With 194 Claret and Hugh readers voting in the people’s choice starting XI the results are now in for Tuesday’s game against Southampton.
Fabianski is in goal with an impressive 190 votes.
The backline consists of Aaron Cresswell 182 votes, Angelo Ogbonna 190 votes, Fabian Balbuena 178 votes, Vladimir Coufal 187 votes and Ben Johnson 82 votes.
Arthur Masuaku remains out injured.
Issa Diop 33 votes, Ryan Fredericks 4 votes and Craig Dawson 0 votes all fail to make the grade
Declan Rice gets an impressive near-maximum 193 votes and looks odds-on to captain to Hammers but Tomas Soucek does one better on 194 votes.
In midfield is Yarmolenko 166 votes, Manuel Lanizi 138 votes and Jarrod Bowen with 139 votes
Said Benrahma 126 votes Haller 47 votes, Robert Snodgrass 15 votes, Pablo Fornals 59 votes, Michail Antonio 69 votes and Mark Noble 1 vote all fail to make the cut.
West Ham Starting XI Fabianksi, Cresswell, Balbuena, Ogbonna, Johnson, Coufal, Rice, Soucek, Lanzini, Bowen, Yarmolenko
Subs: Randolph, Snodgrass, Fredericks, Haller, Noble, Fornals, Diop
That is the exact team I would have chosen. Yarmolenko as striker, lanzini on the left Bowen on the right, rice and Souchek in the middle, five at the back. This gives you the option to change to a back four at any point in the game by taking off Johnson and bringing on benrahma. You then go to a back four put benrahma on the left wing, and move lanzini into the middle as an attacking midfielder playing off the striker. If Bowen not performing or feeling his knock then you can bring on snodgrass. If rice or Souchek get injured you bring on Noble. If coufal not performing or looks tired you bring on Fredericks. If Yarmolenko not doing it you bring on Haller. The team picks itself really.
Read my mind.