Pellegrini could be forced to bring in changes

Yesterday Manuel Pellegrini admitted that Mark Noble remains unavailable due to a calf injury while revealing that Felipe Anderson and Sebastien Haller remain serious injury doubts for Saturday after suffering knocks with them not training in the early part of the week.

Should Haller and Anderson both fail fitness tests then Pellegrini would be forced to drastically change his team, there is also a good chance that Aaron Cresswell could lose his place to Arthur Masuaku after a poor performance against Man City.

With all these factors in mind, this is my predicted line-up for Brighton.

Starting XI: Fabianski, Fredericks, Diop, Balbuena, Masuaku, Rice, Wilshere, Fornals, Lanzini, Yarmolenko, Antonio

Bench: Roberto, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Snodgrass, Hernandez, Ajeti, Zabaleta

The Hammers have not beaten Brighton since 2012 when they came away 6-0 winners in the Championship with a hat trick from Ricardo Vaz Te, one from Kevin Nolan, One from Carlton Cole and an own goal.

The last game ended a 2-2 draw at the London Stadium in January this year with Marko Arnautovic scoring both West Ham goals in a space of two minutes after Brighton were up two-nil in the space two minutes.