With the all important 2nd leg of the Europa League Cup 1/4 final only days away, David Moyes has a bit of a selection headache for tomorrow's Premier League game against Brentford. With other results going Hammers way it is important that the club try to maintain its push for a top six place while juggling with it's current European obligations.
Aaron Cresswell is banned for the game against Lyon so he will definitely start against the Bees on Sunday, and as Ben Johnson will need to deputise for him on Thursday night it makes perfect sense for Moyes to 'rest' Johnson and select Vladimir Coufal instead.
Coufal is only just returning from a 'complex' injury but surely must get the nod ahead of Ryan Fredericks who himself picked up a knock against Lyon and was run ragged by their play actors! Coufal will be desperate to make the right berth his own again, having been laded by many for his 'brilliant' performances before Juan Mata injured the Czech International's groin, a serious foul for which he escaped sanction entirely.
It should be remembered how highly regarded Vlad was prior to his injury, hopefully he will be able to recreate that form against what will be a very troublesome and determined Brentford side that is already well schooled in the dark arts of play acting and 'strategic' time wasting. -Ed
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i have little confidence in getting a result today
I just feel the over emphasis on what happened thursday night and the players wanting "revenge" for the absurd referee decisions and blatant cheating by Lyon players that there focus will not be 100% on this game and given the results yesterday that would be a mistake.
Despite what Moyes will say i foresee another poor display like the one against the spuds yes the emotion and extra time took the players legs that day but i just have the same feeling we will put in another substandard performance and save it all for Lyon...i very much hope i will be proved wrong and end up with egg on my face but somehow i think not
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One of the most frustrating games of this season was defo Brentford obviously came to west ham for the draw time-wasting 1 min to kick the ball out by Raya missing the ball when the ball boy threw it to the hands of Dasilva and right at the death they took all of the 3 points hope we get our revenge today and the ref battens down on this cheating and we win ugly cant see this being a showpiece
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first prize for pre match analysis to bike ,well summed up mate .
Cheers Burkie
i would of been happy to of been wrong but sadly being proved right does not make me happy