That’s all from me. Bye! By way of parting gift, here’s Jamie Jackson’s match report from Old Trafford:

Manchester United again illustrated their Jekyll and Hyde character by rebounding from Sunday’s dismal defeat at Watford with this smooth-geared, canter of a victory.

Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s side even gave Newcastle United the advantage of a goal lead during a dire few first-half minutes before upping quality and control to pull away and display a ruthlessness they sometimes lack.

Much more here:

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is happy:

We’ve done well today. At 1-0 down obviously you’re not sure, but then all season we’ve had one defeat and we haven’t lost the next one, so the reaction was really good. Today was 10-15 minutes of everything going right. Of course we made mistakes. Today was a good day for us. We made it comfortable. Second half I think both teams were looking at the game in two days’ time.

I think we’re moulding the group together. We’re finding our identity. We need to know our identity. We can’t wait until next season. We’re not going to win the league this year, but we need to think about winning trophies this year. Burnley will be a different kind of game, you need to roll your sleeves up and take the fight.

Steve Bruce is not happy.

We’ve had a horrible 20 minutes before half-time, and just after half-time as well, when we’ve made too many mistakes, and one thing about individual error, you can’t account for [it]. You come here, the one thing you can’t do is gift Manchester United and unfortunately, I know it’s Christmas, but we’ve given away more goals in half an hour than we have done in three months.

It’s a harsh lesson for us, but at this level you can’t make the mistakes that we’ve just made, and you get punished. I thought for half an hour were were as good as we get, and then we’ve gifted them. We’ve gifted them a goal to start with, and two or three goals we should be doing better. And all of a sudden the game’s away from you. You can’t go chasing it, otherwise they’ll rip you to bits. They’ve stuck at it in the last half-hour, but it was a difficult afternoon for us.

For half an hour we gave as good as we got, and we’ve made bad mistakes. And at any level when you give bad mistakes away then you get punished, especially when you come here.

It was a strange game. Newcastle started with a predictable but decent plan, and when they took the lead all seemed good. But they created two of the Manchester United goals with terrible defensive passes, the goalkeeper should have kept out the first, and they were all-round abysmal in the second half.

Harry Maguire has a chat.

The first 20 minutes they had a good chance, and then we gave a sloppy goal away. We were too open, too wide as a back four. We learn from it. We showed great mentality to come back into the game after a bad result in our last game, and shows the boys have good spirit. Four great goals. We know we can score goals. We’ve got to make sure our mentality’s right. We’ve been a bit inconsistent this season and that’s something we need to work on. Against Watford we weren’t at it, but the boys showed great intensity today, all through the game, and we deserved the three points.

We’ve now got a big game in two days’ time [at Burnley]. We remain focused. The story of our season up to now is we put in a good performance, and then follow that up with a not so good one. We need to find that consistency. We’ve got to keep pushing, keep working, and make sure our mentality’s right for that one.

Today’s final Premier League game sees the top two face off at the King Power Stadium. Join Barry Glendenning for that one:

90+2 mins: There will be about three minutes of stoppage time, incidentally.

90+1 mins: Manchester United are toying with Newcastle as the game enters stoppage time, passing the ball around the edge of the area, trying to work another opportunity for a hopeless long-range shot. Pogba gives the ball away, but they have it back within a few seconds.

88 mins: Fred is the latest player to put a coin in the shot-from-distance slot machine. His effort is dismal. Goal kick.

88 mins: The final substitution of the game sees Emil Krafth replace Schar.

84 mins: Now Shaw has a shot from distance, which deflects into Dubravka’s arms. This game has really been petering out for half an hour or more and, like a fox in a fence, could do with being put out of its misery.

81 mins: Yedlin is booked for, er, something that happened at some point. The “foul” shown by Amazon to illustrate his booking couldn’t possibly have actually been the cause of it.

80 mins: Chance for Pogba! Mata plays a lovely pass infield from the left wing, and Pogba attempts a difficult first-time left-foot finish as the ball bounces across him and gets nothing on it at all.

79 mins: Save! After all that pointless passing Maguire gets the ball, bursts forward, and has a 30-yard shot that Dubravka tips wide!

78 mins: Man Utd pass the ball about. Newcastle don’t do much to stop them, and the home side don’t seem that bothered about moving it into dangerous areas.

75 mins: Newcastle do a thing! Sean Longstaff nutmegs Fred and then blasts a 35-yarder over the bar.

72 mins: They’re showing off now. Pereira does a spinning backheel flick to Mata, who crosses to Greenwood, who can’t finish.

69 mins: Lingard chips a pass into the area for Mata to run on to. Dubravka reaches it first but forgets how to catch, and for a moment it looks like Mata will get an easy goal before the goalkeeper finally claims it.

68 mins: Martial is off, and Mata is on. Greenwood, presumably, will move infield from the right.

65 mins: Man Utd are in full and complete control of this game, with what suspense their remains surrounding quite how big the scoreline is going to get.

63 mins: Further substitutional news: DeAndre Yedlin replaces Almiron for Newcastle, and Jesse Lingard replaces Rashford for Man Utd.

61 mins: Martial tries to beat Dubravka at his near post again, with a low 20-yarder. This time the post itself gets in the way!

60 mins: Gayle goes off having missed his only decent chance, and Atsu comes on.

59 mins: Rashford is played through. The linesman raises his flag but the referee allows the move to progress. Rashford teases Dubravka for a while, takes his time, waits until the goal is genuinely gaping and then misses it completely. Replays confirm it was indeed offside.

57 mins: Pogba resists the temptation to shoot from long-range, carries the ball forward for 10 yards or so and then caves in to the temptation to shoot. Dubravka makes an easy save, and Martial is a bit annoyed that his run into the area wasn’t rewarded.

57 mins: Schar is back on, and celebrates by thumping a shot well over the goal from way out.

55 mins: It looks like Martial accidentally trod on Schar’s hand as he tried to get to the ball there. The Newcastle defender is bleeding, and in some discomfort. He gets some treatment on the pitch, and then leaves it for a bit more.

53 mins: Pereira tries to play in Martial, rather than the unmarked Greenwood to his right, and Schar covers the Frenchman’s run and cuts out the ball. Newcastle are in danger of letting this get embarrassing.

50 mins: Ooof! The ball rolls to Pogba, 30 yards from goal, and he hits a first-time shot that sets off in the right direction but then curls away.

49 mins: Manchester United appear in full control now. They continue to massively dominate possession, though with this team that isn’t necessarily a positive, while Newcastle struggle to string two passes together.

46 mins: Peeeeep! The second half is happening.

The players come back out, and Pogba will indeed replace McTominay.

Paul Pogba is warming up and presumably coming on at the break. You’d expect McTominay to be the one to make way, given that he was booked after 20 seconds and has repeatedly flirted with disciplinary disaster.

45+2 mins: Joelinton has a shot from wide on the left, which De Gea saves easily.

45+1 mins: Into the first of two additional minutes, and another excellent Wan-Bissaka cross is headed away.

44 mins: Martial spins on the halfway line. To his right two red shirts are moving, and for a while unmarked. But instead of passing to either of them, he runs forward, gets into the penalty area and falls over. The referee is unimpressed.

42 mins: The goal stands! McTominay’s hand had brushed Matty Longstaff’s face, but it certainly wasn’t a foul and you couldn’t possibly classify the result as a head injury.

40 mins: Now Greenwood crosses low from the right, but Martial can’t turn it in. These last few minutes have been full of aggression and attacking intent from the home side.

39 mins: Now United cross from the left, and Lindelof, beyond the far post, hits a wild left-foot volley way high of goal.

38 mins: Rashford is taken out on the left wing, and from the free-kick Pereira curls the ball towards the near post, and Dubravka makes the save!

34 mins: This is a bit of a strange game, full of lulls and longeurs. Pereira gets himself booked for an untidy challenge.

30 mins: Another shot from distance by Manchester United, Pereira this time sending the ball skimming wide.

27 mins: McTominay has his latest attempt at getting a second yellow card, pulling back Almiron, but having been so very keen on booking him the first time, Kevin Friend is really not at all interested in doing it again.

26 mins: Now Man Utd are stretching the visitors on both flanks and looking more dangerous, though their delivery from wide isn’t reliably good.

21 mins: What a strangely fallible side this Manchester United team is. They win a fourth corner, from which Greenwood eventually does that Greenwood thing of jinking onto his left foot and shooting. It looks like it would have nestled inside the far post had a defender not been in the way.

18 mins: There’s a delay while VAR checks to see if the bouncing ball hit Joelinton’s arm in the build-up, but they decide it didn’t.

16 mins: What a chance for Newcastle, and what a miss from Gayle! Joelinton plays him through, and as United hesitate in search of an offside flag Gayle homes in on goal but with De Gea exposed blasts his shot over the bar!

14 mins: Newcastle break; Willems’ pass is cut out but the visitors win it straight back and move it to Almiron, on the left-hand corner of the area, whose shot flies wide of the near post.

12 mins: Manchester United win a free-kick, 10 yards or so outside the area and left of central. Rashford takes it, and his shot flicks off the wall on its way behind.

10 mins: And McTominay continues to hog my updates by having the game’s first shot. It was from quite a distance, and was pretty useless.

7 mins: McTominay appears to have recovered from whatever was making him limp earlier, and is thus free to throw himself into more challenges. United are dominating these early exchanges, without really worrying the Newcastle defence.

4 mins: Now McTominay is hobbling, after chucking himself into another couple of clumsy challenges, neither of which seemed particularly wise in the circumstances.

1 min: Scott McTominay gets booked innside 20 seconds, for fouling Sean Longstaff. It’s extremely harsh in my opinion: there was very little contact, and you never get booked for that kind of challenge in the opening minute of a game. Well, not never, obviously, but close enough.

1 min: Peeeeeep! The home side get the game started.

And out they come! The players are busily handshaking as I type, kick-off just moments away.

The players are in the tunnel! Seven Boxing Day Premier League games down, two to go, and the next a couple of minutes away.

Steve Bruce has a chat:

To ask Big Andy to play three games in six days, we erred on caution then, and the same goes for Jonjo. It was a case of maybe having to patch up, but we’re quietly confident that we can make a good account of ourselves. They [the Longstaffs] will come in and throw lots of effort and endeavour, two brothers coming to take on Man Utd at Old Trafford, how fantastic for them. We’ve done OK of late. It’s important that we don’t get away. We’ve shown a bit of consistency, been difficult to beat, and we’re going to have to show those traits today.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has a chat:

It’s still early days for Paul and we still feel he needs to be drip-fed into this, and play more and more and gradually. Andreas and Mason will freshen us up. Scott McTominay has been fantastic all season, he’s been one of the big, big pluses all season. He’s a leader, he knows what it means, and for us it’s about a good reaction now. We need a reaction after last week, and I hope we win. I’ve said to the boys, you’ve got to go out and prove to everyone what we’re about. Life’s not in one straight line. It’s ups and downs, you win some and you lose some, and you’ve just got to deal with it.

So Paul Pogba remains on the Manchester United bench, while Solskjaer brings in Andreas Pereira and Mason Greenwood. The Longstaff brothers come back in for Newcastle having both starred against the same opponents earlier this season, while Dwight Gayle starts for the first time in a long time.

“Given that both teams have the same number of points why does one count as having been surprisingly good and the other as surprisingly bad?” wonders David Wall. “Shouldn’t they both be considered equally so-so, or sometimes good, sometimes bad (which is actually what they have been, both pretty inconsistent). Describing them otherwise is really measuring them against expectations that might not be based on how each clubs actually stands (in all respects) right now.” There’s no room for that kind of logic here.