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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14: Martial drops deep and gets between the lines to increase the speed of the build up play and links well with Young. The right-back tries to slip him in behind on the wing, but the ball runs out of play.
West Ham are sitting tight to hold onto what they have and their front three pose a serious threat on the counter-attack.
Mixed support for Mourinho
The travelling Manchester United supports are showing their support for their manager with chants of "Mourinho's red and white army" audible from the away end. The West Ham fans, however, see things in a different way and are hitting him with the classic, "you're getting sacked in the morning."
18: Noble's ball from deep over the top almost reaches Arnautovic. Smalling was on hand to defend and almost gets in De Gea's way as he charges out and claims the ball.
20: West Ham are moving the ball around quite nicely, no really. Arnautovic is dropping in to link things up, Anderson and Yarmolenko are appearing in so many areas unmarked. In short, West Ham are good and Manchester United are not.
21: Young delivers a string of crosses into the box, the first gets blocked and the second falls to Lukaku, who is offside.
22: Off the post!
Young's cross finds Lukaku at the front post and he attacks it in the brilliant way he can. He gets across his man and directs a header at goal but it thuds against the post and goes wide. Fabianski was rooted. United's best chance.
Young is by far United's best attacking player. Just think about that for a second.
27: Manchester United are working their way back into this game as Pogba and Martial introduce themselves to the contest. Lukaku is also beginning to make a bigger nuisance of himself in the box, he takes down a cross and can't get the ball out of his feet as West Ham scramble to clear.
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