The Friedkin Group’s era at Everton started as Farhad Moshiri’s tenure ended, with a goalless draw against a London club with designs on the top of the Premier League, and a strengthening of Sean Dyche’s case for the stabilisation job that the new owners require. Chelsea missed the chance to go top of the Premier League as their eight-match winning run in all competitions came to a halt at Goodison Park.

Enzo Maresca’s insistence that Chelsea lack the experience and pedigree for a sustained title challenge was given credence as his players toiled against a resolute Everton defence. Dyche’s side had the clearer opportunities and, despite failing to take any, departed the more satisfied team at the end of a momentous few days for the club.

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After mid-morning wind and rain that might have caused Noah a problem, the skies cleared and Bournemouth took apart a Manchester United as amateurish as any of the iterations of the past decade or so.

Ruben Amorim’s men could not defend, retain the ball, or finish. So in these three fundamentals they failed, to leave their head coach appearing hapless and isolated.

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It took less than 45 minutes of his Wolves tenure for the supporters to sing Vítor Pereira’s name as he witnessed his new side thrash Leicester. The Portuguese will, however, want to take note of his opposite number, Ruud van Nistelrooy, who has gone from triumph in his first game in charge to being booed off in fewer than three weeks.

The atmosphere at Wolves has been dark in recent weeks. Mario Lemina lost the captaincy after an altercation with West Ham’s Jarrod Bowen, Matheus Cunha was charged by the Football Association for taking out his anger last weekend on spectacles belonging to a member of Ipswich staff and Gary O’Neil paid for only securing nine points from 16 games with his job but that was forgotten at the King Power Stadium.

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It turns out it wasn’t so hard after all. Southampton stopped giving the ball away in their own half, adopted an approach rooted in expediency and kept their second clean sheet of the campaign. Salvation remains a long way distant but a point, just the second they have taken away from home this season, means there is at least something to build on in the post-Russell Martin era.

Southampton’s new coach Ivan Juric, who signed an 18-month contract on Friday, was in the stand at Craven Cottage, peering through the bitter rain driving down the Thames as Simon Rusk conducted affairs from the dugout. What he oversaw was 90 minutes of very little. Even the arrival, for his league debut, of the winger Martial Godo, for which everybody has been waiting, failed to bring anything approaching resolution.

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Premier League updates from the 4.30pm GMT kick-off Get in touch! You can email Rob with your thoughts here

Everton 0-0 Chelsea

Fulham 0-0 Southampton

Leicester 0-3 Wolves

Manchester United 0-3 Bournemouth

This is the updated league table.

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Celtic dropped Premiership points for only the second time this season in a goalless draw against a diligent Dundee United. In his first match at Tannadice as Celtic’s manager, Brendan Rodgers watched his much-changed side dominate possession for the vast majority of the game but fail to find a way past a resolute defence.

It was the first points dropped since a 2-2 draw against Aberdeen in October and means Celtic finished the day nine points ahead of Rangers at the top. Celtic remain unbeaten domestically as they prepare for home games against Motherwell and St Johnstone before the Old Firm derby at Rangers on 2 January.

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