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Injuries were always going to take their toll sooner or later on Hammers wafer thin squad, the fact that it has stumbled through thus far is testimony to the huge amount of work put in on the training ground and the high levels of fitness instilled in this current David Moyes West Ham United team.

West Ham: Fabianski, Johnson, Zouma, Dawson, Cresswell, Soucek, Rice, Lanzini, Benrahma, Antonio, Fornals. Subs: Areola, Yarmolenko, Noble, Diop, Fredericks, Masuaku, Kral, Oko-Flex, Perkins.
Villa: Martinez, Cash, Chambers, Mings, Digne, Luiz, McGinn, Ramsey, Coutinho, Ings, Watkins. Subs: Olsen, Konsa, Sanson, Buendia, Traore, Young, Bailey, Chukwuemeka, Iroegbunam.

The fact that Jarrod Bowen has become an essential cog in David Moyes' West Ham machine is testimony as to the benefit of due diligence when it come to player acquisitions, then he first arrived from Hull Bowen was far from the finished article he is today.

Fans bemoaned how infrequently Moyes used his new signing and questioned why the club had signed him if the manager didn't want to play him. Bowen is now one of the first names on the manager's starting line up, so the policy of 'drip feeding' him into the team bit by bit worked eventually.