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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"We're are better with Marko," no pressure then, Arnautovic
"We started badly this season and improved this week, we must continue to try to improve more and recognise why we improved," West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini told BT Sport.
"We need to improve in defence, attack, in possession. Different issues we encounter every game.
"I don’t think we are going to win because they have some problems off the pitch. We must have a high performance against top players who can decide the game by themselves. We can’t think about that.
"We are better with Marko [Arnautovic] than without. He has returned from injury. I hope as team can attack well and Marko can score."
Stat!
Can West Ham raise themselves like they did in 2016? Probably not, but it'll be good to see them try!
We're off!
Manchester United get us underway at the London Stadium!
Formation
So it looks like a back three of Lindelof, Smalling and McTominay.
Back the action and Anderson's corner is met by Balbuena, but Smalling does enough to put him off and his effort goes wide.
West Ham defensively strong
"That should be the game plan today, be defensively strong. They have a very good from three," says former Manchester United man Owen Hargreaves on West Ham's team on BT Sport.
West Ham open the scoring!
Felipe Anderson makes it 1-0!
Mark Noble plays a ball to Pablo Zabaletta on the right. He delivers a low pass to the front post and Anderson finishes in some style. What a start for the Hammers, that's a quality goal!
8: Manchester United have not recovered well and have fallen back into the defensive shape that came undone so easily. They're having to dig in!
10: West Ham come forward again through Anderson, who will be encouraged by his goal, Arnautovic gets involved as Manchester United scramble back, but things breakdown with the raising of the flag for offside.
12: Shaw tries to get things going for United and the ball is switched to Young. The captain's lovely cross is met by Martial in front of goal and guided wide. The offside flag spares his blushes.
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