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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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29 minutes
Manuel Pellegrini is normally cool, calm and composed on the touchline but he is absolutely seething this evening.
He's stomping about like an elephant in musth, shouting in fury at his assistants and gesturing wildly at his team.
It has been rather dysfunctional for West Ham. Declan Rice concedes a free kick with a mistimed challenge.
30 minutes
It is another floated set piece but this one is far less threatening. Issa Diop goes down off the ball and it is adjudged that there has been a foul, anyway.
GOAL! West Ham 0-2 Everton (Bernard, 33 minutes)
It's two, and it's what West Ham deserve.
It has been largely simple football from Everton but that's all that is required against a defence and midfield this disorganised.
Seamus Coleman and Richarlison combine down the right, the Irishman storming on to a pass beyond Aaron Cresswell, who runs as if stuck in mud, unable to recover any sort of ground.
The simplest of passes across the box, the simplest of finishes for Bernard, the simplest of 2-0 leads for Everton.
36 minutes
Grim expressions on the faces of the West Ham fans inside the London Stadium.
It is one of the worst halves of football that I've seen from a Premier League team this season.
38 minutes
Kurt Zouma does well to get across and stick his right boot in the way of a down-the-line pass that threatened to curl past the Frenchman for Marko Arnautovic to get on to.
39 minutes
Everton are moving past West Ham at will. They are quicker, stronger, more agile, more driven, better technically, have much more energy.
Richarlison forces Lukasz Fabianski into a low save with his legs.
40 minutes
Marko Arnautovic is the only West Ham player who seems to be a physical match and he bursts between Kurt Zouma and Michael Keane to get to a bouncing pass over-the-top, but even his attempted chip over Jordan Pickford is insipid.
41 minutes
Robert Snodgrass curls a low shot past Pickford's left-hand post from distance.
That's the best West Ham have produced, and it wasn't great.
42 minutes
Richarlison slips as he looks to make a tackle and that makes it look worse, Paul Tierney going to his pocket for what wasn't that bad of a challenge.
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