The sporting weekend in pictures

Arsenal kept up their Premier League title bid with a hard-fought 2-0 win at Newcastle, a day after leaders Manchester City defeated struggling Leeds 2-1.

Celtic clinched their second successive Scottish Premiership title under Ange Postecoglou with a 2-0 win over 10-man Hearts.

Away from football, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Miami Grand Prix from ninth on the grid, Wyndham Clark won his maiden PGA Tour event and Andy Murray claimed his first title since October 2019 at the ATP Challenger event in Aix-en-Provence.

Here, the PA news agency picks out some of the weekend’s best images.

Newcastle
Newcastle United’s Fabian Schar (right) and Arsenal’s Eddie Nketiah have an altercation during the Premier League match at St. James’ Park, Newcastle (Owen Humphreys/PA)

Manchester United lost for the second game in a row as their top-four bid suffered another blow at West Ham
Manchester United lost for the second game in a row as their top-four bid suffered another blow at West Ham (Adam Davy/PA)

Missy Bo Kearns
Liverpool’s Missy Bo Kearns (centre) celebrates scoring her side’s second goal in their 2-1 WSL win over Manchester City (Tim Markland/PA)

Mage
Javier Castellano celebrates after riding Mage to win the 149th Kentucky Derby (Charlie Riedel/AP)

Jonathan Milan
Jonathan Milan celebrates as he croses the finish line to win the second stage of the Giro d’Italia from Teramo to San Salvo (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)

Wyndham Clark
Wyndham Clark celebrates his maiden PGA Tour victory in the Wells Fargo Championship (Chris Carlson/AP)

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