Jose Mourinho tripped up again at St. James' Park as his Manchester United team was surprisingly beaten 1-0 by Newcastle on Sunday for a second loss in its last three Premier league games.
Matt Ritchie's 65th-minute goal — following a free kick awarded for a dive by United defender Chris Smalling — gave Newcastle a victory that lifted it out of the relegation zone.
It is now seven Premier league matches without a win at Newcastle's ground for Mourinho, who lost three and drew three there across two stints in charge of Chelsea.
More importantly for the Portuguese coach, second-placed United wasted a chance to pull clear of its rivals for Champions league qualification, with Tottenham, liverpool and Chelsea still in range. Manchester City, which beat leicester 5-1 on Saturday, holds a 16-point lead with 11 games left.
Newcastle goalkeeper Martin Dubravka had a Premier league debut to remember, saving brilliantly in the first half from Anthony Martial, in the final seconds from Michael Carrick, and looking assured as United piled on the pressure in the second half.
Alexis Sanchez delayed in front of an open goal and had a shot blocked, while Martial also had two efforts blocked near the goal line by Dwight Gayle.
Napoli beat lazio to go top
MIlAN: Not content with moving back to the top of Serie A, Napoli also boosted its credentials as Italy's most entertaining team by crushing third-placed lazio 4-1 on Saturday.
Napoli recovered from an early goal down to level at the end of the first half and then blew lazio away.
Maurizio Sarri's team moved back to a point above six-time defending champion Juventus, which won at Fiorentina 2-0 on Friday.
Napoli walked out onto the pitch wearing shirts with the name and number of teammate Faouzi Ghoulam, who — having been out since November with an ACl injury — faces another month at least on the sidelines after needing a knee operation this week.
"This victory is dedicated to Ghoulam," Napoli goalscorer Jose Callejon said. "This team is a family, we're all working for a dream that we have in our heads.
"We had a great game, playing with our hearts and legs right until the end. It's from the first day of preseason that we've been working for the title."
lazio remained third after its third successive league defeat, seven points behind Napoli, and could be overtaken by Inter Milan and Roma on Sunday.
Earlier, AC Milan beat relegation-threatened Spal 4-0, and Atalanta drew at Crotone 1-1.
lazio got off to the perfect start as Stefan de Vrij stuck out a foot to prod Ciro Immobile's cross past Pepe Reina and give his side a third-minute lead.
De Vrij also opened the scoring when lazio lost to Napoli 4-1 earlier in the season.
Napoli leveled in the final minute of the half when Callejon brought down a long free kick from Jorginho and fired it into the bottom left corner.
Napoli dominated after the break and took the lead after lazio defender Wallace turned Callejon's cross into his own net.
Mario Rui increased Napoli's advantage moments later, with an effort deflected in by teammate Piotr Zielinski.
Zielinski also had a hand in Napoli's fourth, bamboozling two defenders, before unleashing a shot which Dries Mertens finished off. It was Mertens' 15th league goal and his fifth in his past four matches.