Pep Guardiola, Anthony Martial, Sam Allardyce: 3 Winners, 3 Losers from the Premier League weekend

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Amongst a slew of surprise results, the Premier League’s penultimate weekend brought the first casualty of relegation. 

In a further surprise, it was 19th-placed Stoke who became the first team to guarantee Championship football, something which perhaps shouldn’t be of any real surprise given the nature of this season’s unpredictable survival scramble.

In a weekend in which Arsène Wenger waved a tearful goodbye to Arsenal’s (at times un-)faithful home crowd, an emaciated Baggies side rose from their basement grave, and the Swans glided with the help of gravity, RealSport take a look at some of the more nuanced winners and losers of the most recent round of games:

Winners