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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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45 minutes
Just the one additional minute signalled as West Ham force back-to-back corners.
Manuel Pellegrini storms down the tunnel, surely ready to give his side the hairdryer treatment.
That was utterly dreadful.
West Ham were slow, sloppy, weak and insipid.
They deserved to concede more than the two Everton scored, with the visitors wasting a number of chances counter-attacking into ridiculous amounts of space.
The two goals came in contrasting fashions, perhaps underlining the totality of West Ham's abjectness.
Kurt Zouma powered over the six-foot-four Issa Diop from an innocuous looping out-swinger before a simple one-two down the right created space for Seamus Coleman to find Bernard for a tap in.
West Ham are two goals behind and chasing the game, but they need to reinforce defensively.
Lucas Perez has been particularly bad up front, offering, in truth, less than nothing, an absolute passenger.
To illustrate the point, the only image available to me of Perez is one from the warmup. Not a single moment worth a photograph in 45 minutes.
Where to for West Ham?
They could legitimately make three half-time changes. Mark Noble suffered a family bereavement on Friday, hence his presence on the bench rather than in the starting lineup, but they need leadership.
Michail Antonio might at least add some pace and effort. Javier Hernandez, too?
Antonio and Hernandez it is.
Pedro Obiang and Lucas Perez do not return.
47 minutes
Marko Arnautovic comes over to the touchline for a chat with Manuel Pellegrini.
West Ham have reshaped considerably. Manuel Lanzini and Robert Snodgrass now flank Declan Rice in a midfield three, Michail Antonio is on the right, Arnautovic the left and Javier Hernandez is leading the line.
Mark Noble gets a round of applause as he warms up.
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