Manchester United suffer 17th Premier League defeat of season against West Ham

Europa League finalists Manchester United’s embarrassing Premier League campaign continued as fellow strugglers West Ham celebrated a first top-flight win at Old Trafford since 2007.

Ruben Amorim’s side came into Sunday’s game buoyed by securing their place in the make-or-break Bilbao showpiece against Tottenham with Thursday’s 4-1 victory against Athletic Bilbao, completing an impressive 7-1 semi-final triumph.

But United have failed to carry their European form onto the domestic front, with their worst-ever Premier League season continuing as Tomas Soucek and Jarrod Bowen sealed West Ham a memorable 2-0 victory on the road.

The East Londoners ended an eight-game winless run by securing their first league victory at Old Trafford since Carlos Tevez struck 18 years ago.

The result in 2007 represented a blip for that season’s champions, whereas this was United’s 17th league loss and ninth at home, of a historically bad campaign for a side that have now gone seven top-flight matches with a win.

Graham Potter’s Hammers usurped the Red Devils with the win, leaving Amorim’s men a lowly 16th with two Premier League games to go either side of the Europa League final against 17th-placed Tottenham.

Silverware and Champions League qualification await the victor in Bilbao, where defender Leny Yoro’s availability appears in doubt after limping off early in the second half.

That injury underlined why Amorim made six changes on Sunday, when United wore special shirts featuring the logo of charitable organisation (RED) to help raise funds and awareness for the global fight against health injustice.

Amad Diallo was among those brought in and began his first start in three months well, cutting back for Bruno Fernandes to strike over