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Recently every time West Ham have had the chance to 'nail on' a European place for next season via the club's Premier League placement, fate and ineffectuality have conspired to blow the situation, none more so than Sunday's inept showing against London rivals Fulham.

There are those who would argue that the travails of playing Leverkusen on the preceding Thursday evening were just too much for what is a wafer thin squad, in a way they would be correct, but why is the squad so limited?

West Ham: Fabianski, Coufal, Mavropanos, Aguerd, Emerson Palmieri, Ward-Prowse, Alvarez, Kudus, Ings, Lucas Paqueta, Antonio Subs: Johnson, Cresswell, Zouma, Cornet, Ogbonna, Soucek, Earthy, Mubama, Anang
Fulham: Leno, Castagne, Adarabioyo, Bassey, Robinson, Joao Palhinha, Lukic, Iwobi, Andreas Pereira, Willian, Rodrigo Muniz Subs: Rodak, Reed, Jimenez, Wilson, Broja, Cairney, Traore, De Cordova-Reid, Diop

Leverkusen: Kovář, Stanišić, Tah ©, Tapsoba, Frimpong, Grimaldo, Palacios, Xhaka, Wirtz, Adli, Schick Subs: Hradecky (GK), Lomb (GK), Hincapié, Kossounou, Andrich, Arthur, Puerta, Hofmann, Tella, Borja Iglesias, Boniface.
West Ham: Fabiański, Coufal, Zouma ©, Mavropanos, Cresswell, Emerson, Souček, Ward-Prowse, Kudus, Paquetá, Antonio Subs: Anang (GK), Knightbridge (GK), Johnson, Ogbonna, Aguerd, Casey, Orford, Earthy, Cornet, Ings, Mubama.