Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s reaction:

Ashley Young looks and sounds very despondent. “I can’t put a finger on it,” he says of United’s problems. “It’s a massive blow [not to be in the Champions League].”

I leave you with Paul Wilson’s match report from Huddersfield. Enjoy that, stick around for Arsenal-Brighton, and I’ll see you again very soon!

That was a nice send-off for Huddersfield though, and for Hoyle. They looked abject at the start but soon realised United aren’t compelled to keep on keeping on, and were well worth the point. They have fine support and should be a threat in the second tier next season, although you’d think Mooy and perhaps Kongolo will be eyed by bigger clubs.

Oh, and Chelsea won 3-0 if there remained any doubt about that. It’s between them, Spurs and Arsenal for places three and four. You can see if Arsenal can indeed stay in the fight now with Will Unwin’s MBM of their game with Brighton:

Is there a single member of this United side – or even squad – whose presence screams “IF YOU KEEP ME NEXT SEASON WE CAN MAKE EVERYTHING OK”?

90+8 min: Rashford hits one crisply from the left side of the box but Lossl is down well to smother. That could be that.

90+7 min: Pogba breaks but gives the ball away. United win it back and Chong finds Dalot, but Smith deflects his attempted cross away.

90+5 min: Herrera tees up a volley but then dribbles it into Lossl’s arms. Time is running out now.

90+4 min: Pogba shoots, slips and the result is certainly not respectable. Solskjaer sits impassively, then leaps to his feet. Lossl takes an age over the goal kick and is booked. Neville laments, quite rightly, how United simply let this game drift for an hour.

90+3 min: United have five minutes to be in with a shout of keeping their season respectable ...

90+1 min: Huddersfield bring on Diakhaby for the scorer, Mbenza, whose goal was his first of the season. We will see EIGHT added minutes here.

89 min: Chong could win it! He looks well offside as Rashford slides him through – and a replay shows he indeed was – and drives into the box before Lossl tips his angled shot away. Then Pogba clatters one against the bar from 18 yards moments later! It’s the second time he’s hit the frame! And *then* Huddersfield break and De Gea saves again with his legs from Grant. Suddenly it’s all happening at the death!

87 min: Still, United will have some big social media engagement figures after this. And that is what counts!

86 min: This has been so unbelievably – yet so very believably – bad from United since those first 20 minutes. These players just coast, don’t they? Where’s the energy, the fire, the resolve, the determination? These are intangibles but no successful team does without them.

83 min: Dalot replaces Lindelof. The Swede, who has played better than most of his teammates, heads down the tunnel so presumably has a knock. Ashley Young is now playing at centre-back for Manchester United.

82 min: Lossl beats away a cross-shot from Rashford. United need to build a head of steam now-ish.

80 min: But it’s Mbenza streaking away again on the right to win a corner off Jones. Lowe swings it in ... and United just about clear at the second time of asking.

79 min: It has to be a grandstand last 15 minutes or so from United now, and ultimately a win, otherwise their top-four hopes are mathematically done. Will they deign to make it exciting?

77 min: McTominay gets up groggily. It’s one of those where you just have to trust the medics to do the right thing. They’ve deemed he can continue, so he does – and the game does too.

76 min: McTominay is caught by Lossl as the keeper punches away, and seems to have a head injury. The physio comes on ...

74 min: It’s now Chelsea 3-0 Watford. Higuain has got the third.

73 min: Now Mata squares and Rashford, on the stretch, can’t get the ball on target. Have United’s players realised the gravity of the situation at last?

72 min: “Lifelong United fan here, I went to the same school as Geordie Best,” writes Philip Brennan just as Phil Jones misses a *sitter*, jabbing a low Young free kick over when totally unmarked. “I just punched the air and cheered when Huddersfield scored. I’m going back to watching Glentoran.”

I think a few people might sympathise with that. United need to remember they are a football club, double-quick.

70 min: “We’re going down!” chant the home fans. They could yet go down with a win here. United are all over the show; it’s as joyless from them as usual.

69 min: “I’d actually have more of an opinion on Woodward if he backtracked on Solskjaer and said ‘enough is enough’ and broke the bank for a top tier relevant manager. Otherwise is could be another few years and millions being wasted,” writes Paul Fitzgerald.

I just think it’s hard to have a firm view on Solskjaer at the moment. They probably firmed the appointment up too quickly but, as for his own ability to turn things around, we must remember he has inherited an absolute rabble.

66 min: It’s taking two groundstaff to assemble a corner flag at the moment. It’s not going superbly but would you have a steady hand with 24,500 people making merry around you? Now we do restart after a six-minute delay.

65 min: We are still waiting to get underway as a new flagpole is constructed. A farce that matches United’s season well. What do they have left here? They seemed to have improved a little since Herrera and Chong came on, moving the ball more slickly, but you can’t say they have not courted this.

63 min: Lossl gets an assist there, and it’s atonement for that earlier blooper. The game is delayed while we get a new corner flag – I think a jubilant Mbenza smashed it in celebrating! Meanwhile Neville murmurs: “There’s nothing to like about this United team at all. Just awful.”

60 min: Shaw wins a corner although he could maybe have picked out Chong sooner at the far post. McTominay’s downwards header is saved easily – and then ...

57 min: Then Pogba puts a better effort over from 20 yards. There are goals here if they do want them.

56 min: Ander Herrera, who replaced Matic a couple of minutes back, blasts a quite in-keeping shot well off target.

55 min: Gary Neville is going into one of his quite delicious rants about United’s lack of character, spirit, commitment. Can’t say he is wrong. A bright start here has turned into absolute nothingness, let’s be honest, and we’ve seen this film before. Tahith Chong might fancy this, though, as the youth product replaces a limping Sanchez. Will we see the Chilean in a United shirt again? I doubt it.

52 min: Huddersfield are testing United with balls over the top. They look a bit wobbly and Grant, cutting onto his left foot, curls just over the bar! No intensity from United at all at present.

50 min: David Luiz has very quickly made that 2-0. So Chelsea are heading third, and if it stayed like this United would be two points behind fourth-placed Spurs going into the final day.

49 min: Bad news for United, though, as Ruben Loftus-Cheek has turned the boos into cheers at Stamford Bridge. It’s Chelsea 1-0 Watford.

47 min: Shaw fizzes one well wide after a half-clearance from Hogg. United start on top.

A Huddersfield change at the break: Smith replaces the injured Durm.

Dean Hoyle has been addressing the Terriers fans at the break. “All I am is custodian of fans’ dreams. I’ve done my bit and now it’s for somebody else to carry the weight of expectation.”

He gets one heck of an ovation, and it’s so well deserved.

Chelsea are drawing 0-0 with Watford. By all accounts they were booed off at the break. United couldn’t be the team that find a semblance of form and snatches fourth ... could they?

45+1 min: Rashford takes a blow to the head but, after some treatment, is deemed fine to continue.

44 min: Lindelof heads another Pritchard delivery from the right away. The hosts are getting joy down there ands Lindelof is having a superb half.

43 min: Siewert gets, I’d say, disproportionately unhappy about then non-award of a throw to Huddersfield, stalking outside his technical area and offering some choice words to somebody.

42 min: Pogba hits the bar! Mata loops a fine cross in and Pogba, twisting with the ball just behind him, arcs a superb header against the frame. It dribbles back off a home defender but is grabbed before it can roll across the line.

39 min: Lindelof, again, is in there in the nick of time to stop Mbenza converting a Pritchard centre. Then Jones gives away possession and it’s worked through to Grant, who is denied by a big De Gea save with his feet! United have dozed off here, big time. It happens so often.

37 min: Mata overcooks a through pass for Rashford, who is beaten to the ball by Lossl. United could do with a second goal.

36 min: It’s a good spell for the Terriers, for sure, and Lindelof does well again to stop a neat Pritchard pass sending Bacuna away.

34 min: Jones is rightly booked for taking Hogg out on the right byline. Hogg had, errrm, roasted him. Another chance for some home pressure, but McTominay lumps Mooy’s delivery away.

31 min: Now Huddersfield, who have come into this slightly, win a free-kick 30 yards out and Bacuna’s strike snicks wide off a red shirt. The corner comes to nothing but this resembles a contest now, albeit not an absorbing one.

29 min: Huddersfield put a nice little move together and Grant, in space on the right of the box, sees his cross defended bravely by Lindelof.

28 min: The bulletins from Chelsea, where it is goalless, suggest Watford are well on top and Kante has gone off injured. Hope growing for United?

26 min: Sanchez, who is playing well enough, chips towards an unmarked Pogba at the far post but it’s at an awkward height and the midfielder can do little more than keep the ball alive for a second or two before Lossl pounces.

25 min: At the other end Mata, getting on the end of a lovely United move, measures one towards the far corner but it doesn’t fade enough and a decent chance goes begging.

24 min: And now they have a shot, Mata giving away possession with a loose touch and Bacuna, who has better passing options, shooting a yard wide from 20 yards. De Gea was never too worried.

22 min: Huddersfield have their first attack – yes, really – but it comes to very little as Durm’s low cross is easily ushered away.

20 min: United, who are dominant to a ludicrous degree, win consecutive corners but Young swings the second one out of play. They’ve been wasteful with set pieces so far, although I can’t imagine they’ll be short of further opportunities to threaten.

18 min: Hogg, who likes a challenge, is punished for a heavy one on Pogba, before Kongolo slides in at the other end to prevent a United opening.

17 min: Corner to United. They could and should win this by a hatful, I think we can say that already. But not with crosses like the one Mata just provided.

15 min: Lee Mason, yer ref, awards United a free-kick much closer in now after Rashford is hauled over. Now this could be a chance for Mata. It is he who has a go, but the ball ends up floated into the wall.

12 min: Young aims a deep corner and Lindelof, about 14 yards out, looks absolutely stunned to be allowed to control it on his chest with nobody near him. Huddersfield end up winning a free-kick but their defending so far has been rank bad.

11 min: A half-chance for number two, Sanchez showing some of his old tenacity to win possession on the left byline and centre for Rashford at the near post, but Kongolo is in very smartly to stop him converting.

10 min: That was McTominay’s second goal for United. They may as well try for a few more now if they’re going to come as cheaply as that one.

6 min: Sanchez is clipped by Schindler and it’s a United free-kick, a little further out than ideal shooting range although Huddersfield form a three-man wall. Rashford has a pop but it bounces harmlessly through to Lossl.

4 min: There’ll be an eye or two on Chelsea’s fortunes against Watford. I’ll try and keep you informed. Nothing at all has happened here yet.

2 min: A slow start, but a very noisy stadium that seems intent on giving Huddersfield and Hoyle a lively farewell.

And the teams are out on the pitch here! It seems a bright, perky atmosphere, all things considered – so let’s hope that points to a fun afternoon in general.

Don’t forget you can keep on top of the Championship’s last knockings here with Daniel Harris. The play-off and title races are going to the wire!

They’ll be trotting out in a few minutes. United’s season – what’s left of it anyway – is right on the line here. Remember, realistically they have to win and preferably score a few, too ...

There you go ...

Huddersfield benefit from the return of Aaron Mooy, who missed the defeat at Liverpool. That was their 21st loss in 23 league games, a staggeringly bad record. It just hasn’t worked yet under Jan Siewert although he didn’t inherit a straightforward situation.

“Is it also possible the start for Alexis is one of those ‘put him in the showroom so that we can get a decent bit for him in the summer’ things?” ponders Thomas Krantz.

Possibly a bit of that too, yes. Although who’d take him currently? I’d add that the wider surprise over Sanchez’s drop-off ... errrr ... surprises me. It always looked a weird investment, I thought. His game was based so much on incredible reserve of energy, industry and dynamism. He’d also played a tremendous amount of football, year-round, for club and country. When you get to 30, it starts to tell – it’s not rocket science! I think we’re just seeing a player who is burnt out.

That start for Alexis Sanchez is his first for two months – the home win over Southampton was his last. A chance to salvage his United career from the dead? Or more of a sign that the likes of Lukaku and Martial are not much longer for Old Trafford?