Sportsmail has all the action on a busy day of Premier League football. Chelsea can retake top spot with a win at home against Stoke. Burnley will be relegated today if they don't beat a Liverpool side who are still in the hunt for a Champions League place. And Everton are still after a Europa League berth and can boost their cause with a win over Fulham. Tom Bellwood has all the news from 2.30pm.
3.23: I can confirm that Ashley Cole will start for Chelsea today. His first appearance since he broke his ankle during the clash with Everton in February. The Blues will start with two up front - Nicola Anelka and Didier Drogba. Full teams when I have them. 3.19: Ryan Babel has fired a smart drive just wide of Brian Jensen's upright at Turf Moor. And over at Goodison, Yakuba has missed the target from 18-yards after a mistake from Manchester United-bound Chris Smalling.
3.15: Everton are very much on top at Goodison. They've had a great penalty shout turned down after Pienaar had his legs chopped. Ref Lee Mason had a long hard look but turned the appeal down.
3.12: Still not much happening at Burnley. Liverpool have been doing the most of the pressing - they've won three penalties but are yet to force a save out Brian Jensen.
The Clarets have hardly seen the ball and aren't playing like a side fighting for its Premier league lives.
3.07: Nowt going on at Turf Moor. Zero.
3.05: Lively start from Everton. Tim Cahill, making his 200th appearance for the club, has gone close and Diniyar Bilyaletdinov has fired a shot which slammed on to Mark Schwarzer's post.
3pm: Bang on time - the games at Goodison and Turf Moor kick off.
Baird Luck: Steven Pienaar loses out as two Fulham defenders close down2.50: Right, just a few minutes away from out 3pm kick-offs. We have another game later in the day as Chelsea look to return to the summit of the Premier League.
And I hear a whisper that Ashley Cole may be starting for the Blues today.
Good news for Carlo Ancelotti wo is missing his skipper in defence.
2.40: And now to relegation-haunted Turf Moor ... David Nugent has returned to Burnley's starting line-up against Liverpool.The on-loan Portsmouth forward comes in for Chris Eagles after recovering from a hamstring problem which forced him to miss last week's defeat to Sunderland.
And after the arduous Europa League trip to Madrid in midweek, Liverpool manager
Rafael Benitez has sprung a surprise by giving teenage centre-back Daniel Ayala only his second start in place of Sotirios Kyrgiakos.
The 19-year-old made his first-team debut back in August but the last of his
three first-team appearances came as a substitute in the defeat at Fulham in
October.
Alberto Aquilani, Ryan Babel and Maxi Rodriguez replace Lucas Leiva, Yossi Benayoun and David Ngog, who failed to recover from a back injury sustained against Atletico.
2.35: Here's the team news from Goodison Park... With the second leg of the Europa League semi-finals his top priority this week, Fulham manager Roy Hodgson unsurprisingly made nine changes for today's clash at Everton.Paul Konchesky, Brede Hangeland, Aaron Hughes, Danny Murphy, Dickson Etuhu, Damien Duff, Zoltan Gera and Simon Davies are all out. With Bobby Zamora the only injured absentee after aggravating an achilles problem in Germany.
In comes John Pantsil for his first appearance for four months after recovering
from a knee injury, on-loan trio Nicky Shorey, Stefano Okaka and Jonathan
Greening, as well as Erik Nevland, Bjorn Helge Riise, Clint Dempsey, Chris
Smalling and Kagisho Dikgacoi.
In stark contrast Everton have mead just one change from last week's 3-2 win over
Blackburn, with Yakubu replacing Louis Saha in attack
2.30pm: Things seem to be sorted at the bottom of thee table with Hull and Burnley looking set to drop down with Portsmouth.
But things are far from decided at the top. Manchester United have capitalised on the Chelsea's recent slip but Carlo Ancelotti's side can retake top spot with a win over Stoke today.
But they'll have to do without their captain John Terry whose two rash challenges against Tottenham earned him a red card.
Burnley need to win today or they will be relegated. It's as simple as that. If the Clarets are demoted, they will remember the victories over Manchester United, Everton and the draw with Arsenal as highlights. They need to rediscover that form today.
Liverpool need to win too to keep up their ever-dimishing chance fo winning the Champions League place Rafa Benitez promised earlier this season.
And David Moyes knows his side need three points to keep up the hunt for a Europa League place.
We've got the stage of the season where everything's rather final.
Right, team news and stuff as I get it and please send any relevant correspondence in this direction, please - tom.bellwood@dailymail.co.uk
source: dailymail
