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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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↵A winning start in permanent charge for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at Manchester United, but Watford made them fight throughout the 90 minutes, with Javi Gracia's side the better team on the afternoon.
How did the players rate at Old Trafford?
We'll have plenty more reaction to Huddersfield's relegation and all of this afternoon's other footballing action this evening and tomorrow, but it's now time to turn our attentions to the London Stadium for a mid-table meeting.
Everton are in East London to meet West Ham, unbeaten at home in 2019, and kick-off is less than half-an-hour away...
Team News - West Ham
Manuel Pellegrini has to do without Felipe Anderson with a niggly ankle injury. Lucas Perez gets a start alongside Marko Arnautovic, while Pedro Obiang is preferred to Mark Noble in midfield with Aaron Cresswell taking the captain's armband.
Team News - Everton
Kurt Zouma returns to the Everton team which otherwise has a familiar look to it as Marco Silva chases consistency after that strong victory against Chelsea last time out.
Like the rest of the mid-table array, these are two of the most consistently inconsistent teams in the Premier League, though they are both squarely in the race for seventh place.
Wolves' defeat at Burnley this afternoon opens things up even further, and after three home wins on the bounce West Ham are within striking distance, taking position as the best-of-the-rest with a victory today.
Everton are two points further back.
It looks like Manuel Pellegrini may return to his 4-2-2-2 formation this afternoon with Manuel Lanzini and Robert Snodgrass creating behind Lucas Perez and Marko Arnautovic.
Everton have their own potent creator in Gylfi Sigurdsson, and when flanked by Brazilian duo Bernard and Richarlison it is a side that can cause real threat, particularly given Dominic Calvert-Lewin's continued development leading the line.
It has all the makings of a cracking game of football.
There's no Yerry Mina for Everton today with the Colombian stricken on international duty just as he was looking to force his way into Marco Silva's first-choice team.
Kurt Zouma and Michael Keane have dovetailed well this season, at times, but Silva will miss his €30 million signing and sounded furious in the week when the news of Mina's injury broke.
Warmups completed, both teams are assembling themselves in the tunnel.
It's been a day of change at the top, we've lost our first team of the season at the bottom, and now it's time for a meeting in the middle.
It's tenth against eleventh, and West Ham against Everton is moments away...
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