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Having to send a team out devoid of its entire first choice in defence was hard enough, but to then be deprived of your main striker with only a few hours notice made it almost mission impossible for David Moyes West Ham away to Tottingham in the Carabao Cup semi final.

Tottenham: Lloris ©️, Doherty, Sanchez, Dier, Davies, Reguilon, Skipp, Hojbjerg, Lucas Moura, Bergwijn, Kane Subs: Gollini (GK), Royal, Rodon, Tanganga, Winks, Lo Celso, Ndombele, Dele, Son
West Ham: Areola, Ashby, Johnson, Dawson, Diop, Masuaku, Rice ©️, Souček, Lanzini, Vlašić, Bowen Subs: Randolph (GK), Noble, Fornals, Benrahma, Král, Yarmolenko, Baptise, Fredericks, Alese

Sunderland got tonked by Arsenal last night in the Elk Cup 1/4 final at the Emirates Stadium, one player who was conspicuous by his absence was Frederik Alves who is on loan from West Ham, the youngster having been dropped for having a poor attitude during training!

Well, correct us if we are wrong, but the whole point of sending players out on loan is generally to give them game time isn't it? So it is little wonder that Alves is a bit miffed at the miserly amount of playing time allocated to him while at the 'Black Cats'.