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Huddersfield: Lossl, Hadergjonaj, Zanka, Schindler, Kongolo, Lowe, Hogg, Billing, Mooy, Pritchard, Mounie. Subs: Hamer, Smith, Bacuna, Kachunga, Mbenza, Depoitre, Durm
West Ham: Fabianski, Zabaleta, Balbuena, Diop, Cresswell, Rice, Obiang, Snodgrass, Anderson, Diangana, Arnautovic. Subs: Adrian, Hernandez, Ogbonna, Fredericks, Masuaku, Perez, Antonio

With the exception of Europe's elite clubs, many of which are rumoured to be questionably funded, there are few teams if any that can afford to pay a player £7 Million per year in wages and yet only use them very sparingly. Javier Hernandez arrived from Bayer Leverkusen for a £16 Million fee but on enormous wages, he has barely been used by initially Slaven Billic, then David Moyes and now present manager Manuel Pellegrini.

There has been substantial coverage of the 'penalty' that should have been given during Hammers victory over Burnley at the London Stadium, the BBC match of the day reviewers and the match commentator Jonathan Pearce all agreed that Grady Diangana was clearly brought down in the box and deserved to have been awarded a penalty, replays confirmed the validity of the penalty comprehensively. Even referee supremo Mark Clattenburg came out of his cosseted closset to say "I am shocked that West Ham were not awarded a penalty when Grady Diangana was felled by Steven Defour.