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David Moyes has no further injuries with which to cope as the Hammers look to the Emirates and another crucial battle with Arsenal at the weekend.

After losing Ryan Fredericks and Tomas Soucek over recent weeks the manager was delighted to learn from his medical staff this morning that the squad which triumphed over Southampton is fit and ready to go again against the Gooners.

And most will hope the boss sticks with that team which provided  such a fine attacking performance against Saints where Antonio, Haller and Bowen proved the ultimate match winners.

With no further injuries after top level performances against Liverpool and Southampton the squad would not be fearing a trip to 10th placed Arsenal who tonight face Portsmouth n a fifth round FA Cup tie.

The north Londoners haven’t been in the greatest form over the last six PL games having won just two of them in what by their standards has been a lack lustre season.

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Hugh Southon is a lifelong Iron and the founding editor of ClaretandHugh. He is a national newspaper journalist of many years experience and was Bobby Moore's 'ghost' writer during the great man's lifetime. He describes ClaretandHugh as "the Hammers daily newspaper!"

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5 comments

  • David owen says:

    As a West Ham fan for 50 years and read and listen to everyone’s comments I would just like to say that David Moyes was not my choice as a new manager but I would like to give him and the board credit for the business they done in January. We slated David for signing Hugill who was never given a chance which may come back next season and bust onto the scene?? The signings from Pellegrini were poor and that was not the boards fault, be careful what the protesters want because we could of gone into administration if it wasn’t for Gold and Sullivan, they have learnt by the. Pellegrini fiasco and we have to move on. Anderson and Lanzini are flair players but you can’t have both in the same team, to often they both don’t turn up which costs us, we need workers which we all saw on Saturday COYI.

  • LJ says:

    It’s only taken 2 managers and 7 months to realize what we all knew that haller is a striker when played with a partner ,hopefully these last 2 games have given us the confidence to get out of this mess, when soucek is fit I would put him straight in for noble and I think we will have a good chance, noble still has an important roll to play but not starting every game.

  • John Harrison says:

    Suddenly we have a first eleven everyone agrees about, and momentum! Of the players out, only Soucek would go straight back in, hopefully not at the expense of Fornals, who in my opinion is the main reason the team played so well on Saturday. Left back remains a weakness that needs to be fixed in the long term, but Snoddy and Nobes are great to have on the bench as impact subs. Moyes has finally realised that to unleash Haller you need two up front.. 😉

  • The Cat says:

    I’ll take that as great news, especially since losing Soucek recently. I feel a collective surge in confidence, not only because we are out of the relegation zone, but with recent performances, there is now an air of confidence that we CAN give the opposition a game and they won’t be looking forward to playing us now.
    A big part of the game is confidence and psychology, and as the belief seems to be coming back after this win, Moyes, Nolan and the team will not have any trouble lifting them for the Arsenal game. We’ve got these London derbies coming up where we are playing for bragging rights against teams that are also in a rebuilding phase or a team decimated by crucial injuries. That’s my take on it anyway… COYI

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