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West Ham: Alphonse Areola (GK), Jamal Baptiste, Emmanuel Longelo, Sonny Perkins, Harrison Ashby, Ajibola Alese, Mark Noble (c) , Alex Král, Andriy Yarmolenko, Pablo Fornals, Nikola Vlašić.
Subs: Darren Randolph, David Martin, Vladimir Coufal, Arthur Masuaku, Issa Diop, Manuel Lanzini, Said Benrahma, Keenan Forson ,Freddie Potts, Kamarai Swyer.

Word reaching us from Hammers 'goose green' training ground is that David Moyes will make wholesale changes from the team that vanquished London rivals Chelsea at the weekend, that 3-2 victory came at considerable cost as both Ben Johnson and Kurt Zouma picked up bad injuries.

As tonight's UEFA Europa League Cup game is essentially a dead rubber, given that Hammers have already topped their Group and have automatically moved to the last 16 stage, there has been a clamour for David Moyes to select a team almost entirely comprising of youth players.

Who would have thought it a couple of years ago? If someone had told you that Hammers, then deeply embroiled in a relegation battle, might well be facing up to the mighty and legendary Barcelona in an 'elite' European Cup Competition, you might have thought that they needed sectioning under the mental health act!