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West Ham: Areola, Johnson, Dawson, Diop, Cresswell, Rice, Noble (c), Yarmolenko, Benrahma, Vlašić, Antonio
Subs: Fabianski, Randolph, Zouma, Ogbonna, Masuaku, Alese, Baptiste, Král, Souček, Lanzini, Fornals, Bowen

Rapid: Gartler, Aiwu, Greiml, Wimmer, Ullmann, Arase, Petrovic, Grahovac, Knasmullner, Kara, Fountas.
Subs: Unger, Hedl, Ljubicic, Ballo, Schick, Hofmann, Stojkovic, Auer, Grull, Kitagawa.

West Ham are currently a Jekyll and Hyde type of outfit, the club is performing beyond the wildest hopes of long suffering fans and is currently on an upward trajectory on and off the pitch. That is not to say there aren't disgruntled fans, Hammers United being a case in point, but generally there is an air of optimism surrounding the club that has been missing an awfully long time.

Since their arrival from the Czech Republic both Tomas Soucek and Vladimir Coufal have given their all and become firm fan favourites with their do or die antics, however their almost super human performances have come at a cost, with neither player quite hitting the heights that they reached last season.

To be honest, they both look a bit knackered, having played themselves in to the ground for West Ham, they then did exactly the same for their country, in what was a unique season which featured far in excess of the amount of games than would have been normal pre pandemic.