Brighton is as hard as Everton and our record there is very poor. Their captain Dunk is suspended for this game after his red card last game round. Can West Ham break the dreadful winless runs? West Ham should have Rice and Ogbonna back and Dawson's mistake last game round could make way for Ogbonna. Hope Cressie will be OK once his scanned is done. I don't expect Lanzini will be back until next season. Need to be more clinical in attack and cut down defending errors as we need at least 3 wins from our remaining 3 games to reach 4th to 6th place as Liverpool, Everton are breathing very closely behind and Spuds as well.
Squad:
Fabianski
Coufal
Diop
Ogbonna
Cresswell (Johnson if Cressie not passed fit)
Soucek
Rice
Fornals
Lingard
Benrahma
Antonio
We need to do better and stop that frustrating winless runs against minnow team, Brighton.
COYI
"I am always correct", but "if I am wrong", please refer to the first phrase.
Will we ever be given a better chance. Dunk and Maupay both suspended. Brighton won't sit back and that suits us, so we should be able to get back on track. Hopefully Declan will be back, we really missed his leadership versus Brighton and his presence would mean Soucek will able to 'ghost' forward for more goals hopefully.
Benrahma to make way, I still don't see his value; did nothing versus Everton aprt from give the ball away and miss our best chance when totally unmarked!
Against Burnley he was good - against everton woeful.
But his "run of games", namely 2 in a row, have come in Ramadan.
How can elite sportsman perform with that restriction? We all know its about marginal gains at the top level. Off by 5% and you are championship not Premier League.
His choice but does it effect his impact? Only he and the staff will know I guess.
