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Key events
72 min: Casemiro accidentally stands on Potts’ right foot. Potts goes over in some discomfort but gets back up soon enough.
71 min: … and nothing happens at the corner as a result of Bowen’s poor delivery. Still, that’s better from West Ham, though the bar is set low.
70 min: Mateus Fernandes sends Diouf barrelling down the left. Diouf crosses long but Wilson can’t win a header in the box. Zirkzee clears. West Ham come again through Bowen down the right. He cuts back for Potts, who chests down on the right-hand corner of the six-yard box only to see his shot deflected wide by Casemiro.
68 min: The goalscorer Dalot is replaced by Dorgu.
66 min: … and so Old Trafford serenades Ruben Amorim at volume.
64 min: That one Magassa burst apart, West Ham haven’t responded to falling behind. Manchester United look pretty comfortable at the moment.
62 min: Dalot flinging in from the right this time. West Ham clear easily, then Magassa tries to release Bowen with a long hoof up the middle. But he slices it to the right and Bowen’s never getting to it. Bowen flips his head back in frustration.
61 min: Bruno Fernandes tries to force the ball through a busy box and towards the bottom-left corner, but that’s easy for Areola.
60 min: Dalot’s now back at the day job, flinging a long throw in from the left. Yoro tries to flick on but can’t get any purchase on his header.
GOAL! Manchester United 1-0 West Ham United (Dalot 58)
… and here’s the opening goal. Diallo works infield from the right. He lays off to Casemiro, who takes a wild swipe at goal. The shot-cum-cross is heading left, but sits up for Dalot on the penalty spot. Dalot swivels and dispatches adroitly into the bottom left. Lovely finish! Wan-Bissaka very deep and playing him onside.
57 min: … and now West Ham counter through Magassa, who exchanges passes with Wilson down the inside-right channel before bothering the side netting. The away fans thought that was in; the home fans respond as you’d expect. This game is slowly beginning to open up.
56 min: Mavropanos heads half-clear. The ball breaks to the left. Shaw wins a corner off Wan-Bissaka. Bruno Fernandes plays it short to Diallo, who hooks it in. The ball breaks to Mbeumo, who drives towards the bottom left. Potts blocks. Shaw blooters over, then the flag goes up for offside.
55 min: Now it’s Manchester United’s turn to purchase a cheap free kick, Casemiro drawing Magassa into some nonsense 30 yards out to the right. Bruno Fernandes to swing it into the box.
54 min: Bowen buys a cheap free kick out on the left, stepping in ahead of Shaw. Potts sends the set piece into the mixer, but Manchester United deal with it easily enough. Lammens hasn’t had a single save to make tonight.
52 min: Cunha hooks Magassa’s leg from underneath him, from behind. Magassa screams loudly, but is thankfully OK. Cunha perhaps slightly fortunate not to go into the book.
51 min: West Ham respond with a little sterile possession of their own.
49 min: It’s been nearly 100 percent Manchester United since the restart, but nothing’s happening in the final third … ah hold on! Suddenly Bruno Fernandes cuts in from the right and lays off to Zirkzee, who flicks a cute pass around the corner that nearly releases Mbeumo into the box. Potts extends a leg to deflect the ball off the Manchester United man and out of play, and the danger is over.
47 min: Manchester United waste no time in getting the ball out to the first-half dangerman Diallo … but his cross from the right, intended for Mbeumo, is off target. “I hadn’t quite written West Ham off this season, but they seemed most likely to go down of the teams above Wolves,” begins Kári Tulinius. “But Nuno seems to have sorted out West Ham at the back. They don’t look as panicky as they’ve been this season. On the other hand, they’re entirely reliant on Bowen for creativity. I don’t know if they’re good enough defensively to one-nil their way out of relegation.”
Manchester United – who kept West Ham waiting before finally emerging from the tunnel – get the match going again. As they prefer, they’re kicking towards the Stretford End in this second half. Yoro replaces Heaven, and receives a warm round of supportive applause upon crossing the touchline.
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Half-time postbag. “This has been a pretty decent game, which I feel could be ruined by a goal either way – if Man Utd score West Ham will probably fold, and if West Ham score they’ll try and sit on it (not in the way Fonzie meant it)” – Dan Christmas
“My da and I traveled from Dublin to this fixture back in 1978, for my very first English football weekend. They’d very little of that green stuff they play on now back in those days (even in April!) and all the players were from Britain and Ireland, including the great Billy Bonds. Some things don’t change though: United had another new manager that year, and were miles off the pace in the league” – Justin Kavanagh
“Diallo will be a huge loss to United when he goes to Afcon. There is nobody else in the squad who can play as an attacking wing back for them and I feel this was a huge mistake in the summer to focus entirely on strikers without signing another winger who could play wing back in Amorim’s system” – John Brennan
“I feel sad, seeing Wan-Bissaka not playing for Man Utd anymore. Will this fade in time?” – Paul Moody
HALF TIME: Manchester United 0-0 West Ham United
Nothing happens at the corner, and that’s the end of a first half you can file under Intriguing rather than Exciting. It’s not been without merit, Manchester United growing in confidence as the half went on, getting closer and closer to an opening goal, while West Ham have looked dangerous a couple of times on the break, albeit mainly during the early exchanges. But here we are, and both teams will be looking for an improvement in the second half.
45 min: Soucek bursts into the Manchester United box down the inside-right channel. Mazraoui hangs out a leg. Soucek things about going over it, but plays it straight. Heaven knocks the loose ball out for a corner.
44 min: Heaven gives Wilson a gentle nudge in the back. A garden variety free kick … then he thinks about taking a frustrated swipe at the loose ball. Careful.
42 min: Another long throw by Dalot, this time from the right. Mavropanos is forced to head it behind for a corner. Diallo sends it in. Areola punches clear under pressure from Zirkzee. It’s all Manchester United.
40 min: A free kick for Manchester United 40 yards out. Bruno Fernandes swings a diagonal towards Cunha, on the right-hand edge of the six-yard box. Diallo attempts to Mark Hughes one into the goal from the penalty spot, but his overhead nearly takes Bowen’s head off instead and that’s a free kick.
38 min: Bruno Fernandes loops a cross in from the right. Wan-Bissaka stoops to head bravely away under pressure from Dalot. Manchester United are pressing hard for the opening goal; it feels like it’s coming.
37 min: Diallo has got the beating of Diouf down the right, and now draws a cynical clip on the heel that earns the West Ham left-back a booking. Given the trouble Diallo has already caused, it’s going to be a long evening now for Diouf. Or a truncated one, depending on which way you look at it.
36 min: Casemiro drives into the West Ham box from the left but is stopped by the leg of Wan-Bissaka, which telescopes into view from nowhere. Perfectly timed. Then up the other end, Bowen jinks in from the right, evading a couple of half-arsed challenges from Heaven and Casemiro, before taking a shot that’s deflected off Shaw into the arms of Lammens.
34 min: Dalot throws long from the left. West Ham don’t properly deal with it, and soon the ball is pinballing around the box. Bruno Fernandes finally tries to whistle a drive through the crowded area, but the latest set of rebounds favour West Ham and they clear their lines.
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