Josh King has a chance one-on-one with Mads Hermansen, but the West Ham goalkeeper sticks out a leg to rescue his side!

And that's the half-time whistle. That half burst into life towards the end, more of the same in the second half please.

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Michael Carrick is looking to become just the third Manchester United manager to remain unbeaten in his first 10 league games, along with Herbert Bamlett in 1927 and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in 2018-19.

At the moment, his side have some defending to do as Kieran Trippier's cross grazes the crossbar before Lewis Hall fires over.

Oohhhhh that's close.

Mateus Fernandes catches Josh King on the very edge of the penalty area and Fulham have a free-kick.

The West Ham midfielder has already been booked, so Fulham are asking why he is't being shown a second.

The replays show that Fernandes was actually kicked by King as he went to nick the ball away, but VAR cannot overturn a free-kick.

It's just as well referee Matt Donohue didn't produce a second yellow card.

We're into eight minutes of additional time.

We've had just two shots on target on the south coast.

It's not been great in all honesty.

Nizaar Kinsella
BBC Sport Chelsea reporter

That was an incredibly poor moment in possession from Reece James to cause a four on two counter attack but VAR saves them in a marginal offside call to rule out Ollie Watkins's goal.

Chelsea have shown a lot of quality at Villa Park but that tendency to self-destruct is making this a closer contest than it otherwise should be.

Simon Stone
BBC Sport Manchester United reporter at St James' Park

I wonder what Michael Carrick was thinking just before kick-off.

This is a ground he knows so well, the team he supported as a boy.

Clearly there will be no conflict of interests but I doubt when he was at school he ever thought he would be stood on the sidelines, watching his own team play Newcastle.

A fabulous story.

Off we go at St James' Park.

Nick Mashiter
BBC Sport football news reporter at Villa Park

Chelsea get lucky after presenting Aston Villa with a gift. They were in control of the ball in the final third and Reece James' loose pass allowed Villa to break.

It was clinical from the hosts - until VAR's intervention - and a huge let off for Chelsea.

You'd put your house on Erling Haaland scoring there!

Phil Foden advances on the penalty area and waits for the perfect moment to slip in Haaland.

The striker times his run to perfection and rounds Matz Sels, but runs out of pitch and can only shoot into the side-netting.

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What a let-off for Chelsea. Ollie Watkins is offside.

His kneecap is off.

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Aaron Wan-Bissaka launches his bid to join Team GB's diving team for LA 2028.

He is booked for simulation, and rightly so. Laughably bad.

Alejandro Garnacho is causing all sorts of problems for Matty Cash.

He gets close to the byline and digs out a cross, it takes a nick off Cash and clips the bar.

Nick Mashiter
BBC Sport football news reporter at Villa Park

Chelsea deserve the leveller. Aston Villa failed to capitalise on the early lead and have been second best.

Yes, Ollie Watkins has had a couple of openings - mainly owing to Chelsea's fragile defence - but Villa are still struggling to maintain their performance levels after losing Boubacar Kamara, John McGinn and Youri Tielemans to injury in January.

Despite being 1-0 up, Arsenal's xG is 0.01.

Shows how easy that Bukayo Saka effort should've been for Bart Verbruggen.

Villa Park is a little quieter now.

Chelsea are in control.

Nottingham Forest look to hit back instantly as Igor Jesus is played in down the left.

Ruben Dias does well to get back and force the Forest striker to cut inside, and his powerful low shot is beaten away by Gianluigi Donnarumma. Good stop that.