Everton vs West Ham LIVE: Premier League result and final score after Neal Maupay goal breaks deadlock

51 mins: Close! Demarai Gray has been Everton’s most lively attacking player and he dances inside of Vladimir Coufal before curling an effort straight into the hands of Lukasz Fabianski.

48 mins: Thilo Kehrer jumps above everyone else in the box and nods the ball away. West Ham recover it and fly down the left side with Rice, Cresswell and Fornals linking up.

Fornals takes the ball to the byline then swings it across the box to Bowen who fires his effort wide of goal.

Everton get the ball rolling for the second half and immediately burst down the left wing with the aid of an overlapping run from Vitaly Mykolenko. He sends the ball into the box towards Demarai Gray but Kurt Zouma lunges in and taps the ball behind for a corner.

The players come back out for the second half. Which team will change the initiative of the game and maybe break the deadlock?

Arsenal climbed back to the top of the Premier League and avenged last year’s humbling at Brentford with a clinical 3-0 victory.

The Gunners were back at the scene of their dismal opening-day defeat last season which pre-empted their worst start to a campaign for 67 years.

But they are a different animal this term and proved it with an organised, inventive display and three well-taken goals from William Saliba, Gabriel Jesus and Fabio Vieira.

Such was Arsenal’s dominance that Mikel Arteta could even afford to give 15-year-old midfielder Ethan Nwaneri a late run-out as a substitute, making him the Premier League’s youngest ever player.

45+1 mins: Nothing to separate the teams as they head into the break. It’s been an intriguing if unspectacular contest and the game needs a goal to liven things up.

42 mins: Everton win a free kick on the left side as Anthony Gordon is brought down by Vladimir Coufal. Demarai Gray whips in the free-kick but it curls wide of the far post.

39 mins: Iwobi recycles the ball from another Everton attack and sends another high ball into the middle of the box.

Conor Coady and Anthony Gordon both look to get to the cross but it goes over both of them and Lukasz Fabianski plucks it out of the air for the Hammer.s

36 mins: Everton are stepping it up and whipping crosses into the penalty area more regularly. Alex Iwobi sends one in this time from the left but Thil Kehrer gets above Amadou Onana and heads it away.

West Ham’s defence has been solid so far.