Andy Carroll faces a fitness test ahead of tomorrow afternoon’s clash at Manchester City.
David Moyes will leave a decision on the starting line up as late as possible and Diafra Sakho looks likely to get the shout if Carroll is unavailable.
Moyes has included three youngsters in the squad for the Etihad – – Declan Rice, Domingos Quina and Toni Martinez -as the manager looks for a miracle result over the league leaders.
With injury problems at the back however, it looks likely that Cheik Kouyate will be drafted into central defence alongside Angelo Ogbonna.
And that would mean a recall for Mark Noble who has missed the last two games asMoyes has looked for more pace in the middle of the park.
Michael Antonio is now fully fit and looks set to start in his natural right wing role with Andre Ayew set for a spot on the bench along with Mark Arnautovich.
I think we need to play a back 3 badly.
Zab Cheik Ogbonna
Or Rice tho could Play Rice in mid too Zab as well & Fernandes RWB
I just hope that some of these enforced changes show an improved team performance.We always here in nearly every sport .whos fault is it?players or manager?.Most of these players have had enough chances to sort it out but still make the same,basic mistakes so as a manager surely you have to swing the axe and make changes and hopefully find an answer or dig out a gem who has been on the sidelines.
I reckon Man City might declare at thr end of the First Half and put West Ham in to bat!
😂 I’ve sent some superglue for the corks jimbo recommended ? The thing is a cork up nobles exhaust on the v12 means he doesn’t get out of the centre circle bless him ? 😎
I’m with you JRS on 3 c/b,s we seem to be better balanced with the squad we have !
If and its a big if we can knock balls behind their press we could cause some problems but we need 2 up top draging them around , sakho will do that with Martinez or ayew but the 5 in m/f will need to graft their nuts off ! That’s where the big if comes in 😉 its probably going to be a long 90 mins if we conceded early ? Coyi !!!!😀
Nice one Michael Miller lol. We are going to need a lot of gallows humour over the next 6 months – and beyond.