West Ham won a Premier League game at Old Trafford for the first time in 18 years with a 2-0 victory over Europa League finalists Manchester United on Sunday thanks to goals in each half from Tomas Soucek and Jarrod Bowen.
In a battle between two of this season’s league stragglers, the Hammers climbed over the home side into 15th in the table on 40 points with two games remaining, while the Red Devils fell to 16th with 39 points.
Soucek put West Ham on the score sheet in the 26th minute after some beautiful passing up the left before Mohammed Kudus passed across the goalmouth and Soucek was there to knock it in. Bowen doubled the Hammers’ lead in the 57th minute when Kudus drove forward and his shot deflected into the path of Aaron Wan-Bissaka, who squared the ball for Bowen to tap in.
While Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim has said the May 21 Europa League final against Tottenham — with the victors qualifying for the Champions League — is the team’s focus, Sunday’s ugly loss was a big blow in their build-up for that game in Bilbao, Spain.
