West Bromwich Albion made the most of a lacklustre display by Manchester United, earning a wholly unexpected but fully deserved win in Sunday's Premier League clash at Old Trafford, thus confirming Manchester City's status as Premier League champions.
The Baggies needed to pull off one of the most remarkable upsets in Premier League history to defeat the Red Devils and preserve their rapidly vanishing hopes of avoiding the drop. Yet after a dour first half performance by the home side, this no longer looked like such an unrealistic ambition.
Despite United's attack-orientated starting lineup, with Juan Mata recalled at the expense of Jesse Lingard, neither side showed any great ambition in the early stages of the match, with West Brom content to sit back and let United retain possession.