West Ham 2-0 Manchester United
Manchester United’s Kobbie Mainoo, Jonny Evans. Luke Shaw, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Bruno Fernandes look crestfallen as they applaud their fans. Photograph: Matthew Peters/Manchester United/Getty Images
By Ed Emeanua
The teams
West Ham United: Areola, Coufal, Zouma, Mavropanos, Emerson Palmieri, Soucek, Alvarez, Kudus, Ward-Prowse, Lucas Paqueta, Bowen.
Subs: Fabianski, Johnson, Cresswell, Fornals, Ings, Ogbonna, Benrahma, Kehrer, Mubama.
Manchester United: Onana, Wan-Bissaka, Kambwala, Evans, Shaw, McTominay, Mainoo, Garnacho, Bruno Fernandes, Antony, Hojlund.
Subs: Bayindir, Amrabat, Rashford, Eriksen, Reguilon, Pellistri, van de Beek, Mejbri, Bennett.
Referee: Simon Hooper (Wiltshire).
Manchester United capitulated to David Moyes’ swinging sabre falling to a famous defeat to West Ham at the London Stadium on Saturday in their Premier League Matchday 18 fixture.
United has now gone well over six hours of total football without scoring as the Old Trafford fell by two goas to nil to a Lucas Paquetá inspired West Ham side.
Exactly at a time when Manchester United looked by far the more likely to score, Jarrod Bowen struck on the 72nd minute to give the Hammers the lead.
Bowen got on the end of a Paquetá outside-of-boot spooned pass down the inside-right area, then brought the ball down on the right-hand corner of the six-yard box, before opening his body, and bundling the ball through André Onana and into the corner of the net.
Six minutes later, Paqueta again provides another assist, rolling a first-time pass down the middle of the park for Kudus to take a touch to the right to evade Jonny Evans, before pivoting and whipping a shot into the bottom left corner in the 78th minute.
Both teams had huffed and puffed to a goalles first-half ending that saw some rather defensively inclined cagey play from the home team, and an offensive boogey effort from the visitors.
The second half began on same footing with United upping the ante in an increased effort to break their scoreless streak. But it was not to be.
Two quick-fire goals by Bowen in the 72nd minute and Kudus in the 78th, with the visitors also failing to respond, ensured that manager Erik Ten Hag’s side kept their now infamous scoreless record intact.
The London Stadium began to rocking soon after West Ham’s delivery of its second coup de grace against United. It had taken quite a while to happen, nonetheless, London has got its groove on.
Even if It had to take two stunning goals by the Hammers to get back this kind of feeling they always got from adoring fans here, the good is that the jive is back on, and it is just as well.
The Hammers fans entertain themselves at half-time. Photograph: John Sibley/Action Images/Reuters
Manchester United are rocking too, but theirs is a very different type of groove in the away stand in London Stadium. There appears to be long faces, long forlorn looks, and long some long stares ahead into a nothingness in United’s fan area of the arena.
David Moyes has now gotten one over his former side as West Ham goes up to six spot on the Premier League table, leaving United down in 8th place, and once again, the second best in another Premier League fixture.
In all, Man ‘U’ has now lost the total of 14 matches-8 of them coming in the Premier League alone-this season. The rythym of United is more or less borne out of sadness.
Well, Manchester United has lost another Premier League match this term, and this time Ten Hag might not escape the chopper.
