West Ham United head into Monday night’s Premier League assembly with Arsenal in determined want of three factors, with David Moyes’ facet at the moment sitting simply above the top-flight relegation zone in sixteenth place.
Indeed, the Hammers’ 2022/23 home marketing campaign has up to now been one largely to neglect, with the Irons having gained 4, drawn two and misplaced 9 of their opening 14 top-flight fixtures this season – selecting up a mere 14 factors.
And, with the east London outfit at the moment on a run of three straight defeats within the league, the 59-year-old will undoubtedly be hoping for his facet to lastly kickstart their league marketing campaign by selecting up a constructive outcome at The Emirates this night.
However, with quite a lot of recent injury considerations to cope with forward of tonight’s assembly with the table-toppers, it seems as if Moyes could should make quite a lot of modifications to the facet that lined up within the 2-0 defeat to Leicester City final day out.
So, simply what number of alterations will the Scot make to his beginning XI towards the Gunners? Here’s how we at Football FanCast suppose West Ham may line up in north London, together with the most recent team and injury news…
Predicted West Ham XI: Fabianski; Johnson, Kehrer, Dawson, Emerson; Rice, Soucek; Fornals, Paqueta, Benrahma; Bowen.
With the likes of Alphonse Areola, Nayef Aguerd, Aaron Cresswell, Maxwel Cornet, Michail Antonio and Gianluca Scamacca all being doubts for the journey to Arsenal, along with Kurt Zouma remaining sidelined because of a knee injury, we predict that Moyes will make three modifications to the facet that fell to defeat towards the Foxes again in November.
Two of those modifications come within the again 5, with Zouma and Cresswell dropping out of the XI because of their aforementioned accidents, with Emerson Palmieri coming in at left-back and Ben Johnson – who Stuart Pearce dubbed “wonderful” – being given the nod at right-back.
Meanwhile, Lukasz Fabianski begins between the sticks and Thilo Kehrer strikes in from the fitting to centre-back, the place he companions Craig Dawson within the coronary heart of the Hammers’ backline.
In midfield, the “unplayable” – within the phrases of Tom Clark – Declan Rice comes straight again into the XI following his World Cup marketing campaign with England alongside Tomas Soucek in the midst of the park, whereas Pablo Fornals begins on the fitting wing, Lucas Paqueta is given the nod within the quantity 10 function and Said Benrahma is let free on the left flank.
Finally, in assault, with each Antonio and Scamacca showing unlikely to be match sufficient to function at The Emirates, Moyes is left with little selection aside from to deploy Jarrod Bowen in a central function.
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