Manchester United were handed a boost ahead of next weekend’s Premier League fixture against West Ham.
United head into next Sunday’s trip to the London Stadium in fine form.
The unbeaten start to the season sees Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side top the league on goal difference.
And what looked like a difficult match has got slightly easier.
The Hammers drew 0-0 with Southampton on Saturday afternoon. But the match ended with striker Michail Antonio picking up a second yellow card of the game, thus earning him an early trip to the dressing room.
The red card rules the striker out of the United game and manager David Moyes said his player was “stupid” to lunge in when on a booking.
He said: “It can happen in football, I think after getting booked the first time he was stupid to lunge in on the second one.
These things in football happen and we are not going to make too big a deal of it. He has got himself sent off and at the time it looked like the referee got it right, but I have not seen it again so I can't completely make a judgement on it. These sort of things can happen and it has done today.”
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Antonio has four goals in four games so far this season.
Before United’s away match against West Ham, United take on Young Boys in the Champions League.
