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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

Sam Dymond
Saturday 18 March 2017 18:11 GMT
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Both Bournemouth and Swansea need all three points
Both Bournemouth and Swansea need all three points (Getty Images)

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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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30 mins: Stoke 0 Chelsea 1: Marcos Alonso gets behind the Stoke defence and looks certain to net a second, but this time Lee Grant is equal to the effort. The left wing-back timed his run perfectly to meet Moses' chipped pass after a free-kick in a promising position had been played short.

Sam Dymond18 March 2017 15:32

33 mins: Stoke 0 Chelsea 1: Controversy afoot at the Britannia Stadium. Bruno Martins Indi thought he had headed Stoke level from a corner, but the linesman raised his flag for a push by Saido Berahino on Cesar Azpilicueta. It's an excellent decision by the official.

Sam Dymond18 March 2017 15:37

38 mins: PENALTY! GOAL! STOKE 1 CHELSEA 1:

From one push in the Chelsea area to another, but this time it's gone in Stoke's favour and they have a penalty! A free-kick was lofted into the box but as Thibaut Courtios came out to claim, Gary Cahill planted his hands on the back of Jonathan Walters. Contact was minimal, but it was enough to take the Irishman over and Anthony Taylor pointed to the spot.

Walters picked himself up to take the kick, and powered right-footed into the roof of Courtois' net to draw the home side level.

Sam Dymond18 March 2017 15:38

38 mins: GOAL! WEST HAM 1 LEICESTER 3:

Leicester's two-goal advantage at the London Stadium has been restored courtesy of Jamie Vardy. The home side failed to clear a Marc Albrighton corner and when Wilfred Ndidi nudged the ball to Vardy, the striker rattled his shot past Darren Randolph.

Sam Dymond18 March 2017 15:39

HALF-TIME - EVERTON 1 HULL 0:

Sam Dymond18 March 2017 15:48

HALF-TIME - CRYSTAL PALACE 0 WATFORD 0:

Sam Dymond18 March 2017 15:48

HALF-TIME - SUNDERLAND 0 BURNLEY 0:

Sam Dymond18 March 2017 15:49

HALF-TIME - WEST HAM 1 LEICESTER 3:

Sam Dymond18 March 2017 15:49

HALF-TIME - STOKE 1 CHELSEA 1:

Sam Dymond18 March 2017 15:49

SECOND HALF KICK-OFF: The five three o'clock kick-offs in the Premier League are back underway. If the second periods are anything like the first, we could be in store for quite a forty-five minutes - unless they're like the first halves at Selhurst Park and The Stadium of Light.

Sam Dymond18 March 2017 16:04

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