Match Report: West Ham United 2-1 Manchester United

In a game dubbed by some as 'El Sackico', referring to the growing pressure of managers Julen Lopetegui and Erik Ten Hag, West Ham United hosted Manchester United at the London Stadium

With no Mohammed Kudus at his disposal, Lopetegui went with a line up of; Fabianski; Wan-Bissaka, Mavropanos, Kilman, Emerson; Alvarez, Rodriguez; Bowen, Paqueta, Soler; Antonio.

Ten Hag went for; Onana; Dalot, de Ligt, Martinez, Mazraoui; Eriksen, Casemiro; Rashford, Fernandes, Garnacho, Hojlund.

West Ham 2-1 Man United: As it happened

The visitors made a brighter start to games than they have been doing in recent times. After just two minutes, Garnacho hit the crossbar with a curling effort from a presentable chance.

Six minutes later, he was through on goal, albeit from a slight angle, but curled his effort wide of the post. Within the first ten minutes, Man United and Garnacho could have had two goals.

Just four minutes later, a third sitter of the game for the visitors came about, after a quick transition lead to Hojlund being denied by Fabianski from point blank range.

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Barely any time after, Bruno, who had provided one of the aforementioned big chances himself, missed an opportunity of his own, as he headed the ball over the bar from around 12 yards out. Within the first quarter of an hour of the game, Ten Hag’s side could legitimately been 4-0 up.

The frantic start did begin to quiet down, but then United missed the best opportunity of them all. Fernandes played Dalot through on goal, knocking it past the onrushing Fabianksi, he had an open goal to hit from a matter of yards out, but inexplicably fired the ball over the bar.

Man United had missed four or five huge chances in the first half, whilst West Ham had had one shot of any note, yet the sides went into the break goalless.

Knowing his side were very fortunate not to be behind, Lopetegui looked to his bench and made three chances – bringing on Summerbille, Soucek and Todibo for Soler, Paqueta and Mavropanos.

It most certainly worked. West Ham were much, much better in the second half, with Bowen and Antonio having efforts early on.

Then, just after the hour mark, Emerson somehow shot wide from barely six yards out, as West Ham cranked up the pressure on their visitors, who had seen their first half performance go out of the window in the second period.

With 73 minutes on the clock, Kilman somehow managed to head wide from a corner.

It would matter little, as one minute later, substitute Summerville scored his first goal for West Ham, finding the net from point blank range to divert a scuffed shot from Ings.

However, after 81 minutes, the visitors equalised, as West Ham allowed three unopposed headers in their own box, ending with Zirkzee’s flick being headed into the back of the net by Casemiro.

There would be one more twist, as West Ham were awarded a penalty with seconds of normal time left, with de Ligt penalised for a handball. Bowen stepped up, and scored, to give West Ham the lead.

They would see out 14 eventual minutes of stoppage time to secure their second win in third games, easing the pressure on Lopetegui. Quite the opposite for ten Hag, who will be feeling it more than ever.

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