Manchester United vs West Ham LIVE: Premier League score and result after Alejandro Garnacho double
Manchester United beat West Ham in the Premier League
Manchester United’s Alejandro Garnacho netted twice after Rasmus Hojlund scored on his 21st birthday as the Old Trafford side beat West Ham United 3-0 to climb above the visitors into sixth place in the Premier League on Sunday.
On the heels of a 4-3 win at Wolverhampton Wanderers on Thursday, Erik ten Hag’s team now have 38 points after 23 games, eight adrift of fourth spot. The Hammers are seventh with 36.
Hojlund scored in the 23rd minute when Casemiro prodded the ball forward after West Ham failed to clear a high ball. The Dane knocked the ball past a couple of defenders before firing home from the centre of the box into the bottom corner.
Hojlund, who did not score his first league goal until Dec. 26, became the youngest player in the Old Trafford team’s history to score in four consecutive Premier League appearances.
Garnacho doubled the lead in the 49th after his shot from the corner of the box took a big deflection to send substitute goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski the wrong way.
The Argentine netted his second in the 84th after Kalvin Phillips lost the ball and Scott McTominay pounced, finding Garnacho in the box.
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Zouma keeps his side in the game with a crucial intervention, nudging behind as a loose ball fell in the box with Fernandes waiting to pounce.
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Bowen has scored seven away goals for West Ham in the Premier League this season, with Mike Small in 1991-92 (nine) the last player to score more on the road in a top-flight campaign for the Hammers.
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A Ward-Prowse corner is nodded out to Cornet, who fires back into the danger area. However, Zouma can only turn around the post. The visitors have looked far less threatening since Garnacho doubled United's lead.
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Fifteen minutes to play in Manchester, and West Ham are looking a little lost for ideas at the moment on how to find a way back into the contest. They will be left to rue their missed opportunities if they go on to lose this game.
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Substitution Tomáš Souček Gnaly Albert Maxwel Cornet
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Substitution Vladimír Coufal Kalvin Mark Phillips
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WHAT A BLOCK!!! A delightful pass over the top from Alvarez sees Maguire misjudge the flight of the ball. Bowen takes it down brilliantly and bears down on goal, but he takes too much time to get a shot off, allowing Dalot to get back in the nick of time to make a vital intervention.
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Substitution Lisandro Martínez Raphaël Xavier Varane
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Despite looking troubled, Martinez is going to try and battle on. Ten Hag will not want to take too many risks, though, with such an important player.
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Martinez goes down and immediately clutches at his right knee. This does not look good for the Argentina international, who has already missed a lot of this season through injury.
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