Fulham put a sizeable dent in Tottenham Hotspur's Premier League top-four hopes as in-form Rodrigo Muniz's double earned them an impressive 3-0 victory at Craven Cottage on Saturday.
Tottenham would have moved above Aston Villa into fourth place in the standings with a win but, apart from a brief spell before halftime, were lackadaisical and could have no complaints.
Muniz broke the deadlock in the 42nd minute and scored again just past the hour mark to finish off Tottenham after Sasa Lukic had doubled Fulham's lead shortly after the interval.
It completed a notable home double for Fulham over Tottenham after they also knocked them out of the League Cup and was their first league win against the north Londoners in their last 10 meetings.
Tottenham remain in fifth place with 53 points, six clear of Manchester United in sixth, while Fulham move up to 12th in the table.
Burnley registered their first win in 11 Premier League games as Vincent Kompany's relegation-threatened side defeated 10-man Brentford 2-1 at Turf Moor.
The Clarets took the lead through a 10th-minute Jacob Bruun Larsen penalty given after a foul on Vitinho by Sergio Reguilon, who received a straight red card.
David Datro Fofana, having been guilty of a remarkable miss late in the first half, then doubled the advantage with a finish just past the hour mark.
Kristoffer Ajer pulled a goal back for Brentford with eight minutes of normal time to go but Burnley were able to see out what was their first victory of 2024, and only their fourth in the league this season.
Boss Kompany had emphasised pre-match that he had not given up hope of avoiding relegation and after ending their winless run, the gap between second-bottom Burnley and safety stands at eight points with nine games left to play.
Fifteenth-placed Brentford, meanwhile, are four points above the drop zone as their own sequence without victory extended to a sixth match.
Luton salvaged a critical point in their bid for Premier League survival as substitute Luke Berry struck in the 89th minute to rescue a 1-1 draw against fellow strugglers Nottingham Forest at Kenilworth Road.
Rob Edwards' side were facing slipping six points behind Forest, staring down defeat near the end of a cagey, nervous game that looked to have been settled by Chris Wood’s first-half goal for the visitors, brilliantly set up by Morgan Gibbs-White.
After capitulating when 3-0 up against Bournemouth on Wednesday, Luton were in dire need of a psychological uplift and it duly arrived in the final moments.
Reece Burke headed the ball goalwards from a corner and there responding quickest to lash it home from inside the six-yard box was Berry to keep Forest looking nervously over their shoulder in the table.
Luton had made by far the stronger start. Three times in the opening 15 minutes Ross Barkley tried his luck from range, the first two efforts requiring saves from goalkeeper Matz Sels before a third whistled by his left-hand post.
