West Ham 2-1 Man Utd: Summerville & Casemiro strike, Bowen nets winner

ERIK TEN HAG may as well pack his bags because he looks absolutely doomed.

Match Report

The Manchester United manager, who should have witnessed one of the easiest wins of his Man Utd career, ended up getting shafted by VAR.

Ten Hag was left cursing when Michael Oliver, on VAR duties at Stockley Park, flagged up a loose leg from Matthijs De Ligt which caught Danny Ings although it looked like a coming together.

Referee David Coote spent two minutes to study the footage and to the disbelief of United’s players, awarded the penalty which Jarrod Bowen stuck away.

Ultimately, Coote was never going to over-rule a senior referee.

Although there were 12 minutes of injury-time played, United - who also claimed Ings handled the ball during the penalty incident- could not find the leveller on another day of disaster for Ten Hag.

United were in so much control in the first half, they should have led 5-0 at the break.

But West Ham’s Crysencio Summerville, who changed the game when coming on as a sub, scored his first Premier League goal before Casemiro equalised with a header.

But even so, no-one could have expected the drama at the end which did seem incredibly harsh on United.

Yet it should have been so different as United tore apart West Ham in the first half.

Alejandro Garnacho could have scored twice in the opening eight minutes.

He rammed his first shot against the woodwork after 100 seconds and then should have done better with a second chance but his shot drifted wide.

Bruno Fernandes, enjoying a remarkable amount of space, should have capitalised on some more shambolic home defending.

He ran his time perfectly to find himself completely unmarked to meet Christian Eriksen’s floated cross but he rushed a header and it sailed over.

England’s interim manager Lee Carsley was at the game and with Thomas Tuchel not arriving until January, he will be in charge for next month’s game against Greece and Ireland.

Marcus Rashford, who has been completely frozen out of international football, is clearly struggling with his confidence.

When clean through, he inexplicably ran the ball straight into keeper Lukasz Fabianski, who had replaced Alphonse Areola from the 4-1 stuffing against Spurs.

Fabianski was handed a huge let-off when he raced out of his area like a headless chicken even though he was never going to reach a ball over the top from Fernandes.

Unfortunately for United, it was Dalot who had found himself in this terrific position and while he nudged the ball beyond the Polish keeper, the defender’s finish from inside the area, with a completely open goal, was just embarrassing. No wonder he put his hands on his head.

This also explains why he has only scored three times in over 100 Premier League appearances.

Although Fabianski was dodgy on that occasion, he delivered a decent reflex save to keep out a header from Casemiro just before half-time.

West Ham failed to create in the first half apart from Lucas Paqueta’s header which drifted over the bar

Lopetegui made his triple half-time sub although both Kostas Mavropanos and Paqueta were on bookings.

And although they could not have been any worse, the Hammers did show a bit more purpose in the second half.

While Fabianski still had to push away a drive from Rasmus Hojlund, he was under much less pressure.

A £25million summer arrival from Leeds, Summerville has yet to see his career take off in east London but he did give West Ham a spark when replacing Paqueta in the second half.

And he was in the right place when he bundled in the opening goal. Ings had only been on the pitch for three minutes after replacing Michail Antonio and while the former Liverpool forward made a complete mess of trying to tuck away a pass from Jarrod Bowen, the ball fell perfectly for Summerville.

That was incredibly harsh on United but they did show some character when falling behind. It came after a long ball from sub Amad Diallo with three headers, first Dalot, then sub Joshua Zirkzee and finally, Casemiro.

Yet incredibly, West Ham got lucky and got the late penalty thanks to VAR after Ings went down under the challenge from De Ligt.

As Bowen stepped up to take the penalty, it was announced there would be 12 minutes of added time.

But the England international coolly slotted the ball past Andre Onana and somehow, West Ham ended up winning.

Match Events

0' The match is about to start!

2' GARNACHO hits the crossbar!

7' Garnacho's shot wide out

8' Chance for HOJLUND this time but again NO GOAL!

12' Bruno Fernandes' header over the bar

13' Highlight from West Ham vs Man Utd

25' Yellow Card! Paqueta booked

28' Paqueta's header over the bar

30' Yellow Card! Mavropanos booked

32' How does DALOT not SCORE here!

37' Match Event for West Ham vs Man Utd

40' ERIKSEN'S corner finds the CROSSBAR!

45' Insane save by FABIANSKI!

48' Onana receives Antonio's knee against his head, that must hurt. But he is okay

54' Chance for Garnacho but he hits the side of the net!

55' Antonio's shot wide out

57' FABIANSKI denies HOJLUND!

62' Emerson misses a golden chance!

67' Amad Diallo is stopped by Mavropanos

74' GOAL!West Ham takes the lead! West Ham 1-0 Man Utd (Crysencio Summerville)

81' Headers from Zirkzee set Casemiro up and FINALLY scored.! West Ham 1-1 Man Utd

84' Match Event for West Ham vs Man Utd

92' Bowen converts the penalty!! West Ham 2-1 Man Utd

99' Emerson's shot saved by Fabianski

102' Match Event for West Ham vs Man Utd

Line-ups

West Ham XI: Fabianski, Antonio, Emerson, Bowen, G. Rodriguez, Soler, Mavropanos, Paqueta, Alvarez, Wan-Bissaka, Kilman

Subs: Cresswell, Areola, Ings, Vladimír Coufal, Soucek, Andy Irving, Todibo, Crysencio Summerville, Luis Guilherme

Man Utd XI: Eriksen, Casemiro, Bruno Fernandes, Onana, Mazraoui, De Ligt, Dalot, Rashford, Martinez, Alejandro Garnacho, Rasmus Højlund

Subs: Evans, Lindelof, Altay Bayindir, Manuel Ugarte, Joshua Zirkzee, Amad Diallo Traore, Jack Fletcher, Ethan Wheatley, Harry Amass