I wonder what goes through the mind of someone who brings either a Carlos Tevez or an Argentina flag all the way from London to Sheffield. First of all, where do you get a Carlos Tevez mask from? Do you have to put a special order in at a mask shop? Can you imagine that conversation? "Hello it's Mark's mask's, what can I do for you today?" "Ello Mark, it's Gary, how much would it cost to get about 750 masks of Carlos Tevez's face?" "It'll be a fair chunk mate, do you mind me asking what these masks are for?" "Well you see, we're all heading down to Sheffield and we want to wide up those Blades fans and remind them of a thing that happened 13 years ago, it'll be pwoper nawty." "Right... Ok." That's how I'd imagine that conversation would go, anyway, United won! Not only that, but we got a VAR decision in our favour! We're only 7-2 down now, we'll claw it back soon. Enough build up, let's get into the match.
United made one change to the team that played Liverpool with Oli McBurnie coming in for Lys Mousset. The atmosphere was crackling as the match kicked off, West Ham sung about Tevez and waved some Argentina flags which was nice for them I suppose. United looked a little bit shaky early on and seemed to be struggling a little bit with the physicality of Haller who managed to have the first real chance of the game when he floored Bash and then cannoned a shot well wide of Henderson's goal. United fired back shortly with a Norwood corner being met by John Egan that flashed narrowly over. West Ham would be the next to get in on goal after an errant header from Egan gave Anderson the freedom of the Kop End, it looked an easier chance to score than miss but Anderson did but it wide. It was the last chance of note for the first half and United looked a little flat and would need to be better in the second half. The second half kicked off and United did come out firing with John Fleck having an attempt on goal blocked then flashed the rebound narrowly wide. United looked lively and the early persistence soon payed off, David Martin played a ball out to Balbuena who didn't seem to realise he was playing pro football and instead of trapping the ball and playing on let the ball roll to an onrushing John Fleck who danced past the backtracking Balbuena and played a ball to the waiting McBurnie who slotted home under Martin. It was a deserved goal and United arguably had a second shortly after when Mousset was played in but wasn't able to beat Martin. West Ham did have opportunities to level and had Lanzini not been selfish. Robert Snodgrass came on and played a blinder as is per usual against us and did score the goal that pulled West Ham level. Except it didn't. Chris Kavanagh made up for his Fleck interception against City and ruled that Declan Rice had handballed early on in the build up to the goal. Was it a handball? Yes. Would I have been fuming if that had been disallowed for us? Absolutely. Unfortunately for West Ham, those are the rules now, sorry. United managed to see out the game and the final whistle blew with United back into the Premier League's top 5. It wasn't a vintage performance, far from it, but the sign of a good team is the ability to win when your not at your best and United definitely did that on Friday. Cracking that 30 point barrier is a big milestone passed, especially at this point in the season. VAR may take the headlines in this game and West Ham fans may feel aggrieved at the decision against them but if they want to take that up with the FA/Premier League, maybe they can write a letter to them on the back of all those Tevez masks. Anyway, onto Saturday and a visit to The Emirates. Until next time, UTB.
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