Duo’s return good timing for the Irons

Tomas Soucek and Kurt Zouma look certain to return for the highly important Premier League fixture at Old Trafford this weekend.

The opposition will be looking to score what would be a massive victory over us given the relative league positions but the duo’s return is perfect timing for the Hammers.

We sit in fourth place with 37 points from 22 games whilst they have two games in hand on us with 32 from 20 so the stakes could be very high in terms of top four positioning at the end of the season.

It will be interesting to see who Moyes rests for this game following a Leeds scrap when one or two didn’t do themselves justice.

Soucek’s return from covid is clearly a big plus and after three goals conceded from what looked a weary central defensive partnership we will all be enormously pleased to see Zouma return.

This may be a good time to visit Old Trafford whose last four Premier League games have seen them draw at Newcastle, beat Burnley and be defeated by Wolves before Villa’s big fightback for a draw in their last game.

This may well be how the Hammers line up in a game:

Fabianski; Coufal, Zouma, Dawson, Cresswell, Rice, Soucek; Bowen, Lanzini, Fornals, Antonio.