On the evening of December 23, Beijing time, the 18th round of the English Premier League continued, and West Ham United sat at home to face Manchester United.
Manchester United can be called the nemesis of West Ham United, even though the Hammers have significantly improved their results in recent years, but the two teams have met in the past 10 times, Manchester United has 7 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, occupying an absolute advantage.
This season's West Ham United has played fairly consistently in the case of third-tier operations. With just one defeat in their last six league games, West Ham are provisionally in ninth place in the table.
Manchester United are one point clear of West Ham United in seventh place, six points clear of the top four. In the last round of the league, the Red Devils took the initiative to show weakness and drew 0-0 with Liverpool. United have won just one of their last six games in all competitions. With only one win, one draw and two defeats in the last four league games, Ten Hag has once again suffered a crisis of confidence.
Raphael Varane was not included in the squad due to injury, with Ten Hag fielding a centre-back pairing of Evans and teenager Cambuvara.
Just five minutes into the game, Emerson cut through and fired a shot that Onana saved.
In the first 30 minutes of the first half, West Ham had four shots on goal, seemingly dominating but without decent coordination. Although Manchester United had 0 shots on goal, the defense was the same as in the previous game, and it did quite well.
After 30 minutes, United started to make a difference. In the 33rd minute, Antony, who had a good temper in the game, sent a wonderful pass, and Garnacho faced Areola and missed a single shot.
In the 43rd minute, it was another wonderful pass from Anthony, and Garnacho hit the side-netting from a small angle.
In the last 15 minutes of the first half, United had seven shots on goal, with Garnacho and Antony being extremely active.
At the start of the second half, West Ham were on the offensive and Manchester United played a little passively.
In the 55th minute, West Ham United won a corner kick, Bowen headed the ball on the spot, Onana raised the fire and made a brave save.
Two minutes later, United were in danger again, and this time it was Evans who caused the problem, with his close-range return ball full of power and good work on Onana's feet.
In the 72nd minute, Paqueta sent in a clever cross, Bowen touched the ball in succession in the confrontation with Onana, and the ball rolled into the United goal.
In the 78th minute, Menou made a super mistake and Kudus scored to seal the win. The camera was given to the young Manchester United fans on the sidelines, who were already crying, and when the camera was given to Ten Hag, he was already stunned and at a loss.
In the end, Manchester United lost 0-2 away to West Ham United and scored zero goals in their last four games in all competitions. Only 1 win in the last 7 games in all competitions, 1 draw and 2 defeats in the last 3 rounds (4 points from 5 rounds), in the standings, Manchester United was also overtaken by West Ham United, falling to 8th.