100th United goals for in form striker as United lead

Manchester United takes first blood at Old Trafford after relentless pressure on the West Ham United backline, they look to climb up the table to fifth position. The stands erupted as a beautiful run of play lead to the opening goal of the heavily contested fixture. United have remained dominant in the fluidity of the play just like Ten Hag wants.

A beautifully guided header from the left side of the United attack out put them in front courtesy of the in form Marcus Rashford, who keeps scoring week after week. The Englishman was on the receiving end of a beautiful Eriksen cross from the edge of the right-side box. A build that saw United snatch at chances in front of a rigid Hammers defense.

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The goal give united the lead at the break as they look will look to continue from where they stopped in the first half. The game started if with chances missed by both sides with Antony Elanga missing a curl and Ronaldo playing a straight shot into the warm hands of Fabianski. West Ham had chances of their own from the like of Benrahma but the Algerian barely tested De Gea.

Rashford is currently the fastest United player to reach 100th Manchester United goals, ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney. Although it is a slender lead at the break United will be hoping yo increase the tally as soon as possible to deny West Ham any way into the game. David Moyes will be livid at how his side had let the goal in but it is all kudos to Rashford's brilliance.

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This is certainly the only thing Erik Ten Hag will have to worry about should they fail to add more goals to their impressive game so far.