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title: "The injury crisis has come at the right time"
canonical: "https://readwestham.com/2016/09/06/injury-crisis-come-right-time/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Louis Parr"
section: "Feature Writers"
published: "2016-09-06T08:50:34Z"
modified: "2016-09-06T08:50:34Z"
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# The injury crisis has come at the right time

An injury crisis is the worst nightmare for any club, and [West Ham](https://readwestham.com/) have certainly started the season with one. A quick glance at the Premier League injury table and you will see the Hammers with a strong lead over any competition, with over half of their first team players missing the first three games.

As a result of this, the start of [West Ham](https://readwestham.com/)’s season hasn’t been ideal with just three points out of a possible nine. However, even if they had their full squad available to them, would the Hammers have fared any different?

[Manchester City](https://readmancity.com/) and [Chelsea](https://readchelsea.com/) away are arguably two of [West Ham](https://readwestham.com/)’s hardest three games this season. To get them out of the way at the start of the season is a bonus and if you could choose any games for your big players to miss, they would be two of them. Would Dimitri Payet have made an impact when we lost 3-1 to [Manchester City](https://readmancity.com/)? Absolutely, but it wouldn’t have been enough to beat the title favourites on their home ground.

The Hammers next two games are [Watford](https://readwatford.com/) at home and [West Brom](https://readwestbrom.com/) away. Payet, Lanzini and Feghouli will have much more of an impact on those games than they would have at Stamford Bridge and the Etihad and they’re two games which [West Ham](https://readwestham.com/) are expected to win. It’s better to have your best players for your must-win games rather than the games which the team is not expected to win even with a full squad.

Having a deeper squad for the next two months is much more important than having one for the first three games, especially when [West Ham’s next six fixtures](https://readwestham.com/2016/09/03/next-six-games-must-wins/) are taking into consideration. Obviously, it’s ideal to not have an injury crisis at any point in the season, but most clubs have one at some point each year, and [West Ham](https://readwestham.com/)’s might just have come at the right time.