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Get a load of David Hytner’s verdict from the London Stadium:
More deadpan brilliance from Mourinho. Any positives? “No,” he says. “I can’t find. We were bad last season but I don’t see any improvement, even with three new players, players with a positive impact. I like the three, I think they are bringing some good quality to the team but the team as a team, I don’t like at all. I’m not surprised by the result and I don’t think Ole can take any positives from the game.” You want Roy Keane’s reaction? Here it goes. “I knew they weren’t in a great place but I’m shocked and saddened how bad they were,” Keane says. “Everything about United; lacklustre, lack of quality, lack of desire, leaders, characters it’s a long way back for United but it’s scary how far they have fallen.”
West Ham’s performance will inevitably be overlooked by Manchester United’s woes, but Manuel Pellegrini’s side, who rise to fourth – for a couple of hours, at least – were impressive without doing anything too spectacular. Andriy Yarmolenko not only opened the scoring with a wonderful strike but made a superb block to prevent Jesse Lingard’s shot from troubling Lukasz Fabianski. “It gives us belief we can compete with the top, top teams,” says a chirpy Mark Noble. “With the squad we’ve got, the feel-good factor, we can compete with the best. Three clean sheets in a row is very impressive.”
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Full-time: West Ham 2-0 Manchester United
The inquest continues. Dire, drab, dreadful stuff from Manchester United, another insipid performance to go with the rest of them of late. By the end, West Ham, who scored through Andriy Yarmolenko and Aaron Cresswell, were coasting. Another winless away day – they have not won on the road in the league since February – an injury to Marcus Rashford compounded a miserable afternoon in the capital. Where does Ole Gunnar Solskjær, arms folded at the final whistle, go from here?
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90+2 min: The away end is hastily emptying.
90 min: A high Aaron Wan-Bissaka cross flies straight out of play for a goal-kick. That sums things up. There will be four added minutes for Manchester United to prevent West Ham from inflicting an embarrassing third.
89 min: Robert Snodgrass replaces Yarmolenko, who has been brilliant. Not only did he open the scoring with a fine finish, he has done the dirty work too. Without wanting to repeat it time and again, Manchester United have been nothing short of dreadful. West Ham have brushed them aside oh so easily.
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87 min: Daniel James slams an effort against the side netting! Fred slips the winger through and James speeds beyond Ogbonna as though he’s not there. He does well, travelling 25-odd yards before getting a shot away. But it ends up nestling the wrong side of Lukasz Fabianski’s goal. James has been United’s only bright spark going forward. They have offered next to nothing up front.
86 min: Ole Gunnar Solskjær looks concerned. Very concerned.
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GOAL! West Ham 2-0 Manchester United (Cresswell, 84)
Aaron Cresswell’s marvellous free-kick bends into the top corner. His left-footed strike is sweet and it curls towards the proverbial postage stamp of David de Gea’s goal. The Manchester United goalkeeper did get a left hand to it but he could not claw the ball away nor prevent it from rippling the net. That’s game, set and match for West Ham. Manchester United have been dire. Again.
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82 min: Manchester United are slipping and sliding, trying to get to grips with West Ham, who have poured bodies forward and Ashley Young makes a crude challenge on Mark Noble, who wins the foul. Twenty-five yards from goal, it is similar to the position a moment ago. Cresswell will take it once more.
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81 min: Angel Gomes is on for Mata. The final roll of the dice.
80 min: Pablo Zabaleta replaces Ryan Fredericks.
77 min: Cresswell takes it – and it is a thumping effort – but it is always rising. Now, can Manchester United assert themselves on this game? They cannot play much worse.
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76 min: Fred’s first notable contribution? To foul fellow substitute Jack Wilshere, 25 yards from goal. A clumsy challenge by the Brazilian, who got the wrong side of the midfielder, who did well, driving forward, clinging hold of the ball. Yarmolenko, the goalscorer, and Aaron Cresswell both fancy it ...
74 min: Mark Noble is booked for a late lunge on Wan-Bissaka. Anthony Taylor is quick to award a yellow card and the video assistant referee does check it – it was a meaty challenge – but there’s nothing doing. Taylor waves play on. “Yet again Mark Noble escapes a straight red v United,” emails Duncan. “What’s he got to do to be sent off?” It was a very poor challenge, that’s for sure.
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72 min: The Manchester United bench is, it is fair to say, decidedly light on quality. When Fred, who made his first start of the season against Astana, is the saviour, it says a lot about the problems. “I think the telling thing about the 11 Man United players on the field is that, of the 20 outfield players on the field, I think the top five players are West Ham players,” emails Joseph Harvey. “The top two or three aren’t even close, honestly.” The best player on the pitch at the London Stadium this afternoon? Andriy Yarmolenko, perhaps? Felipe Anderson was very good without doing anything extraordinary.
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71 min: The lesser-spotted Fred replaces Matic.
70 min: Jack Wilshere replaces Felipe Anderson.
68 min: Huge chance goes begging for Maguire – but that is a massive save by Fabianski! Harry Maguire recycles the debris of an Ashley Young corner, having nodded a header into McTominay’s path. The United midfielder holds off Diop to stab it back into Maguire, who hammers an effort at goal but Fabianski gets down low to prevent Manchester United from finding an equaliser.
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65 min: “Man United are lacking strikers, why did they leave Greenwood out of the squad?” emails Lukudu Alison. A gentle reminder that the 17-year-old apparently has a bout of tonsillitis, hence his absence at the London Stadium, four days after scoring the winner for Manchester United against Astana.
63 min: Up in the director’s box, Ed Woodward, sat in front of Lee Grant and Phil Jones, looks a combination of exasperated and hacked off as another Manchester United move breaks down, with James sending a cross crashing out of play.
62 min: De Gea saves from Felipe Anderson! A close shave for Manchester United, who allow Yarmolenko to slide in the Brazilian. Anderson winds up a powerful shot from the angle and De Gea keeps it out with his legs. Smart stop.
61 min: Lingard replaces Rashford. The Manchester United injury list mounts, with Rashford joining the sidelined Pogba, Martial, Greenwood, Shaw and Bailly.
58 min: Marcus Rashford is down and requires attention. Rashford pulled up with no one around him and he’s shaking his head. That says it all. Jesse Lingard is being readied down on the Manchester United bench. Rashford looks upset, very distressed. That injury compounds things for Ole Gunnar Solskjær, who wraps his arm around Rashford, as the striker trudges off down the tunnel.
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57 min: Scott McTominay – just about – manages to get a shot away! But it is from an acute angle and no problem for Lukasz Fabianski to collect. It was a well-worked move, with Pereira sliding a neat reverse ball in for the midfielder, who jinked his way through to the byline but getting any kind of power on the strike was always going to be a tall order. Down on the touchline, Ole Gunnar Solskjær is barking away about something. That was a half-decent move.
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55 min: Felipe Anderson comes alive down the left wing – but Wan-Bissaka is alert to it and goes to ground – of course he does – to intervene. West Ham almost prosper from the resulting corner, with Anderson rolling the ball into Cresswell but Rashford steals the ball away.
51 min: It is bucketing it down at the London Stadium, where Ogbonna is back on after taking a knock from a collision with Dan James a moment ago. From the resulting throw-in, James dinks an inviting – but fairly flat – ball into the box but Fabianski comfortably gathers. Manchester United’s intentions this second half have eclipsed anything they mustered up in a dreadful first.
48 min: Mata! Just wide! Pereira zooms down the fight flank and powers a cross across goal but the Spaniard cannot divert it goalwards at the back post. It was not for the want of trying. McTominay did well to skip past Cresswell, to lay the ball on for Pereira out wide but his cross has too much weight on it for Mata to steer it in with his left foot. A frustrating afternoon continues.
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47 min: Rashford leads from the front and Daniel James almost wriggles his way through Issa Diop and Angelo Ogbonna but West Ham survive. Yarmolenko puts a foot on it to calm things down before Declan Rice is caught by Juan Mata, who has had what they call a stinker. Mata is booked for his efforts.
46 min: West Ham get the second half started. No changes.
So, Roy Keane is close to imploding at Mark Noble being allowed nine touches in the buildup to that fine Andriy Yarmolenko strike, his second of the season. Asked what was missing from that first-half Manchester United display José Mourinho replies, deadpan: “In this moment, I think they are missing everything. It looks to me a sad game, it looks to me a game of ‘Let’s see what is going to happen.’ Sometimes players are a bit confused and it’s difficult for them to understand.” Work to do for Ole Gunnar Solskjær.
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Half-time: West Ham 1-0 Manchester United
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GOAL! West Ham 1-0 Manchester United (Yarmolenko, 44)
It had been coming. Noble and Felipe Anderson are involved in the buildup and then the latter, first time, coolly rolls the ball into the path of Yarmolenko, who wraps his left foot around the ball and arrows it into the far corner beyond David de Gea. It’s this game’s first moment of real quality. Manchester United’s defending was slack at best, drifting around the box, chasing shadows before Yarmolenko hammered in. Ashley Young, in fairness, had flung himself in front of a couple of crosses from the right moments earlier but few of his team-mates followed suit.
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41 min: And now Ashley Young keeps an overlapping Ryan Fredericks at bay. Manchester United have been really poor.
39 min: Dan James does brilliantly to sniff out the danger, as Felipe Anderson laid the ball on for Mark Noble. Just as Noble was about to take aim, James nipped in to take the ball off his feet and the former ends up chopping down the winger inside the United box. United were lethargic there, as West Ham patiently shifted the ball around the 18-yard area in search of the perfect opening.
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37 min: Right on cue, Rashford races to try and charge down a long Fabianski kick upfield, which Haller rises highest for. Victor Lindelöf is lured in to try and win it and concedes a foul. West Ham will try to build on a decent period of pressure.
36 min: Rashford seems to be blowing. He’s been a peripheral figure so far and, more than anything, the United striker simply looks a bit knackered.
34 min: Wan-Bissaka makes a wholehearted challenge on Pablo Fornals. It was a no-nonsense – and much-needed – tackle by the full-back. But the visitors are back under the cosh as West Ham win a free-kick, with Mark Noble teed up on the edge of the box. He stabs a volley at goal but it does not have anywhere near the kind of venom needed to trouble David de Gea. Still, it’s a shot on target.
32 min: Pereira smacks the ball at goal and Manchester United do at least win a corner, with a hopeful strike deflecting out of play. It comes to nothing but it was an encouraging passage of play, which stemmed from Maguire and Victor Lindelöf in defence before Pereira took over the baton on halfway. United have struggled to maintain any sort of tempo but they came alive momentarily.
28 min: It evades everyone and thuds out of play for a West Ham goal-kick. Young slaps his thighs in frustration, adamant his team-mates could have made a bigger attempt to reach his cross.
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27 min: Diop is penalised for a clumsy foul on Dan James. The winger’s pace is an out ball Manchester United are yet to truly make the most of. Young will swing it in from the left with his right foot, 40-odd yards from goal ...
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25 min: Yarmolenko turns Matic at the byline before a hammering a low ball across goal. United hack it away, as Wan-Bissaka makes a mess of a headed clearance. Back come West Ham, with Ashley Young eventually getting rid.
23 min: Scott McTominay thumps a cross across goal – that one is way too heavy for Rashford or anyone else to get on the end of. This is probably Manchester United’s best spell of the game so far, though. Meanwhile, Wan-Bissaka and Ashley Young have swapped flanks, with the former moving to left-back.
20 min: Up the other end, Issa Diop heads clear a wonderful Wan-Bissaka cross. It was on a plate for Rashford, who had been played through on goal a few moments earlier before getting in a tangle. Rashford never really made a play to attack the cross and Diop had to intervene to avert the danger. He did well. As for Rashford, he does seem to be playing like a player a low on confidence.
19 min: Yarmolenko curls an effort at goal – but it is relatively tame and David de Gea comfortably gathers. It stemmed from a high ball upfield to Haller, who got the better of Maguire. Fornals fed off the scraps and released Felipe Anderson out wide, who cut inside before unselfishly laying the ball off for Yarmolenko but the winger’s first-time effort lacked the conviction to beat De Gea.
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18 min: Ah, Ashley Young’s corner evades everyone.
17 min: Mata dinks a ball in behind Fredericks and Dan James is off to chase. Great ball, good run ... and Manchester United have a corner.
16 min: Cresswell zooms down the left but Aaron Wan-Bissaka is there every step of the way. Eventually, the Manchester United full-back goes to ground to halt the West Ham left-back. The hosts get the throw-in but then the offside flag goes up. Another move breaks down. That’s sloppy on their part.
15 min: Nemanja Matic winds one up and powers an effort straight at Lukasz Fabianski from 25 yards out. Manchester United’s buildup play was a little bit slicker then but it has largely been pedestrian, other than Pereira racing down the right a moment ago. Rashford and James have been anonymous.
13 min: After a long lull, Angelo Ogbonna commits to make a rash challenge on Pereira, who knocked the ball beyond the West Ham defender down the flank. Ogbonna goes into the book. He had little choice. West Ham had been knocking the ball about nicely but then cheaply surrendered possession and Ogbonna dived in to try and win it back to no avail. That’s about as exciting as things have got for Manchester United. They have been very flat.
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8 min: Aaron Cresswell does well to brush off Aaron Wan-Bissaka down the West Ham left, moments after being adjudged to have fouled Pereira, when it seemed as though the Manchester United midfielder went over rather easily. A tentative start by the visitors. West Ham are not bouncing up and down but will be relatively happy.
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7 min: Noble tussles with Matic on halfway but Anthony Taylor pulls up the West Ham captain for a foul. Ashley Young then slips in Marcus Rashford, who tries to race on to the ball at the byline. He gets there but is flagged offside.
5 min: West Ham win a corner after putting Maguire under pressure but Rashford heads away at the front post. That was easy peasy.
4 min: Diop nicks the ball away from Mata and as West Ham fly forward, Haller again does superbly to come deep and spread play. Victor Lindelöf gets across to intervene, much to the delight of the away supporters.
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3 min: Hallers robs Matic 35 yards from goal and West Ham attempt to pick out Fredricks down the right but Noble overcooks his pass. Nice try. This is Manuel Pellegrini’s 50th game in charge of West Ham. How he’d love another victory over United.
1 min: Fornals buys an early throw-in down the right flank. Yarmolenko tries to kickstart an attacking move but West Ham are happy to hold on to possession for the time being.
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Manchester United get things started at the London Stadium.
The teams are in the tunnel! Here we go ...
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Manuel Pellegrini speaks pre-match. “Last season we played very good against this team, we won very clearly and we were unlucky at Old Trafford,” the West Ham manager says. “Without any doubt, these are different moments [against Manchester United]. They have so much expectation on that team, they are not fighting for the title and it seems like it is a crisis. But the manager is very good and made the most of last season. The three points for us, and for them, are of course decisive.”
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Grady Diangana watch, anyone? “For the Hammers wondering how Diangana is doing at West Brom, he’s only dominating,” emails J.R in Illinois, regarding the on-loan forward. “He just roasted Jonathan Hogg twice as he wriggled into the box and put the ball on a plate for Phillips to give the Baggies a 3-2 lead.” West Brom now lead 4-2 with seconds remaining at the Hawthorns. Successive defeats incoming for Danny Cowley and Huddersfield Town.
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Roy Keane sticks the boot in on David de Gea and Harry Maguire, a £80m summer recruit. “United didn’t have a choice, they couldn’t afford not to buy him,” Keane says. “That was the going rate. Man Utd had to buy him, simple as that, because he’s better than what they’ve got. They had to go and do the deal. I’m still concerned about him, his lack of pace in terms of real sprinting but United had no choice.” On De Gea, he says: “I was never convinced by the character side of him, putting demands on people around him. Technically, he’s a good goalkeeper, of course he is, but I’ve always had my question marks over him. On Maguire, José Mourinho says: “If you don’t buy Maguire, I think today [United] would be playing [Victor] Lindelöf and [Axel] Tuanzebe or Lindelöf and Phil Jones. Lindelöf is very, very good in some aspects of the game but he can bullied in the one v one in the box and he’s not especially good in the air. Maguire has that presence, he is not probably the fastest one, but he is quite mobile for his huge body. In the last pre-season [last summer], I was crying for a central defender.”
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A few murmurs that Mason Greenwood has a bout of tonsillitis, hence him not being involved in the 18-man squad at the London Stadium. It remains a very young Manchester United bench, including Axel Tuanzebe, Tahith Chong and Angel Gomes. The big plus for United, who have drawn their past three away matches, given Daniel James’s early-season form is that the Wales winger has recovered from a back problem. Manuel Pellegrini said Lanzini has a “small problem” but it is sufficient for him to miss out, with Pablo Fornals, a £24m signing, getting the nod for his second league start.
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Solskjær says Paul Pogba is going nowhere in January:
Team news news: No Paul Pogba or Anthony Martial, as expected, for Manchester United, with the pair missing with ankle and thigh problems respectively, while Luke Shaw and Eric Bailly remain absent through injury. United are unchanged from victory over Leicester – they didn’t name a single unchanged side in the Premier League in 2018-19 – which means there is no place for 17-year-old Mason Greenwood, who struck the winner over Astana in midweek. Daniel James, however, is deemed fit enough to start after a late fitness test. As for West Ham, Manuel Pellegrini is forced into shuffling the pack, with Aaron Cresswell in for the suspended Arthur Masuaku, while Pablo Fornals replaces Manuel Lanzini.
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Team news!
West Ham (4-1-4-1): Fabianski; Fredericks, Diop, Ogbonna, Cresswell; Rice; Yarmolenko, Noble, Fornals, Anderson; Haller
Subs: Roberto, Ajeti, Balbuena, Zabaleta, Snodgrass, Sanchez, Wilshere
Manchester United (4-2-3-1): De Gea; Wan-Bissaka, Maguire, Lindelöf, Young; Matic, McTominay, Pereira, Mata, James; Rashford
Subs: Romero, Rojo, Tuanzebe, Fred, Gomes, Lingard, Chong
Referee: Anthony Taylor
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Preamble
The good news for Manchester United? They come into this one on the back of successive wins, and back-to-back clean sheets to boot. The bad news? Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s side are winless in six away matches, another failure to take three points on the road away from matching their miserable Premier League record. Oh, and Roy Keane, José Mourinho and Graeme Souness will be staring back at them in a swanky and spotless studio. A baby-faced teenager Mason Greenwood, who does not turn 18 until next month, proved the hero for United in midweek, while West Ham are feeling fresh as a daisy, unbeaten since an opening day humbling at Manchester City. “Manchester United played on Thursday night [in victory over Astana in the Europa League] but they changed nine players so it will be a different team,” said Manuel Pellegrini. “We are in a good moment so, if we are playing against the big teams, we must show we can play in the same way.” Solskjær, too, is feeling upbeat. “We feel we are on the right track and, if we keep it up, I believe we will be challenging for the top four at the end of the season,” he said. “It is wide open at the moment.” For West Ham, who won this fixture in April, this represents a fine chance to stamp their authority.
Kick-off: 2pm (BST)
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