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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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66 minutes
Marko Arnautovcic is in a grump, limping, sort of, perhaps more through frustration than an injury issue.
Still, Grady Diangana is stripped and ready, presumably to replace the Austrian.
67 minutes
That will be the change.
And there are boos as Arnautovic trots off. A pretty dire showing.
Grady Diangana had a run of games at the start of the season but rather drifted away as the season continued. He'll get 20 minutes to make an impact.
70 minutes
Grady Diangana has gone to the right wing with Michail Antonio trying his luck on the left.
Antonio is rather right-footed, though, and thus it is all too easy for Idrissa Gueye to anticipate his cut inside and firmly take the ball from the winger.
71 minutes
A somewhat nasty collision between a couple of Everton players befuddled by Manuel Lanzini's Latin footwork results in Michael Keane taking a blow to the head, but the England international is soon back amongst things.
Marko Arnautovic is shown throwing his drinks bottle in anger as he sat down on the West Ham bench.
73 minutes
Three giveaways in five seconds, Grady Diangana the initial culprit, the youngster then working hard to win it back but having to watch a teammate immediately hand the ball back to Everton, who press on and win a corner.
75 minutes
The spaces are still apparent in the West Ham defence, though a more withheld Everton are threatening them less in the second half.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin makes a run into one of them and is magnificently found by Seamus Coleman with a 40 yard pass that is perfectly shaped into his striker's path.
Calvert-Lewin takes the shot early with the angle tightening and Issa Diop steaming across but his right-footed drive flies past the angle of the goal.
78 minutes
Michail Antonio releases a pass that rather sums up the West Ham performance.
It is to no-one in particular, both misplaced and overhit, and even if there had been a teammate remotely close to the eventual path of the ball the Everton defence were in shape and unthreatened.
At least Antonio is trying things, which few others in claret and blue have.
Everton haven't even had to make a substitution yet, such is their comfort and the ease of this victory so far.
79 minutes
Two unopposed Everton players wait for Lucas Digne's square pass but Pablo Zabaleta manages to block to prevent further ignominy.
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