Adrian San Miguel
The Spanish stopper has been in good form this season – as he has been generally throughout his West Ham career, so picking him for this fixture is a no-brainer. His importance to the side was recently underlined by the excellent save to deny Connor Wickham near the end of the recent match against Sunderland, which bagged a vital point. Adrian will be hoping to keep his fourth clean sheet of the campaign against a side that have been struggling for goals.
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.