Carroll holds key to unlock trouble for Foxes
More immediately I want to see a change in formation and approach tomorrow at Leicester and it will take more than words to make it happen.
Quite simply West Ham have become far too predictable and easy to deal with over recent games – the results show it.
David Moyes must change and not only from an ultra defensive mindset but in where he positions personnel to do key jobs – and the the first of those is down the right side where Edi Fernandes has been appalling.
Here’s where I’m gonna run into trouble because for me the only person he can change that for him for is Marko who has operated very reasonably down on the right in the past, linking well with Manu Lanzini.
With Andy Carroll fit and Masuaku and Cresswell able to provide an aerial supply line from the left and Arnie from the right we will carry a totally unexpected and probably unplanned for offensive weapon.
We have to do something different as I imagine all week the Foxes have been working out how to deal with loan raider Arnie when the game kicks off tomorrow.
All of this of course means that David Moyes has to change and doing something unpredictable, dramatic and outside of his comfort zone so I ‘m not holding my breath.
I hope I’m wrong and that the dour Scot manages to shake off all negative and predictable thinking as we bid to finally end our relegation anxieties and seriously confuse Leicester City’s thinking tomorrow.
However, here’s the side I expect him to pick: Hart; Zaba, Rice, Oggy, Cresswell, Masuaku, Noble, Fernandes, Kouyate, Lanzini, Arnautovic
CandH team: Adrian, Zaba, Rice, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Masuaku, Arnautovic, Noble, Kouyate, Lanzini, Carroll.