AMORIM'S HAMMERED

Ruben is left red-faced as United are stunned by Nuno's strugglers

- BY ANDY DUNN

RUBEN AMORIM has had plenty of set-piece disasters to analyse with his coaching staff over the time he has been at Old Trafford but this one was a belter.

It was Soungoutou Magassa who finished calmly to give West Ham a deserved share of the spoils but the chance came after Noussair Mazraoui had been forced to make a goal-line clearance because a visiting player had towered above the home defence to power in a header from a corner.

And that player? The colossus that is Jarrod Bowen.

Amorim's team - and Amorim's defence - really do keep finding new ways of tossing away winning opportunities.

Not that this was an overall performance that merited a victory. It was a performance that was sluggish from the outset.

Young Ayden Heaven set the tone, collecting a yellow card for a woefully mistimed slide towards Bowen and then giving a fiendishly fierce back-pass to Senne Lammens, who duly sliced it out of bounds.