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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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50 minutes
Michail Antonio's first involvement is to handle a long ball as he looks to bring it down.
Aaron Cresswell then launches ambitiously for Javier Hernandez, but it carries all the way through to Jordan Pickford.
52 minutes
There is a little more life in West Ham.
Robert Snodgrass' cross doesn't come through to Javier Hernandez but the hosts are clearly endeavouring to get the ball to he and Manuel Lanzini more often, the little Argentine winning a free kick 35 yards from goal on the right.
53 minutes
Which is duly wasted when Lanzini and Snodgrass take too long with a pointless routine, allowing Gylfi Sigurdsson to block Lanzini's attempted cross about a yard-or-so away.
55 minutes
Andre Gomes larrups a volley against Pablo Zabaleta's ankle before Michael Keane's attempted curler deflects behind for a corner.
West Ham deal with it adequately, the crowd cheering Michail Antonio's resulting sprint as he looks to chase down a lost cause.
57 minutes
By hook or by crook Michail Antonio keeps the ball as he moves past three Everton players, dribbling with a typical bumbling style relying on effort and force rather than anything particularly technical to eventually release Declan Rice.
Everton are very content to let the pair mess about in their own half, though.
That's more like it. A quickly taken free kick frees Antonio to drive at Lucas Digne and win a West Ham corner.
58 minutes
The cross bounces in the Everton box but misses those competing for it, Jordan Pickford just about doing enough to swat the follow-up ball away.
West Ham win another chance to deliver, however.
59 minutes
It is cleared more tellingly on this occasion and another Everton counter-attack threatens before Angelo Ogbonna manages to get his toe to the ball at a crucial moment.
60 minutes
As we cross the hour mark, West Ham fans will be somewhat heartened by the actual effort their side have shown in the first 15 minutes of the second half.
It is, still, 2-0, and they haven't really created an opportunity but progress is progress.
62 minutes
Groans from the home crowd.
Manuel Lanzini loses the ball.
64 minutes
Andre Gomes has been excellent in midfield for Everton, performing his roles superbly as a destroyer, a possession-master and a box-to-box attacking threat, often in the same movement.
Declan Rice pulls back Gylfi Sigurdsson to end another Gomes-sparked move. He goes into the referee's book. Rice hasn't exerted the control he normally does, perhaps missing his usual midfield partner Mark Noble.
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