Cornet is on the bench
David Moyes has made six changes for tonight’s second leg game against AEK Larnaca.
As the manager revealed yesterday Gianluca Scamacca starts along with Ben Johnson, Angelo Ogbonna, Aaron Cresswell, Manuel Lanzini and Pablo Fornals, the other changes from a 1-1 draw with Aston Villa on Sunday.
Emerson, Thilo Kehrer, Nayef Aguerd, Saïd Benrahma and Danny Ings are omitted as a result as the Irons look for a last eight place..
Alongside the returning Cresswell, Johnson and Ogbonna is Kurt Zouma and the club’s most most-capped player in Europe, Fornals returns to the starting XI and will lead the support of Scamacca alongside Jarrod Bowen and Lanzini. Paquetá and Tomáš Souček complete the midfield.
The Academy of Football is well represented in the matchday squad with midfielder Freddie
Maxwel Cornet will also be looking to play in a third successive match from the bench having made his Premier League return against Villa.
West Ham United: Areola, Johnson, Zouma, Ogbonna ©, Cresswell, Souček, Paquetá, Lanzini, Bowen, Fornals, Scamacca
Subs: Hegyi (GK), Anang (GK), Aguerd, Benrahma, Cornet, Ings, Kehrer, Emerson, Rice, Laing, Mubama, Potts