West Ham entertain Leicester City on Saturday, in what will be the final fixture for both sides before Christmas. The Hammers go into the match on a fine run of form, having lost in only one of their last 10 matches – a run which has seen the club rise to a remarkable 4th place in the table.
Leicester on the other hand haven’t won a game since September, and are currently bottom of the table, deep in relegation danger. Therefore, logically this should be a comfortable victory for West Ham, but of course football has a tendency to spring surprises. To try and ensure that no such shock result does take place, here is the starting 11 that West Ham should play. In truth, it pretty much picks itself at this moment in time.
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Click on Big Sam below to reveal the XI the gaffer should choose.
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Congratulations West Ham, as we are just a tiny margin off of the pace. The difference being, in that if we had the penetration to have taken our chances, then we would have been close to the top of the league by now. We just couldn’t get the winners v Villa & Sunderland. Noble missed his 1st penalty v Spurs. He ref robbed us of points v Everton & Sunderland, but it is only the teams with almost unlimited budgets that are above us. I feel we have dropped too many points & still lack a bit of finishing in front of goal for a title challenge, but we must work like mad to at least gain a top 6 finish, so well done, keep up the good work & lets try to up our goal difference v Leicester tomorow eh? COYI
Still don’t understand Nolan in the first 11, why not Valencia up front also (we are at home let them defend we have 2 strong defending mid field players in Song and Kouyte ) or give Zarate a chance behind the top 2 give Downing more room to go left or right.we can bring on Nolan or Jarvis if we want other options later.