Sunday evening at seven o’clock is no time for a football match and so perhaps you could sympathise with David de Gea, whose laboured attempt to deal with Said Benrahma’s pea-roller here looked that of a man incapacitated by a full roast dinner and plenty of trimmings.
The mistake may yet come to haunt Manchester United in a top-four race that suddenly looks alive again, but tonight, it will be the toast of east London, having all-but assured West Ham’s Premier League survival.
