Man United vs Newcastle LIVE: Premier League latest score, goals and updates as Zirkzee booed off by own fans

Joelinton wins a free-kick and Newcastle squander the chance to trouble Onana – haven’t really had the fluency in their play over the last 15 minutes either side of the interval.

Hojlund escapes his man in the box and tees up an Amad shot but Tonali makes the block.

More reason for optimism for the home fans since the restart but no big chances for them and nothing for Dubravka to worry about.

Antony, Rashford and Garnacho are all on the bench for United.

The home team have played far more aggressively and on the front foot since the restart. A good cross from Mazraoui on the right sees Schar forced into an awkward clearance behind for a corner under pressure. Eriksen’s corner goes through everyone – could have been a tap-in if a red shirt was in place. Newcastle need to heed the warnings here.

Back underway and no further changes but both managers probably had plenty to say. Eddie Howe may have had a few words on concentration and not letting things drift, after that final five minutes of the first half.

Manchester United fans booed and jeered their own player on Monday night, as Joshua Zirkzee bore the brunt of supporters’ displeasure during a dismal first half against Newcastle United.

The Red Devils had been thoroughly outplayed and were 2-0 down on home soil to the Magpies, with another strike ruled out for offside and Newcastle also striking the woodwork in a woefully one-sided first half.

That prompted Ruben Amorim to turn to his subs bench after just 32 minutes, with Zirkzee replaced by Kobbie Mainoo in an attempt to beef up the centre of the pitch, where the hosts had been second best by a long distance.

Zirkzee immediately faced extremely loud cheers at the decision to remove him, followed by an equally loud round of boos as he left the pitch. The Dutch attacker didn’t take his place to sit on the bench, but immediately appeared to don a coat and depart towards the tunnel – only to reappear a few minutes later.

During his half-hour or so on the pitch, Zirkzee managed just 14 touches of the ball, completed three passes and won one free-kick, but had no impact in terms of creating or taking shots.

One late chance for United – Mainoo frees Casemiro in the box but his first-time shot is curled well wide. He had time there, not a great effort. Let-off for Newcastle after Schar gave the ball away – but the whistle goes and it’s 2-0 to the visitors at the interval.

Half time, Newcastle well in control. Another loud chorus of boos from the home fans as the whistle goes.

Richard Jolly’s latest: “A dreadful first half for Manchester United. The mixture of cheers and boos when Joshua Zirkzee was hauled off after half an hour are a sign of what the crowd think of him. It is hard to see how he can come back from that, or how United can come back in this game.”

Two shots and two touches in the box for Man United in this first half. They simply haven’t been at it in the slightest.

Well the good news for Manchester United is that with five minutes to go until half time, they are 2-0 down.

And yes, that’s good news – it should be three at a minimum, it could easily be five, and they’ll soon have 15 minutes to sort things out a bit.

Ruben Amorim has a massive job on his hands to get them back in the game – Eddie Howe must want more of the same. They are swarming United at will, until about five minutes ago.

Richard Jolly’s scathing and accurate assessment of the hosts:

“Utter dominance from Newcastle, utterly awful from Manchester United. Ruben Amorim’s team are being overrun in midfield – no surprise when it is Casemiro and Christian Eriksen against Sandro Tonali, Bruno Guimaraes and Joelinton – and their five defenders are struggling to defend. Neither goal reflected well on Lisandro Martinez, who isn’t exactly looking an inspired choice to captain the team in Bruno Fernandes’ absence. Newcastle could score six or seven here.”

Joshua Zirkzee has just been given whatever the absolute rock bottom opposite is to a standing ovation – the most vicious, vociferous booing and jeering by his own supporters as he’s subbed off for Kobbie Mainoo.

This Man United team is “the absolute worst pound for pound football team in the country, bar none,” says Gary Neville.

Moments later Hojlund is played in for a first sight of goal at last and can only clip his shot past the far post.

The ball’s in the net again – but the offside flag is up this time. We’ve seen this kind of thing before given: basically a Schar shot is deflected into his path by a United defender, so Isak – way offside in normal terms – plays on and absolutely blams it top corner. But the flag is up and the ref sides with his assistant.

One minute later and Newcastle are so close to a brilliant third, passing straight through United’s back three with some amazing one-touch football – Tonali gets past Onana but thunders a shot onto the post from close-range. Amorim isn’t waiting around, he’s making a sub soon.

United have been utterly woeful.