Aaron Cresswell is feeling fine and entirely at home with a new plan.
After an extended period on the sidelines followed by a suspension Cressie remains in remarkably good spirits.
Talking to the official site he said: “I am enjoying the new system. It’s nice to get forward in that formation, trying to create and get up the field to get the ball in the box, it suits me.
“I was saying to the fitness coach and the physio that I’m feeling better than Wednesday night. It takes time, you can do all the training in the world but you can’t beat getting minutes on the pitch.
“The knee feels good and I am looking forward to the next few games.”
The Hammers will be looking to build on recent home victories against Sunderland and Chelsea and with Stoke just above them in the table, some reports have suggested it is a must-win game for the Hammers.
But Cresswell strongly disagrees with that theory and says his side have already taken big steps to turn their season around and will be hoping for another big victory in front of their own fans.
He said: “Stoke is not a must win game. Of course we want to win it but it is not must win.
“We don’t deserve to label it that because we have had some good results recently and been on a good run.
“We just need to get back to that again this weekend.”
These journalists, I saw them interviewing Koeman last week and trying to get him to say West Ham was a must win game, they were sitting on 15 points, … back on topic Saturday isn’t a must win it’s a should win, hopefully Slav will put out a team that can do just that COYI !!!!