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There was a time when Manuel Pellegrini used to do his obligatory pre-match presser for the Barclays Premier League with hopeful references as to when one of his highest earners would be fit enough to play, Pellegrini has gone now but the player in question is still at the club, drawing an enormous salary and will be beginning the third and final year of his lucrative contract next summer and is still injured!

Having an injury list as long as your arm, a list that in the past would have had Old 'arry bringing out his "down to the bare bones" one liner, David Moyes could be forgiven for thinking his 'second coming' was cursed. Now however the situation is much rosier, only 'lonely' Jack Wilshere remains on the long term injury list along with Ryan Fredericks because injury prone Andry Yarmolenko has returned to fitness, and is training without any new issues.

West Ham: Fabianksi, Ngakia, Diop, Ogbonna, Creswell, Rice, Noble, Antonio, Fornals, Bowen, Haller. Substitutes: Randolph, Balbuena, Zabaleta, Anderson, Lanzini, Snodgrass
Southampton: McCarthy, Ward-Prowse, Stephens, Bednarek, Bertrand, Armstrong, Smallbone, Hojbjerg, Boufal, Obafemi, Long. Substitutes: Gunn, Vestergaard, Ings, Adams, Romeu, Walker-Peters, Valery.