Bournemouth vs Swansea live: Score and updates from the Vitality Stadium
Eddie Howe's men host the Swans with both teams in desperate need of the points
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Your support makes all the difference.Bournemouth welcome Swansea to the Vitality Stadium with both teams in desperate need of all three points.
The visitors sit just three points above the relegation zone with the hosts only a further three clear above them.
Neither are out of the woods with both very much looking over the shoulders as the season reaches the home straight.
Follow all the action from the Vitality Stadium below...
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Now we turn our attentions to the three o'clock kick-offs in the Premier League with our attention on the match between Stoke City and leaders Chelsea at the Britannia Stadium our main focus.
Here's how the teams line up for this afternoon's five Premier League matches...
Stoke v Chelsea
Stoke: Grant, Bardsley, Shawcross, Martins Indi, Pieters, Ramadan, Cameron, Allen, Arnautovic, Walters, Berahino
Subs: Given, Muniesa, Whelan, Afellay, Adam, Diouf, Crouch
Chelsea: Courtois, Azpilicueta, David Luiz, Cahill, Moses, Kante, Matic, Alonso, Willian, Diego Costa, Pedro
Subs: Begovic, Fabregas, Zouma, Ake, Loftus-Cheek, Batshuayi, Chalobah
Referee: Anthony Taylor
Crystal Palace v Watford
Crystal Palace: Hennessey, Ward, Tomkins, Sakho, Schlupp, Cabaye, Milivojevic, Zaha, Puncheon, Townsend, Benteke.
Subs: Speroni, Dann, Campbell, Lee Chung-Yong, Sako, Delaney, Kelly
Watford: Cathcart, Kaboul, Prodl, Britos, Behrami, Janmaat, Cleverley, Capoue, Niang, Deeney.
Subs: Pantilimon, Amrabat, Success, Doucoure, Zuniga, Holebas, Okaka
Referee: Martin Atkinson
Everton v Hull
Everton: Robles, Coleman, Ashley Williams, Jagielka, Baines, Schneiderlin, Barkley, Davies, Gana, Calvert-Lewin, Lukaku
Subs: Stekelenburg, Lennon, Barry, Valencia, Funes Mori, Holgate, Lookman
Hull: Jakupovic, Elabdellaoui, Davies, Ranocchia, Maguire, Robertson, Markovic, Huddlestone, N'Diaye, Clucas, Hernandez
Subs: Marshall, Meyler, Maloney, Grosicki, Diomande, Elmohamady, Tymon
Referee: Paul Tierney
Sunderland v Burnley
Sunderland: Pickford, Jones, Oviedo, Denayer, O’Shea, Rodwell, Gibson, Larsson, Borini, Januzaj, Defoe
Subs: Mannone, Djilobodji, Khazri, Lescott, Ndong, Manquillo, Honeyman
Burnley: Heaton, Ward, Mee, Keane, Lowton, Arfield, Hendrick, Barton, Boyd, Barnes, Gray
Subs: Robinson, Flanagan, Vokes, Brady, Defour, Westwood, Tarkowski
Referee: Robert Madley
West Ham v Leicester
West Ham: Randolph, Byram, Fonte, Reid, Cresswell, Kouyate, Obiang, Ayew, Lanzini, Antonio, Carroll
Subs: Adrian, Nordtveit, Feghouli, Snodgrass, Collins, Masuaku, Fernandes
Leicester: Schmeichel, Simpson, Huth, Benalouane, Fuchs, Mahrez, Ndidi, Drinkwater, Albrighton, Okazaki, Vardy
Subs: Zieler, Chilwell, Musa, King, Amartey, Slimani, Gray
Referee: Roger East
KICK-OFF: Here we go! There's plenty to play for this afternoon not least for the league leaders who can go 13 points clear at the top with Tottenham, Liverpool and Manchester City not in action until tomorrow.
5 mins: GOAL! WEST HAM 0 LEICESTER 1:
Premier League champions Leicester City haven't won an away game all season, but maybe this will be the day! Riyad Mahrez has the Foxes ahead at the London Stadium. The Algerian went searching for Shinji Okazaki with a curling cross from the right, but his delivery outfoxed everyone including his own striker and West Ham goalkeeper Darren Randolph to find the far corner of the net.
7 mins: GOAL! WEST HAM 0 LEICESTER 2:
Surely this will be the day! Robert Huth has doubled Leicester's lead and West Ham trail by two within the opening seven minutes at home. Riyad Mahrez was at the heart of it once again, finding Marc Albrighton, and the former Aston Villa's man cross found Huth unmarked to head past Darren Randolph. It's a long way back for the Hammers now.
9 mins: GOAL! EVERTON 1 HULL 0:
A huge moment for 20-year-old Dominic Calvert-Lewin! It's a first Everton goal for the latest product to graduate to The School of Science and he converted in good company. Ross Barkley started the move by unleashing Tom Davies, and the teenager kept his cool brilliantly to square between two Hull defenders for Calvert-Lewin to score.
13 mins: GOAL! STOKE 0 CHELSEA 1:
At the Britannia Stadium, Willian is celebrating but the focus will be on Stoke City goalkeeper Lee Grant. A free-kick on the left was swung towards the near post by Chelsea's Brazilian but it should have been comfortably dealt with by the home stopped. Instead, Grant was slow to react and, in the circumstances, could only push the ball into his own net. No Eden Hazard for Chelsea? No problem.
20 mins: GOAL! WEST HAM 1 LEICESTER 2:
West Ham are back in it! With Dimitri Payet departed, Manuel Lanzini has taken on free-kick duties at the London Stadium to great effect. The Argentine has just flicked one over the wall and into the top left corner that had Kasper Schmeichel rooted to his spot.
22 mins: Stoke 0 Chelsea 1: Since taking the lead, Chelsea have started to show their dominance and a wonderful flowing move moments ago nearly ended in a second goal. Pedro and Diego Costa combined brilliantly to find Willian before the Brazilian's back-heel landed in the path of Victor Moses. The wing-back took aim but Ryan Shawcross got over to block the ball behind.
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