West Ham United 3, Manchester United 1
London Stadium, London
The crisis continues to rein in the ranks of Jose Mourinho and his Red Devils not seeing the day of light of day with another defeat in league play with a 3-1 rout from the Hammers seeing their second win of the campaign.
For Mauricio Pellegrini the sigh of relief evidently seen in his face after his Hammers deliver a notable and important win over their long dominating foes and today at home these put in evidence the crisis going in its ranks.
From a squad reinforced dearly in the preseason finally the long awaited results are starting to make their way for the Irons suddenly seeing a revival after a dormant start of the campaign and now aiming for much bigger challenges and goals.
In Jose Mourinho case his days maybe numbered in Old Trafford as the crisis deepens between his relationship between him and his players, seeing his efforts totally in disarray as the Portuguese.
So far, the Red Devils situated in a not so comfortable positon in the overall table with just 10 points and experiencing their worst start as we seeing once again another meltdown of Mou and his players relationship going totally sour.
For this match the Portuguese sent a more defensive prone 5-3-2 formation putting in its frontal attack the likes of Romelu Lukaku and Anthony Martial to counter on the Academy of Football defensive might put in by manager Pellegrini.
As the Chilean sent opposite a more conservative 4-1-4-1 with a lone Andriy Yarmolenko in the attack but well accompanied by the Hammers Talisman Marco Arnatouvic who is pure danger to opposing defenses and today he made his case against the Manu defense.
Not even five minutes were in the game clock when the Irons made their presence felt with a first goal by Felipe Anderson in the 5’ minute and sending the whole of London Stadium into a frenzy and disbelief of seeing their side up on the scoreboard.
As the dominance of the locals was put in evidence against a start studded Manchester side not being able to make any damage to the Hammers side until disaster hits once again to the visiting side with a own goal by United defender Victor Lindelof.
Under Mauricio Pellegrini, we are seeing an inspired and determined Andrei Yarmolenko displaying a one of a kind game in every match and contributing for his side sudden revival, in the 43’ minute a shoot by the Ukrainian put the sore up 2-0 for the Irons.
Going to halftime the local Academy of Football had a commanding lead and with the promises of s much contested second half with the visiting United looking forward a second half rally or a sort of a comeback.
However, these managed to get one past West Ham goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski in the 71’ minute when Luke Shaw found a well-placed and opportune Marcus Rashford to come within one goal, and make it a contest.
Still the local Irons had the last word and decided this one with one from their man Marko Arnatouvic to seal the deal with the go-ahead goal in the 74’ minute and net another win in the campaign that uplifts this squad to 13th place with seven points.
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