West Ham v Brighton, Tuesday 30th December 7.30 pm

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• Lukerz

  9:27AM

  Areola
  Walker-Peters - Mavropanos - Todibo - Scarles
  Fernandes - Magassa - Paquetá
  Bowen - Wilson - Summerville
• ASLEFshrugged

  9:42AM edited 9:43AM

  Not a lot has happened over the last three weeks but Brighton are now five games without a win, drawing 0-0 at home with Sunderland and losing away at Arsenal and Liverpool since we drew down there
  
  Mitoma has recovered from an ankle injury, got some minutes off the bench against Sunderland and Liverpool but missed the Arsenal match through illness
  
  Milner has also recovered but Webster, March and Tzimas are still injured.
  
  CM Carlos Baleba is away at the AFCON although Brighton fans actually seem relieved he's not there. In his absence local hero Jack Hinshelwood has started three in a row
  
  Hurzeler has been quite consistent with his squad selection but he rested Dunk, van Hecke and Wellbeck against Sunderland, handing starts to back ups Boscagli and Coppola with Rutter playing up front
  
  We've never beaten Brighton at home in the Premier League, out last home win was a 6-0 thrashing back in the 2011/12 Championship with Ricardo Vaz Te scoring a hat trick
  
  Our last home win in the top flight was 5th March 1983, we came back from 1-0 down with goals from Dickens and Cottee
• ASLEFshrugged

  10:15AM

  Wellbeck and Minteh were on the bench against Arsenal, Minteh came on at half time, Wellbeck for the last 15 minutes so likely to start
  
  Brighton also started with a back three but that's the first time Hurzeler has changed from his 4-2-3-1, unlikely he'll be so cautious against us
• WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

  11:03AM

  Loss
  
  Brighton are winless in 5 and we always love disrupting these kind of runs
  
  Maybe there is a player who hasn't score for 150 games or so, would put money on them to do it vs us
• Pengeman

  12:49PM

  Lukerz said:

  Areola
  Walker-Peters - Mavropanos - Todibo - Scarles
  Fernandes - Magassa - Paquetá
  Bowen - Wilson - Summerville

  Paqueta is an enigma and an inconsistent player. He is liable to give the ball away in dangerous positions and is most likely to be booked for petty fouls and theatrics. Maybe he mistakenly believes that he is indispensable. He hasn't done much lately and ought to be benched. Scarles has struggled for a long time. I think Kilman (and Igor too) can play left back.
  So my preferred team would be
  
  Areola
  Walker-Peters - Mavropanos - Todibo - Kilman
  Magassa - Potts
  Fernandes
  Bowen - Wilson - Summerville
  
  I would like to see Guilherme on the bench. Hopeful of getting the first EPL home win against Brighton.
• jay_in_cpt

  12:59PM

  Summerville IMO has been woeful
• Lukerz

  1:16PM edited 1:18PM

  I don’t know if we need Potts & Magassa in the same side, for a home game we need to win.
• ASLEFshrugged

  1:30PM edited 1:32PM

  Summerville has been poor when we've played him as a sort of striker in a front two with Bowen but he's been a lot better when played him on the left with Wilson up front
  
  Kilman started out as a left back for Maidenhead in the National League but switched to centre back 2017/18. Last time he played there was Wolves v Arsenal February 2021, they won 2-1 and he did okay by all accounts although Arsenal were down to 10 men by half time then had Leno sent off in the 2nd half
  
  Igor actually played left back in the Carabao Cup against Oxford before he joined us and 14 times in the previous two seasons so he might be a better option
  
  Guilherme could be having a medical in Lisbon tomorrow
• steve

  2:40PM

  Got a new Hammers shirt and Sweater yesterday .So will wear both tomorrow .Win the game and start the upturn to safety .Your welcome
• buffybegood

  4:58PM

  jay_in_cpt said:

  Summerville IMO has been woeful

  For me it's either Paqueta or Summerville at left forward, Wilson in the middle and Bowen on the right. There's pluses and minuses with both of them, but one of them needs to play there. I suspect Summerville will be on the bench, as his speed could have more of an impact late on.
  
  
• Lukerz

  5:09PM

  Considering the impact he had at Forest when we won 0-3, I am surprised he has offered nothing since.