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Quique Sanchez Flores has made wholesale changes for Watford ahead of his team's weekend FA Cup semi final at Wembley against Everton, although he does have Troy Deeney on the bench. Slaven Billic had the Sakman available to include in his squad, their spat appears to have been buried as he makes a start.
West Ham: Adrian, Antonio, Reid, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Noble, Kouyate, Lanzini, Payet, Sakho, Carroll
Subs: Randolph, Byram, Tomkins, Collins, Obiang, Moses, Emenike
Watford: Gomes, Paredes, Prodl, Cathcart, Holebas, Suarez, Behrami, Guedioura, Jurado, Abdi, Amrabat

Leicester City: Schmeichel, Simpson, Morgan, Huth, Fuchs, Mahrez, Kante, Drinkwater, Albrighton, Okazaki, Vardy.
Subs: King, Amartey, Schlupp, Gray, Ulloa, Wasilewski, Schwarzer.
West Ham Utd: Adrian, Antonio, Reid, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Kouyate, Obiang, Noble, Moses, Emenike, Payet.
Subs: Randolph, Tomkins, Carroll, Valencia, Collins, Byram, Lanzini.

A week can be a long time in politics, a couple of minutes can be a life time in football, and so a week that began with so much promise for West Ham United has unravelled spectacularly. Recent refereeing decisions and then the Sakho saga followed by defeat against Manchester United in the FA Cup replay and then compounded by the media witch hunt that once again got it's claws in to the Olympic Stadium award. All in all a pretty disastrous fall from the heady heights of expectation, but maybe this reality check will stand the team in good stead for the future.