Chelsea vs West Ham LIVE: Premier League results, final scores and reaction from today’s games
Follow all the latest reaction from Sunday’s three early kick-offs at Stamford Bridge, Turf Moor and the Amex Stadium
It was not pretty and, when Jorginho hopped, skipped and fluffed an 87th-minute penalty, it looked like it would not come at all. But Chelsea were able to squeeze out a narrow 1-0 victory over West Ham thanks to Christian Pulisic’s 90th-minute winner in a match that will not last long in the memory.
The goal itself was smartly constructed and taken. On as a second-half substitute, Pulisic timed and adjusted a run into the box to get on the end of Marcos Alonso’s cut-back, after Mason Mount had carried the ball forward in desperation. The American stroked a finish into the far corner from his left foot for his fourth goal of the Premier League campaign. The equalling of last season’s tally that little bit less important than the end of a run two successive home deafest, and a much-needed clean sheet after shipping four goals in both.
Thomas Tuchel was relieved rather than buoyed. This was not a display to hang your hat on, and it is hard to think of a player beyond the usual suspects of Mount and Thiago Silva who emerged with any top-up of credit. But the three points re-establishes distance between them and Arsenal - now five points, with a game in hand. Follow all the team news, build-up and latest scores from all three games below:
Chelsea 0-0 West Ham
76 mins: Havertz escapes down the right but Johnson gets there first to turn his cross away.
Then Kante receives the ball inside the box but his shot is blocked.
Here come three changes for Chelsea...
Chelsea 0-0 West Ham
75 mins: Another chance for Chelsea!
Mount’s initial corner comes back out to him. He lays it off to Alonso who sends the cross into the box and it falls kindly for Werner who flicks it towards the top corner but Fabianski makes the save.
Chelsea 0-0 West Ham
73 mins: Jarrod Bowen is on for Andriy Yarmolenko. David Moyes not settling for a point here today.
Chelsea 0-0 West Ham
72 mins: Chelsea finally beginning to open West Ham up!
Mount has the time to send a cross into the middle from the left-hand side and somehow it evades Werner, Havertz and Loftus-Cheek!
Not sure how that managed to miss three Chelsea players and four West Ham defenders.
Chelsea 0-0 West Ham
70 mins: MASSIVE CHANCES FOR BOTH!
Yarmolenko storms down the right, cuts inside and rifles an effort off the body of Mendy. He has a second bite at it but Mendy is equal to it once more.
Then Chelsea break and Mount’s fierce effort is superbly blocked AGAIN by Dawson before Werner’s close range follow-up is fired into the side-netting.
Chelsea 0-0 West Ham
68 mins: Fornals gallops forward and tries to slide a pass into Yarmolenko but he puts way too much on the through ball and Mendy can gather.
Thiago Silva then storms through the middle of the pitch before unleashing a shot which cannons off Werner in an offside position.
That. Sort. Of. Game.
Chelsea 0-0 West Ham
66 mins: Chelsea are knocking the ball around on the halfway line but have very little desire to move it forward with any conviction.
Eventually they lose it and Cresswell wins a throw-in off Havertz.
Chelsea 0-0 West Ham
64 mins: It seems like this is the only one of the three games this afternoon where even the players are uninterested.
Essentially, nothing has happened in the last five minutes.
Chelsea 0-0 West Ham
62 mins: David Moyes is the first manager to roll the dice with a substitution. Declan Rice has replaced Mark Noble and picks up the armband as well.
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