Manchester United are just a point outside of the top four after Marcus Rashford's 100th goal for the club beat a battling West Ham.
Rashford, who had an earlier header saved by Lukasz Fabianski, rose to brilliantly power home Christian Eriksen's superb cross seven minutes before half-time for the game's only goal.
West Ham were threatening throughout the game though, and after Said Benrahma came close in the first half, David de Gea superbly saved from Kurt Zouma's header in the second.
Substitute Fred later hit a post for United but, thanks to more fine De Gea saves, the hosts held on to move a point behind Newcastle in the table.
Here are the game's talking points.
We may still not have seen Marcus Rashford's full array of gifts
He's quick, he's better cutting in from wide areas and he is a very, very kind man. We know all this about Marcus Rashford.
But given how United have been coached in the past few years, there may still be more to know.
From Jose Mourinho's static approach to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's fun supply teacher vibe, you've never quite been sure just what it is United's players do in training, particularly the attacking ones.
Then after Ralf Rangnick's hands-off, scarcely bothered approach comes Erik ten Hag, clearly a committed coach who has specific ideas in mind for his players.
It may well be that Rashford's main position ends up being through the middle as a roving attacking menace, but coming in off the left here he was able to showcase an ability we didn't quite know he had.
That early low header which was saved by Lukasz Fabianski proved to be his sighter, as he followed that up with his superb, Cristiano Ronaldo-style thumping header that went high into the net past the Pole.
Where did that come from? And what else is to come?
In Ten Hag, Rashford might just have found the right manager at the right time.
Christian Eriksen's extra second
If anyone knows the value of time it is Eriksen, and it will have been that desire to make the most of the rest of his career that saw him make the decision to join United on a free transfer at the age of 30.
He'd have done so without any assurances of a first-team place, but with the hope that he could show his vast array of gifts on the grandest of stages.
Eriksen is a player who, at his best, looks to be playing the game a second ahead of the majority of players around him, seeing things that others don't see.
It was a superb cross for Rashford's goal, and a reminder that he could have a huge, if short-term impact on this Ten Hag revolution.
Brilliant but blunt Said Benrahma
Said Benrahma is a brilliant footballer, the type that you could watch operate between the halfway line to the edge of opposition penalty area forever more.
It's just about what happens once he goes in there.
Having overtaken the likes of Pablo Fornals and Manuel Lanzini, and in another way Michail Antonio, Benrahma is trusted to start such big games by David Moyes for the way that he can progress West Ham up the pitch.
If he can only add a decisiveness and clarity of thought once he's there, then the Algerian could be a seriously impressive footballer, and a seriously serious one if you like.
Harry Maguire avoids being the fall guy
Well would you look at that. A whole 90 minutes of football from Harry Maguire where he didn't step on a load of rakes even once.
Restored to the starting XI, and thus the captaincy, due to injury and illness suffered by Raphael Varane and Victor Lindelof respectively, Maguire was in the spotlight up against West Ham's awkward customer Gianluca Scamacca, and then later Antonio.
He wasn't completely flawless, and could have given a penalty away when he challenged Jarrod Bowen, but amid the hysteria this was a perfectly fine display from a player who will be a key part of England's plans in Qatar, whatever anyone thinks.
Helped by the very impressive Diogo Dalot to his right and Lisandro Martinez to his left, Maguire did a decent job in a confidence boosting display.
Jadon Sancho sees the writing on the wall
Maguire is still the second most expensive English footballer of all-time, with No.1 Jack Grealish also highly likely to be joining him in Qatar next month.
As for No.3 though...
Jadon Sancho was omitted from the starting lineup by Ten Hag here, a move which said a lot given that both Anthony Martial and Antony were unavailable.
Ten Hag turned to the other Anthony, Elanga, off the right, with Rashford proving so dangerous coming in off the left and Cristiano Ronaldo - for we have to mention him at least once - doing his thing in the centre.
For Sancho, who has only played once for England since the Euro 2020 final, it was a clear snub, and showed why as attention is turning towards the World Cup it is his club place rather than his international one which will be on his mind.
