Noble misses London derby with injury

Skipper Mark Noble is missing tonight at the London Stadium with a slight hamstring injury.

David Moyes has made two changes with Manuel Lanzini replacing the injured Mark Noble and Angelo Ogbonna returning from injury to replace Fabian Balbuena in the centre of defence to face Frank Lampard’s Chelsea tonight.

The rest of the West Ham team remains the same that started against Spurs with Declan Rice taking the captains armband and Felipe Anderson remaining dropped on the bench.

West Ham United Starting XI: Fabianski, Fredericks, Diop, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Rice (c), Soucek, Fornals, Lanzini, Bowen, Antonio

Subs: Randolph (GK), Johnson, Balbuena, Wilshere, Lewis, Yarmolenko, Felipe Anderson, Xande Silva, Ajeti

The Hammers are being helped tonight with fellow strugglers Bournemouth losing 4-1 to Newcastle and Norwich also losing 4-0 to Arsenal.

Watford already lost to Southampton 3-1 on Sunday.

Bournemouth drops down to 19th place with a goal difference of -24 which is six worse than the Hammers,  Villa remains on the same points as West Ham with a -24 goal difference five worse than the Irons.  West Ham can afford to lose 4-0 to Chelsea tonight and would still stay out of the relegation zone.