West Ham United’s first Premier League team has been chosen by Head Coach Julen Lopetegui, and there are two PL debuts. From a squad with just Edson Alvarez absent through his hamstring injury, the Hammers’ Spanish coach has selected Kilman and Rodriguez from the Irons’ Summer signings in the starting eleven to take on Aston Villa.
Amongst a layer of rule changes in the Premier League, (check them out in full here), time will be added on in a different manner to previous years, so ‘Fergie Time’ is likely to be a lot shorter.
Also remember that five substitutes can be used in each game now, so having a strong bench becomes more of an asset than in previous years.
The full team is the same which featured in last week’s Betway Cup.
Areola *Coufal *Kilman *Mavropanos *Emerson *Soucek *Rodriguez *Paqueta *Kudus *Bowen (c) *Antonio
West Ham v Aston Villa
New Signings Todibo, Summerville, Wan Bissaka and Fullkrug are substitutes named in what is a pretty strong bench: Interestingly, Andy Irving makes the bench and could also be in line for a PL debut. No Place for Guilherme though..
Not the eleven I’d have started with but I’ve not seen performances in training and don’t know about fitness levels, degrees of integration and knocks.
Look at the bench though there’s a luxury of options there, anyone who underperforms and they’re out of there.
Mavropanos starting though… worried now
Todibo has to be a stronger option all other things being equal. It’s notable that Aguerd hasn’t made the squad.
Two sendings off and one big injury in today’s other games so far. Start the game off with nothing too radical. Don’t get too emotional. It’s a long season.
Yes I saw that, it must have been a big injury as Forest security were holding up screens.
I’m.no manager but not the 11 I would of started
Simon how long ago was it when you were reminded not to consider it was possibly beneficial that ALVAREZ picked up a serious injury on international duty.
Disappointed that not 1 youngster makes the bench.
sorry but JLo as got this game wrong Antonio needs out as does Coufal plus Dino & to bring on Ings what aload of ****
Same old same old
Spanish moyes
And all you pundits set us up to a frenzy which we stupidly swallow when we were set up to fail
Same chap over and over again
Wrong choice starting Antonio.
If he stays general opinion is use hiim as a super sub for last 20-30 minutes.