West Ham 2-0 Man Utd: Player ratings as Bowen & Kudus stun poor Red Devils

Second-half goals from Jarrod Bowen and Mohammed Kudus earned West Ham United a 2-0 win at home to Manchester United on Saturday afternoon, sending the hosts above their visitors in the Premier League table.

Ahead of kick-off, David Moyes unconvincingly insisted: «I've always enjoyed playing Manchester United.» The former Old Trafford boss would have been satisfied with his side's final result before Christmas but it was not a spectacle to savour.

Bowen broke the deadlock in style as Lucas Paqueta crafted both goals separated by six second-half minutes but West Ham owed a lot of their result to United's slack display.

Taking the same joyless approach which quelled the Anfield din, Manchester United subdued a sleepy London Stadium still waking up for the lunchtime kick-off. Fittingly, the only fleeting sights of goal in the first half were born out of errors.

Kudus aimed a dozy back-pass straight at a white shirt half an hour in. Antony gobbled up the gift and slipped Alejandro Garnacho into the box but United's wide man couldn't contort his body, weakly firing straight at Alphonse Areola.

After an early sighter in the fifth minute, West Ham had to wait until the second half to test Andre Onana again. A typically vicious corner kick from James Ward-Prowse was swung on to Bowen's head, forcing Onana into a sharp tip over the top.

Bowen belatedly broke the deadlock in the 72nd minute with a rare burst of quality. Drifting out wide to get a feel of the ball, West Ham's nominal centre-forward played a crisp one-two around United's static defence, bringing down Lucas Paqueta's wonderfully deft return pass inside the six-yard box. Onana smothered Bowen's initial effort but the ball bounced kindly for West Ham's top scorer to add