by that
"It's that next step for this squad
 We've arrived a bit earlier than what we thought but the boys have had a very good season
"I can't fault their effort and spirit
 Next year it's about ambition, improving the quality and this experience will serve us really well
": "I believe in what I do and believe in what I've been doing
 We all have different ideas of management and I do it my way
 That's the only way I can do it
 The players bought into it and have taken on board what we've been doing
 I'm not going to say I'm not the man, of course, as I'm in the job
 I believe in what I'm doing
"It's a massive achievement by the staff and players
 They are incredible
 I had a chat with all of them today saying no matter what happened today we'd had a fantastic season
 We're building a culture
 I'm very pleased and proud of their efforts
 To win this game was massive mentally as we've lost two semi-finals
"Manchester United still have a Europa League campaign to negotiate with their second-leg clash with LASK on Wednesday August 5