Manchester City slip up at Leicester as Liverpool, United and Spurs all record emphatic victories
Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham all recorded emphatic victories on Boxing Day, taking full advantage of Manchester City's second consecutive defeat as Pep Guardiola's side slumped to a 2-1 loss at Leicester City.
City looked to be cruising when Bernardo Silva put them ahead early on, but Marc Albrighton soon equalised and Ricardo Pereira stole the show with his late winner the inflicted back-to-back defeats on City, who also had Fabian Delph sent off late on for a bad challenge.
The defeat was all the more costly given that Liverpool thrashed Newcastle United 4-0 thanks to goals from Dejan Lovren, Mohamed Salah, Xherdan Shaqiri and Fabinho, while Tottenham's 5-0 thrashing of Bournemouth elevates them to second, with Son Heung-min scoring twice along with Christian Eriksen, Lucas Moura and Harry Kane.
United's resurgence under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer continued at Old Trafford as a Paul Pogba double, plus an early opener from Nemanja Matic, secured a 3-1 victory over Huddersfield, while Everton recovered from last weekend's mauling by Spurs with an emphatic 5-1 victory over Burnley, with Lucas Digne scoring twice while Yerry Minda scored his first goal for the club. The other 3pm match was the only one not to feature a goal as Crystal Palace were held to a 0-0 draw at home by Cardiff City. Re-live the action below.
Good morning and welcome to The Independent's live coverage of today's Premier League fixtures, with a whopping nine games taking place on Boxing Day to bring the festive cheer up and down the country.
Once the early kick-off wraps up between Fulham and Wolves, we turn our attention towards the 3pm kick-offs, where Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will return to Old Trafford for his first home game as Manchester United manager, with Newcastle United the visitors. League leaders Liverpool are also in action as they take on Newcastle United, while Manchester City travel to Leicester.
Tottenham host Bournemouth at Wembley Stadium, Burnley meet Everton at Turf Moor and Crystal Palace are looking to keep up their return to form against Cardiff, before the evening kick-off sees Brighton host Arsenal and the late match featuring Watford and Chelsea at Vicarage Road. Follow the live action below.
Bernard crosses the ball into the path of Mina who can't believe his luck as he's stood completely unmarked in the middle of the box and he loops his header into the far post.
That's his first goal for the Toffees and boy, did they need that after last weekend's hopeless game against Spurs.
Cracking finish from a centre half and Lovren is the one who has given them the lead.
Robertson swings in the cross and while Newcastle clear it with his head, Lovren hits a sweet half volley to give the Reds the lead, perhaps against the run of play, though.
It's not as good as his sweet strike versus Everton, taking a deflection on its way to goal but his left footed strike, regardless of the quality, has seen the net ripple and the goal given.
All of the top three are leading after only a quarter of an hour.
