West Ham manager David Moyes has confirmed that a few members of his squad are struggling with knocks as they prepare to welcome Crystal Palace to the London Stadium.
Speaking in his pre-match press conference, Moyes was coy on naming the players who are a doubt for the clash.
There’s a couple of knocks which we need to consider, which is normal for December. A lot of clubs will have players missing games, but in the main hopefully we’re going to be okay.
The manager was also pressed on the possible involvement of Said Benrahma after the Algerian started his first game for the club in Friday’s victory over Leeds United.
Said did a lot of good things for us at Leeds. He’s had to be patient because we’ve been playing well. Let’s see how he goes, we’ll still need to manage him with the amount of games coming up. He’s finding his way but we’ve been really pleased with him.
Wednesday night’s clash will be a chance for the Hammers to exact some revenge on Palace after the south Londoners beat them on both occasions in the league last term.
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No word on the return of Michail Antonio, but it seems unlikely the 30-year-old will be involved from the start for this one.
Moyes will likely be relucant to rush Antonio back too quickly for a second time after he was included against Aston Villa, only to be taken off at half-time and subsequently face another lay-off.
We will have to wait and see which other West Ham players may or may not make the starting XI tomorrow.
