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Tuesday evening's hard fought, but ultimately unsuccessful, FA Cup 5th round cup tie against Manchester United unfortunately highlighted West Ham United's paucity of strikers, with Big Mich Antonio 'rested' and his 'replacement' Andriy Yarmolenko looking like a fish out of water as he tried to lead the line. The Ukraine international endured a torrid time before leaving the field with ligament injuries that could see him side lined for the rest of the season.

Manchester: Henderson, Wan-Bissaka, Lindelof, Maguire, Telles, Matic, Fred, Van de Beek, Greenwood, Martial, Rashford Subs: Grant, Shaw, Tuanzebe, B.Williams, Fernandes, James, McTominay, Amad, Cavani
West Ham: Fabiański, Coufal, Dawson, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Rice, Souček, Bowen, Noble, Fornals, Yarmolenko Subs: Trott, Fredericks, Johnson, Diop, Balbuena, Alves, Lanzini, Benrahma, Odubeko

The consequences of standing by one's convictions are that sometimes you have to pay the price, West Ham manager David Moyes decided to buck an old Hammers tradition of buying overpriced has beens just to keep people happy in the short term. This 'positive' way forward does however come with the caveat that in the short term, David Moyes has only one recognised striker who's services he can call upon, and of course that striker isn't actually a bona fide one, Michail Antonio is essentially a winger who David Moyes helped turn in to a front man feared by opposition defenders.