{"id":2300,"date":"2017-08-13T16:03:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/13\/manchester-united-v-west-ham-united-premier-league-live\/"},"modified":"2017-08-13T16:03:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T14:03:11","slug":"manchester-united-v-west-ham-united-premier-league-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=2300","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United v West Ham United: Premier League \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League updates from the 4pm BST kick-offMourinho \u2018on fire\u2019 at United | Joe Hart on his move to West HamAnd feel free to email rob.smyth@theguardian.com 3.03pm BST Man Utd (4-2-3-1) De Gea; Valencia, Bailly, Jones, Blind; Pogba, Matic; Mkhitaryan, Mata, Rashford; Lukaku.Substitutes: Romero, Smalling, Darmian, Herrera, Fellaini, Lingard, Martial.West Ham (4-2-3-1) Hart; Zabaleta, Reid, Ogbonna, Masuaku; Noble, Obiang; Fernandes, Ayew, Arnautovic; Hernandez.Substitutes: Adrian, Rice, Byram, Collins, Fonte, Cresswell, Sakho. 10.44am BST What comes next in this sequence? 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 7, 4, 5, 6. It reads like a maths puzzle that even Max Fischer couldn\u2019t solve. In fact, as you have doubtless realised, these are Manchester United\u2019s league positions in the last 10 years. There have been plenty of reasons for United\u2019s league struggles; this year, however, everyone at the club will at least expect them to challenge for the title for the first time since Sir Alex Ferguson retired. It\u2019s not as easy as it seems \u2013 a very good team will finish sixth this season \u2013 but this looks like a very powerful, very Mourinho team. United\u2019s biggest problem last season was that they repeatedly thrashed teams 1-1 and 0-0 at Old Trafford. Today will give us an early indication whether they will be more clinical this season. The signing of Romelu Lukaku, a small-game specialist at this stage of his career, should certainly help. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2017\/aug\/13\/manchester-united-v-west-ham-united-premier-league-live\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United v West Ham United: Premier League \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League updates from the 4pm BST kick-offMourinho \u2018on fire\u2019 at United | Joe Hart on his move to West HamAnd feel free to email rob.smyth@theguardian.com 3.03pm BST Man Utd (4-2-3-1) De Gea; Valencia, Bailly, Jones, Blind; Pogba, Matic; Mkhitaryan, Mata, Rashford; Lukaku.Substitutes: Romero, Smalling, Darmian, Herrera, Fellaini, Lingard, Martial.West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}