West Ham v Brighton, Tuesday 30th December 7.30 pm

buffybegoodbuffybegood
edited 8:48AM in Match Threads
Our final match of 2025, a year which has seen us play under 3 different managers and has us currently languishing in 18th place in the Premier League with relegation, if not quite a certainty, a very real possibility. 3 points here would be huge before matches against Wolves, without a win so far this season, and Forest, the team we're desperately trying to overtake to get out of the bottom 3.

Over to you ASLEF.

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  • LukerzLukerz
    Areola
    Walker-Peters - Mavropanos - Todibo - Scarles
    Fernandes - Magassa - Paquetá
    Bowen - Wilson - Summerville
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    edited 9:43AM
    Not a lot has happened over the last three weeks but Brighton are now five games without a win, drawing 0-0 at home with Sunderland and losing away at Arsenal and Liverpool since we drew down there

    Mitoma has recovered from an ankle injury, got some minutes off the bench against Sunderland and Liverpool but missed the Arsenal match through illness

    Milner has also recovered but Webster, March and Tzimas are still injured.

    CM Carlos Baleba is away at the AFCON although Brighton fans actually seem relieved he's not there. In his absence local hero Jack Hinshelwood has started three in a row

    Hurzeler has been quite consistent with his squad selection but he rested Dunk, van Hecke and Wellbeck against Sunderland, handing starts to back ups Boscagli and Coppola with Rutter playing up front

    We've never beaten Brighton at home in the Premier League, out last home win was a 6-0 thrashing back in the 2011/12 Championship with Ricardo Vaz Te scoring a hat trick

    Our last home win in the top flight was 5th March 1983, we came back from 1-0 down with goals from Dickens and Cottee
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    Wellbeck and Minteh were on the bench against Arsenal, Minteh came on at half time, Wellbeck for the last 15 minutes so likely to start

    Brighton also started with a back three but that's the first time Hurzeler has changed from his 4-2-3-1, unlikely he'll be so cautious against us
  • WHU_Champo_league_in_7_yearsWHU_Champo_league_in_7_years
    Loss

    Brighton are winless in 5 and we always love disrupting these kind of runs

    Maybe there is a player who hasn't score for 150 games or so, would put money on them to do it vs us
  • PengemanPengeman
    Lukerz said:

    Areola
    Walker-Peters - Mavropanos - Todibo - Scarles
    Fernandes - Magassa - Paquetá
    Bowen - Wilson - Summerville

    Paqueta is an enigma and an inconsistent player. He is liable to give the ball away in dangerous positions and is most likely to be booked for petty fouls and theatrics. Maybe he mistakenly believes that he is indispensable. He hasn't done much lately and ought to be benched. Scarles has struggled for a long time. I think Kilman (and Igor too) can play left back.
    So my preferred team would be

    Areola
    Walker-Peters - Mavropanos - Todibo - Kilman
    Magassa - Potts
    Fernandes
    Bowen - Wilson - Summerville

    I would like to see Guilherme on the bench. Hopeful of getting the first EPL home win against Brighton.
  • jay_in_cptjay_in_cpt
    Summerville IMO has been woeful
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited 1:18PM
    I don’t know if we need Potts & Magassa in the same side, for a home game we need to win.
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    edited 1:32PM
    Summerville has been poor when we've played him as a sort of striker in a front two with Bowen but he's been a lot better when played him on the left with Wilson up front

    Kilman started out as a left back for Maidenhead in the National League but switched to centre back 2017/18. Last time he played there was Wolves v Arsenal February 2021, they won 2-1 and he did okay by all accounts although Arsenal were down to 10 men by half time then had Leno sent off in the 2nd half

    Igor actually played left back in the Carabao Cup against Oxford before he joined us and 14 times in the previous two seasons so he might be a better option

    Guilherme could be having a medical in Lisbon tomorrow
  • stevesteve
    Got a new Hammers shirt and Sweater yesterday .So will wear both tomorrow .Win the game and start the upturn to safety .Your welcome
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