West Ham vs Manchester United - as it happened: Jose Mourinho slumps to yet another defeat
All the action from Saturday's opening Premier League clash
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Your support makes all the difference.Manchester United's troubled season reached a new low after a 3-1 defeat at West Ham.
Felipe Anderson's early strike, a Victor Lindelof own-goal and Marko Arnautovic's finish left United manager Jose Mourinho increasingly feeling the heat.
The drama at Old Trafford is rapidly turning into a crisis as United equalled their worst start to a Premier League season with just 10 points from their opening seven matches.
Here's how it played out:
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Good morning sports fans and welcome to The Independent's live coverage of West Ham vs Manchester United - a classic fixture, if you will.
Stay tuned for breaking team news from around 11:30 and all the build up from the London Stadium.
Brute force
Take a look at that Manchester United midfield trio: Scott McTominay, Nemanja Matic and Marouane Fellaini. With a combined height of a skyscraper and the weight of a tank, you imagine that Mourinho has pulled together this combination to stop West Ham's already limited creative midfield from getting anything in the middle of the park.
West Ham welcome back Marko Arnautovic from injury, and he will have it all to do against what appears to be a stubborn opposition.
No Sanchez?
He's been missing since he joined Manchester United in January, but this afternoon he is a notable absence from the side to play West Ham. The Chilean winger traveled with the squad but doesn't even make the bench!
You can see him here arriving at the London Stadium with his teammates, but Jose Mourinho has gone with Paul Pogba and Anthony Martial to start, with Marcus Rashford and Juan Mata the reinforcements from the bench.
Pogba starts, but not as captain
Rio Ferdinand and Paul Scholes have their say on that training ground incidenet
'Mourinho can justifiably feel aggrieved that the truce was broken'
The Independent's northern football correspondent Mark Critchley says that Jose Moruinho has made errors at Manchester United, just like any other, but his handling of Paul Pogba's situation at the club is not one of them.
'Maybe we will see what will happen in the future'
One player that Jose Mourinho is a fan of is West Ham's talisman Marko Arnautovic. The Austrian forward has shown he is determined to make the most of his career, but Hammers manager Manuel Pellegrini has told his to improve his consistency before he can think about a move to Old Trafford.
'No player is bigger than the club'
Pretty straightforward stuff this from Jose Mourinho. Paul Pogba, consider yourself told.
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