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 0-0 Everton
22 mins: First sight of goal for Liverpool falls to Sadio Mane.
Thiago fizzes the ball into the feet of Mane who is occupying a central position on the edge of the box. The Senegalese forward takes a touch and spins towards goal before rifling a well-hit strike over the bar.
Liverpool 0-0 Everton
20 mins: Thiago looks for Salah at the back post but Pickford is determined to come out and meet the ball and he does well to claim it in front of the Egyptian.
Everton try to create a crossing opportunity of their own but Gordon’s delivery is well overhit and Liverpool can pile forward once more.
Not much in the way of clear-cut chances for either side as yet.
Liverpool 0-0 Everton
18 mins: Alexander-Arnold forces Gordon to the ground for the second time in less than 60 seconds and this time the decision goes Everton’s way inside their own half.
Keane plays a long diagonal from the free-kick but it drifts aimlessly out of play.
Liverpool 0-0 Everton
16 mins: Richarlison finds Gray galloping through the middle. He cuts inside one, two, three challenges before unleashing a venomous shot which is blocked by Fabinho.
Liverpool lacking that zip in their play in the early stages here. Guilty of giving it away on the edge of the Everton box.
Gordon storms down the left and beats Alexander-Arnold for pace before going down. Looked like a shove from the Liverpool man but no free-kick is given. Harsh.
Liverpool 0-0 Everton
14 mins: Salah shows his twinkling feet to burst beyond Iwobi but then fouls Mykolenko as he tries to glide past him on the byline. Another soft free-kick but there was a little contact.
Matip ushers Richarlison off the ball and allows it to run out for a Liverpool goal kick. More physical than entertaining so far.
Liverpool 0-0 Everton
12 mins: Everton have everyone behind the ball when Liverpool are in possession - understandably so.
The hosts are yet to really get going in the final third, even if they are dominating the ball. They have made 98 passes to Everton’s seven (SEVEN) so far.
Liverpool 0-0 Everton
10 mins: Richarlison goes down after a flick in the face from Fabinho while the Liverpool man was running with the ball. Not much in that, massive overreaction from the Everton man.
Salah interchanges smartly with Fabinho before Holgate gets across to slam away from danger inside his own box.
Liverpool 0-0 Everton
8 mins: Gray tries to find Richarlison through the middle but the Brazilian can’t reach it on the stretch and Alisson safely gathers.
Alexander-Arnold then plays a sloppy pass straight to Gordon but gets away with it as the Everton man fails to keep it in play with a poor touch.
Liverpool 0-0 Everton
6 mins: Demarai Gray goes for goal but it’s tamely into the Liverpool wall before Jota wins the hosts a throw-in. A waste.
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