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Jesse Lingard's arrival on loan from Manchester United has raised many eyebrows among Hammers fans with many questioning the wisdom of expensively acquiring another midfielder, albeit a very talented one, as opposed to addressing the need for a back up striker to work alongside or in place of Michail Antonio and his dodgy hamstrings.

We must instantly declare that we in no way condone the use of hallucinogenics in this article, and the above mentioned title has nothing at all to do with mind bending drugs, however Hammers fans might feel that 'something' has been put in the water given the recent run of results!

Palace: Guaita, Ward, Cahill, Kouyate, Mitchell, Townsend, Milivojevic (c), McArthur, Eze, Zaha, Benteke Subs: Butland (GK), van Aanholt, Dann, Ayew, Clyne, McCarthy, Batshuayi, Kelly, Riedewald
West Ham: Fabiański, Coufal, Dawson, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Rice (c), Souček, Bowen, Fornals, Benrahma, Antonio Subs: Randolph (GK), Johnson, Fredericks, Balbuena, Diop, Noble, Lanzini, Yarmolenko, Odubeko