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Welcome to our live coverage of today's Premier League game at the Emirates - Arsenal vs Crystal Palace.
- Arsenal vs Crystal Palace - match kicks off at 4pm
- Gunners can create six point cushion above fifth place with win
- Arsenal have won two of their last five home league games
- Eagles eight points clear of relegation at kick-off
- Crystal Palace have only won three of the 38 meetings
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16 min: West Ham free-kick in their own half after a Mahrez and Vardy tag-team brings Cresswell down.
Leicester 1-0 West Ham (Jamie Vardy, 18 min): It's another trade-mark Leicester goal as the boys in blue catch their opponents on the break. It falls to Kante in the middle who surges forward into the West Ham final third, drawing in three players around him. He picks out Vardy to the left of him on the edge of the box who, with a sweet left foot, fires the ball across the goal and into the back of the net. That's his 22nd goal of the season. Leicester are absolutely flying.
22 min: Morgan and Emenike square up to each other after the Leicester captain brings the West Ham striker down with a late challenge. The ref quickly intervenes and awards the visitors yet another free kick. It's dealt with by the Leicester defense who immediately look to break but the Foxes can't quite get the ball down to Vardy on the left and it sails out for a throw-in.
25 min: West Ham perk up as Moses floats in a swinging ball from the right to the back post. Kouyate rushes in to meet it but he can't make a full connection with it and resorts to flicking the ball across the face of the goal. Morgan is there to stop the danger though and boots the ball away.
28 min: It's certainly been a fiery affair so far. Challenges have been flying in left, right and centre and it's Vardy who earns himself the first yellow of the match for a tackle on Cresswell in West Ham's own half. He'll need to keep a cool on it if Leicester are to finish this game with 11 men...
30 min: And that's a yellow for Winston Reid for his late challenge on Okazaki. He's plowed into in from behind sending the Leicester forward flying.
32 min: After a frantic opening 30 mins, West Ham are looking to lower the tempo of the game. They're stringing the ball about well across their middle free before Cresswell is released on the over-lap down the left. His delivery is a weak one though and he fails to clear the first wall of defence as Drinkwater nods the ball away.
35 min: What a talent Riyad Mahrez is! With Obiang right on his back on the touch-line, Mahrez pulls off some fantastic footwork to flick the ball through Obiang's legs and into the path of Okazaki ahead of him. The crowd are absolutely loving it.
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