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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3: Chelsea have already settled into the game and are moving the ball around the edge of the Liverpool penalty areas as they seek for an opening to work though. Kovacic and Hazard are sniffing around but Liverpool are set up well.
4: David Luiz touches the ball into Firmino's path, ill-advised, but Liverpool can't take advantage of possession in a dangerous area.
5: The ball breaks fortuitously for Salah on the edge of the box but his curling effort is to central and Kepa catches with ease.
6: There's already a really high tempo at Stamford Bridge with both sides in the mood to get on the ball and attack. It'll be interesting to see how long that lasts before spaces crop up all over the place.
10: Salah misses his second shot! Alexander-Arnold feeds the winger, who easily goes past Rudiger, but he cannot hit the target from the edge of the box. Last season that goes in.
15: It's been a lively start inside the first 15 minutes. Salah has twice had chances to test Kepa from the edge of the area with time and space. His first effort was hit at the centre of the goal and easily saved, the second...well it's best not to talk too much about that one. He set himself to curl it into the corner but fired well wide.
18: Liverpool are continuing to find space in dangerous areas. Milner works it to Salah and then onto Firmino, who has a shot blocked and wins a corner.
Milner delivers a ball to Van Dijk, who is being marked by Kante of all people, but they can't get an effort on goal.
20: Alexander-Arnold sets Salah on his way with a pass from deep. The winger drives into the penalty area and tries an precise pass to fin Firmino, but Mane was free and watches on as nothing comes of the attack.
22: Great save by Alisson to deny Willian!
Liverpool go to sleep at the back and David Luiz spots and opportunity to play Willian in from deep and executes his through pass brilliantly. Willian runs towards goal from the right and can't quite lift the ball over Alisson as the goalkeeper rushes out to close down the angles.
"Lovely pass by Luiz, it was like watching a quarter-back the way he took everyone out of the game," says Glenn Hoddle on BT Sport.
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