Right then, I’ll be off. Here’s Jamie Jackson’s match report from Old Trafford. Bye!
Mason Greenwood’s 17th goal of the season places him alongside George Best, Wayne Rooney and Brian Kidd as Manchester United’s most prolific teenagers. More important his second-half equaliser means Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s side have only to draw at Leicester on Sunday’s final day to seal fourth place and Champions League qualification: a demand the manager would have accepted during the dark days of winter.
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West Ham are officially safe. Fans of Watford and Bournemouth will hope however that they remain motivated for Sunday’s potentially decisive home clash with Aston Villa. Here’s the bottom of the table, with the Hammers now on 38 points and with slightly better goal difference than Brighton no longer in it:
So Manchester United need a draw at Leicester on Sunday to secure their Champions League place. The top of the table looks like this:
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Final score: Manchester United 1-1 West Ham
90+5 mins: Ighalo wins one last free-kick, West Ham head it clear, and that’s it!
90+3 mins: Yarmolenko has space to attack down the right, and the fresh legs to exploit it. Instead he turns back. West Ham seem happy with their point.
90+2 mins: There’ll be four minutes of stoppage time. Martial passes infield to Ighalo, but West Ham have him surrounded and in the end he surrenders the ball.
90+1 mins: Yarmolenko replaces Bowen, who has played well and was just flattened by Williams, who was very lucky to get away without a booking.
88 mins: United look a bit knackered. I guess West Ham’s players should be finishing the game stronger, given that they pretty much took the first three-quarters of the season off.
85 mins: And Ighalo might have scored with his first touch! Greenwood takes the ball past Masuaku on the right and crosses low and hard, and the Nigerian meets it at the near post but spears wide! Had he dummied it Martial was lurking behind him to snaffle the chance, but he wasn’t to know.
84 mins: Masuaku gets booked for going in late on Wan-Bissaka. And United bring Ighalo on in place of Rashford.
82 mins: Actually he pushed his head towards Noble’s, an act of aggression that would surely have led to a red card had the West Ham captain reacted at all theatrically. He didn’t, and VAR confirms a yellow.
Bruno Fernandes and Mark Noble square up. Photograph: Kevin Quigley/Kevin Quigley NMC Pool
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81 mins: Matic fouls Fornals, and Bruno Fernandes gets booked, presumably for dissent
79 mins: West Ham are pushing for a winner here. They’ve had a couple of free-kicks, and now Fornals sends in a cross that De Gea claims. They haven’t exactly made any great chances, but they’re certainly looking like they might.
77 mins: Another West Ham substitution. Antonio is off, and Haller, after 28, 12 and 18 minutes in their last three games, will bank another 13 tonight.
74 mins: A bit of a delay while Cresswell gets some medical attention. Eventually he gets up and walks off, and Arthur Massuaku comes on.
72 mins: The Hammers win another free-kick, this time just outside the area on the right. Noble crosses, Antonio heads over when well placed.
70 mins: Bowen bounces off Rashford’s buttocks, and the United players gets booked.
69 mins: The players take their drinks before De Gea restarts play.
68 mins: Declan Rice tries to repeat the supergoal he scored against Watford last week, but this one doesn’t quite curl or dip enough and it screams wide of goal.
65 mins: In Soucek v Fernandes we’ve got a midseason-signing-of-the-season face-off. I guess Fernandes wins it, but both have been transformational I think.
62 mins: Save! Wan-Bissaka gives the ball away on the United right and West Ham move it swiftly to the other side where Bowen’s shot flicks Williams’ boot, but De Gea reacts well to tip over.
60 mins: Fernandes tees up Pogba, who has time to take a touch and line up the shot, but it goes high and wide.
58 mins: “On the subject of Pogba at the free kick, there’s a parallel with playing the bouncer in cricket,” writes Gary Naylor. “You know you’re in the firing line, so you have to plan – duck, sway or wear it. If you raise your hands, you’re going to get caught.” This is true, except that footballers defending a free-kick can’t really duck or sway, so it’s just a question of how they wear it.
56 mins: Williams v Bowen is the night’s most intriguing match-up. Williams runs into the penalty area, feels an arm leaning against him, and goes down. The referee tells him to get up.
53 mins: Bowen gets the better of Williams again, cuts onto his left foot, but is closed down by two defenders before he can get the shot away.
52 mins: That’s the way to beat a side defending in depth and numbers: get the ball towards the edge of the penalty area and then use rat-a-tat passing and lightning movement to take it from there. Very close to undefendable.
GOAL! Manchester United 1-1 West Ham (Greenwood, 50 mins)
Excellent build-up here from United, with Greenwood passing to Martial, getting it back, giving it to Martial again, getting it back again, and then smashing a low left-footer inside the near post. Almost a trademark finish, if an 18-year-old can have one of those.
Mason Greenwood scores the equalising goal. Photograph: Catherine Ivill/AFP/Getty Images
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46 mins: The Hammers are really looking very decent here. The way they stroke the ball about in the first minute of the second half is really excellently good, but Johnson’s cross at the end of it is not.
46 mins: And they’re off! Again!
One half-timely change for Manchester United: Wan-Bissaka replaces Fosu-Mensah. The second half will begin imminently.
“Ball coming at speed directly at your face. I don’t think that thousands of years of evolution can be unlearned,” argues Mary Waltz. I do have sympathy for Pogba there, but I noted that Gary Neville, an actual professional footballer (once) had none.
“Did is miss something or did Pogba not get a yellow card there? Surely, that’s gotta be a yellow, right?” No yellow. It was an act of cowardice rather than malice.
Half time: Manchester United 0-1 West Ham
45+3 mins: And that’s the last significant action of the half! Manchester United started excellently, got gradually worse, and trail at the break!
GOAL! Manchester United 0-1 West Ham (Antonio, 45+2 mins)
Antonio sends De Gea the wrong way and sidefoots his penalty gently into the empty half of goal!
West Ham United’s Michail Antonio (right) scores his side’s first goal Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA
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45+1 mins: This is going to be a penalty. I can’t really blame Pogba for raising his hands, given the speed at which a ball was rocketing towards his head, it’s a basic human impulse. Sadly it’s one that footballers have to learn to override.
Paul Pogba (C) reacts after handling the ball and conceding a penalty. Photograph: Martin Rickett/AFP/Getty Images
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45 mins: The free-kick is passed infield to Rice, who smashes a drive straight into Pogba! His hands were up and West Ham are asking for a penalty!
45 mins: Fosu-Mensah is booked for bringing down Antonio as he built up another head of steam.
