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:
Liverpool 1-0 Everton
75 mins: Dele Alli’s first act is to shove Thiago when the Liverpool man is playing a simple pass on the halfway line. You can almost hear Frank Lampard telling Alli to ‘let him know you’re there’.
Liverpool have kept the ball for a good few minutes now. They know Everton need to open up and try to get something and that will play into Klopp’s side’s hands.
Liverpool 1-0 Everton
73 mins: Substitution for Everton. Allan is replaced by Dele Alli.
Liverpool 1-0 Everton
72 mins: Everton have been pinned in their own half ever since the Liverpool goal 10 minutes ago... BUT NOT NOW! SO CLOSE FOR EVERTON!
Finally they break out through Gordon. He finds Iwobi who sends it on to Gray. He takes on the shot from the edge of the box and it whistles past the post! Not sure Alisson had that one covered!
Closest Everton have come, that.
Liverpool 1-0 Everton
70 mins: For all of Everton’s hard work, they are still set to leave Anfield with nothing to show for it.
Diaz, who has been sensational since coming on, ties Coleman in knots before forcing a corner with a shot off the Everton captain’s leg.
Liverpool 1-0 Everton
Here is how Andy Robertson broke the deadlock for Liverpool in the Merseyside derby.
Liverpool 1-0 Everton
67 mins: Origi gets his head to a cross from the right-hand side but it drifts harmlessly wide.
Liverpool 1-0 Everton
66 mins: Inches away from 2-0!
Pickford flaps at an Alexander-Arnold corner before Matip’s header is cleared off the line by Holgate. Salah then tries his luck from 15 yards out and it’s only just over the top.
Anfield is bouncing.
Liverpool 1-0 Everton
64 mins: Utterly ridiculous from Diaz! The Liverpool crowd are up and newboy Diaz gives them exactly what they want.
He controls a crossfield ball with the most audacious of touches before driving into the box and forcing a corner with a dangerous low cross.
All Liverpool now.
GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Everton (Robertson, 62)
62 mins: THERE IS THE BREAKTHROUGH!
It’s taken more than an hour but finally Liverpool have the goal they have been searching for! Origi links up with Salah and the Egyptian stands up a cross for someone to attack. Robertson accepts the invitation at the back post as he thumps home the header from close range.
Could well be a HUGE moment in both teams’ seasons.
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