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Your support makes all the difference.Follow live updates as Manchester United host Watford at Old Trafford in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first match as permanent manger.
Solskjaer was giving the full-time job over the international break after his impressive list of results since taking caretaker control in December.
United can regain their place in the top four at the expense of Arsenal with a win, while Watford are aiming to regain the initiative in their battle with Wolves to be the best of the rest. Follow it live:
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12 minutes
Again the Polish goalkeeper is forced into work twice in quick succession.
Bernard cuts in on his right foot and forces Fabianski to get down low to his left to palm away.
Everton earn a throw and create another chance, the ball staying aerial, lifted to the far post for Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Fabianski just about managing to swat the ball way in considerable discomfort.
West Ham are all over the place.
14 minutes
A chance for West Ham to counter, perhaps...
No. Marko Arnautovic slips as he looks to chop inside Michael Keane.
The home side are gulping in big breaths. They've been awful so far, lacking in energy and, with Mark Noble only on the bench, leadership.
16 minutes
Manuel Lanzini gets his first touch in anything resembling a forward area but is soon dispossessed.
Everton then counter-attack and there seems to be space everywhere, a low, slow, threaded cross along the six-yard box from Bernard somehow evading a glut of bodies looking to get on the end of it or clear it.
17 minutes
Another Everton counter looks perilous for West Ham but Andre Gomes takes the wrong option and Declan Rice manages to cut off both an attack-preserving pass and Gomes' forward thrust to win the ball back.
18 minutes
A chance for West Ham!
It is a lovely move, Marko Arnautovic peeling to about 35 yards from the Everton goal and turning round the corner for an overlapping Pablo Zabaleta, who shows his attacking nous with a superb square pass, played blind.
It is to Manuel Lanzini's feet but the Argentine takes a touch too many and can't release a proper shot.
Kurt Zouma rises above Issa Diop to head Everton into an early lead.
21 minutes
Dominic Calvert-Lewin appeals for a penalty as Issa Diop and the Everton striker slide towards a ball bobbling across the West Ham box, Paul Tierney content with the tackle as nothing more than a fair attempt at the ball.
West Ham have conceded more goals from set-pieces than any other Premier League team, Kurt Zouma's header the tenth of the season.
25 minutes
West Ham continue to look loose, Issa Diop the culprit this time with an ambitious pass that never looks like finding the intended target.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin challenges Diop's partner Angelo Ogbonna as the Everton striker cuts inside on to his right foot, eventually releasing a wayward shot that flies over the crossbar.
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