West Ham v Manchester United 02/1/17 k/o 17.15 SS1

Cantona's Collars

West Ham v Manchester United: Team news

West Ham will check on Mark Noble after the midfielder came off against Leicester on Saturday.

The skipper was forced off after a strong tackle from Daniel Amartey and boss Slaven Bilic admitted he is likely to be a doubt for the visit of Manchester United.

Sam Byram started training last week after an ankle problem, but was not in the squad for the 1-0 defeat at Leicester, while Gokhan Tore (knee), Reece Oxford (ankle) and Simone Zaza (knee) are unavailable.

Manchester United will be without Eric Bailly as he heads to the African Nations Cup.

United asked the Ivory Coast to allow the defender to join them 24 hours late but their appeal fell on deaf ears.

Michael Carrick has a chance of returning in midfield after missing the win over Middlesbrough with illness but Wayne Rooney is unlikely to be back from thigh trouble.

Teams:

West Ham (from): Randolph, Adrian, Collins, Ogbonna, Reid, Kouyate, Masuaku, Antonio, Cresswell, Noble, Obiang, Quina, Fernandes, Nordtveit, Payet, Feghouli, Ayew, Carroll, Fletcher.

Manchester United (from): De Gea, Romero, Valencia, Fosu-Mensah, Jones, Smalling, Rojo, Darmian, Shaw, Blind, Young, Fellaini, Carrick, Herrera, Schweinsteiger, Pogba, Lingard, Mata, Mkhitaryan, Martial, Rashford, Ibrahimovic.

Stats:

West Ham are unbeaten in their last four Premier League meetings with Manchester United (W1 D3) - they've never gone five games unbeaten them in their English league history.
Manchester United lost away at West Ham last season, in the last ever game at the Boleyn Ground - they've not lost consecutive away games against West Ham since December 2007.
Slaven Bilic could become only the second manager to remain unbeaten in his first four Premier League encounters with the Red Devils (Ruud Gullit the other).
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has scored three goals in Manchester United's two previous encounters with West Ham this season (One in Premier League, Two in EFL Cup).
Anthony Martial has scored five goals in his last four appearances against West Ham in all competitions.

vicwatson

COYI, should be a good one

limnam

Hope Carrick makes it.

Mou had a decent game against Boro but I feel we missed Carrick badly.

Would like to see a return of Jones and Rojo in the center

West Ham blow so hot and cold. It wouldn't surprise me to see them get a result. It also wouldn't shock me to see Utd beat them easily as they are hitting good form.

limnam

RoboKlopp wrote: »

West Ham blow so hot and cold. It wouldn't surprise me to see them get a result. It also wouldn't shock me to see Utd beat them easily as they are hitting good form.

Yera tbh they were unlucky against the champions they deserved more from that game. Hopefully they blow cold and we romp home with a straight forward victory

duffman13

limnam wrote: »

Yera tbh they were unlucky against the champions they deserved more from that game. Hopefully they blow cold and we romp home with a straight forward victory

The last game I watched them play was against Hull and they were awful, Hull hit the post 3 times and should have won very very comfortably, a dodgy penalty gifted them a 1-0 win. Martial could cause them all sorts of problems today so I hope he or Rashford starts for a bit of pace in the side.

Jayop

I hope we score more goals than them and as a result get the three points on offer.

Potential Underachiever

I anticipate a routine win for Utd. They're on a nice run, confidence is flowing, I think they'll enjoy the wide open spaces compared to the more compact hostile Upton/Boleyn they used to play at.

Team news

https://twitter.com/ManUtd/status/815954560737013760

Strongest team bar Lingard but has been doing well since the City game when given chances by Jose.
He's rotating the squad well and giving plenty of chances to the youth.

Martial will feature if the game isn't going our way.

Lovely Bloke

Carrick back = stroll time

United by two or three

Hammer Archer

You'd swear there was only one United playing in this game.

Lovely Bloke

Hammer Archer wrote: »

You'd swear there was only one United playing in this game.

Stop whinging, no regular SF posters would ever refer to WHU as "United"

limnam

Hammer Archer wrote: »

You'd swear there was only one United playing in this game.

There is.....

Jayop

Hammer Archer wrote: »

You'd swear there was only one United playing in this game.

No one calls your team United really. The hammers is what you even call yourself. We always just refer to united as united. It's not something intended to cause offense.

Jayop

Must win game now after the Liverpool result.

jimmytwotimes 2013

Niall Quinn going all out with his 'United are a ship' analogy there. Good man Niall, you might go down with a ship someday

Potential Underachiever

Mata looking in from the periphery again...

Jayop

Cacking it here.

Jayop

Really like that bubbles song.

Jayop

Well done Tony.

Jayop

Very poor start from United.

Good save!
West Ham doing well

LuckyGent88

Cut open there. West ham much quicker to settle into this game.

wanderer100

Not a great start

Hammer Archer

Jayop wrote: »

No one calls your team United really. The hammers is what you even call yourself. We always just refer to united as united. It's not something intended to cause offense.

Yes, people do call us "United". And we generally call ourselves Irons, not Hammers.

Jayop

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Yes, people do call us "United". And we generally call ourselves Irons, not Hammers.

Ok so if you generally call yourself irons then you can understand people not referring to you as united in here.

It's a bit of a small thing to be getting annoyed about.


Anyway, good start for the irons so far.

Liam McPoyle

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Yes, people do call us "United". And we generally call ourselves Irons, not Hammers.

Does it matter in any way whatsoever?

Anyway, WHU having the better of it so far.

Midfield seems to be very crowded.

Jayop

Ffs play the ball Darmian.

The Talking Bread

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Yes, people do call us "United". And we generally call ourselves Irons, not Hammers.

Oh, come on! Maybe the odd person but 99% of your fans would not refer to WH as "United" !

wanderer100

Red card

Liam McPoyle

What the hell happened there?

LuckyGent88

Wow.

Shocking decision really. Both going for the ball

Get up Jones
Lol red

IamtheWalrus

Type of fixture MU lose 1-0.

Jayop

Wow. Didn't even think he was going to give a free.

Mars Bar

Ehm, what happened there!?

That's not a red

sky88

Jaysus that was never a red

Johner

Joke.

Cantona's Collars

No red card.Once more the ref in a United game fooks up.

Toobz

Not a red card, hope Jones is ok.

Liam McPoyle

That's an awful decision, Jones was the worse of the two.

Andersonisgod

That's surely a contender for worst decision of the season.

Tom.D.BJJ

5050 challenge. Terrible by the referee

Johner

Mike Dean is an absolute joke.

niallo27

Why is Jones holding the front of his shin.

rob316

dreadful decision. it's a 50 50 challenge

wanderer100

Referees are hilarious nowadays

Jayop

Awful decision

upandcumming

Tight even a free.

PhlegmyMoses

Mike Dean is al ways trying to impose himself on the game. Unreal decision