[Lucky McLuckerson]

...VS....

Date - Sunday, September 22 2019
Kickoff Time - 1400 Hrs BST
Venue - London Stadium, London

League standings and form guide

4. Manchester United: WDLDW

8. West Ham: LDWWD


Previous Meetings

Manchester United 2—1 West Ham

West Ham 3—1 Manchester United

West Ham 0—0 Manchester United

Manchester United 4—0 West Ham

West Ham 0—2 Manchester United


All-Time League Record

Manchester United wins: 59
West Ham wins: 39
Draws: 28


Pre-Match Pressers

Ole Gunnar Solskjær



Manuel Pellegrini




Team News

Manchester United

Eric Bailly, Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Paul Pogba, Luke Shaw and Anthony Martial ruled out.

West Ham

Michail Antonio, Arthur Masuaku and Winston Reid ruled out.


Know the opposition

West Ham United Football Club (nicknamed The Irons, The Hammers, and The Academy of Football) are a professional football club based in Upton Park, East London. They were founded in 1895 by foreman and local league referee Dave Taylor and owner Arnold Hills as Thames Ironworks F.C. - a strictly amateur football club with a team featuring a number of works employees. During the summer of 1898, Thames Ironworks F.C. became a professional outfit for the first time, to match their new status as members of the Southern League Second Division, and were promoted to the First Division at the first attempt following a decision to enlarge the top division of the Southern League to 19 teams. After growing disputes over the running and financing of the club in June 1900, Thames Ironworks F.C. resigned from the Southern League and were officially wound up. On 5 July 1900 they reformed under the new name of West Ham United and accepted an offer of the Southern League place left vacant by Thames Ironworks.

West Ham's most successful period started with the appointment of Ron Greenwood in 1961 - leading to FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup titles - with youth team graduates Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters at the forefront. Their nickname The Academy of Football pays homage to the club's proud tradition in English football for playing entertaining, attacking football - and the success of the club in coaching future greats - which includes that aforementioned trio of World Cup winners, Trevor Brooking, Paul Ince, Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard, Jermaine Defoe and Michael Carrick. West Ham's most prominent rivals are local clubs Millwall (Dockers derby - one of the longest-standing and most bitter in English football), Chelsea (East versus West London rivalry), and Tottenham Hotspur (East versus North London derby). They played their home games at the now demolished Boleyn Ground (often referred to as Upton Park) from 1904 to 2016, and moved to the London Olympic Stadium at the start of the 2016/ 2017 League season.


Referee

Anthony Taylor.


Familiar Faces

N/A​

 

[charlenefan]

Team should be...

-------------De Gea-------------
AWB--Lindelof--Maguire--Young
----McTominay---Matic----
Lingard------Mata------James
------------Rashford------------

Subs: Romero, Tuanzebe, Dalot, Gomes, Fred, Andreas, Greenwood

Pretty sure Shaw and Pogba are back, fairly sure James will be ok, not crazy about Lingard on the right but feel it's doubtful that Greenwood will start again

West Ham have 2 cup finals a season and we're one of them. I'd be amazed if we avoid defeat

 

[PoTMS]

Can't for the life of me see us winning this one. These lot live to play against us and we are tosh. Nailed on to draw or lose.

 

[Sir Scott McToMinay]

I reckon it will be:

DDG

Shaw
Lindelof
Maguire
AWB

Fred
McTominay

James
Pogba
Lingard

Rashford

 

[Ballache]

Isn't Martial back for this?

 

[AJ10]

Martial back? please someone say yes.

 

[Andycoleno9]

I expect 3-1 loss so it will be 3-0 for us with our best performance under Ole

 

[Andycoleno9]

Martial back? please someone say yes.

Ole said yes. Didn't want to risk him against Astana.

 

[Eric7C]

-------------De Gea-------------
WB--Lindelof--Maguire--Shaw
----McTominay---Fred/Pogba----
Greeenwood------Pogba/Gomes------James
------------Martial-------

Rashford needs to be dropped. Lingard and Matic should be nowhere near the starting 11. Gomes is a real talent and should get an appearance.

James to score the winner in a tight game.

 

[bosnian_red]

Hopefully Martial and Pogba are back? Not sure how long they were supposed to be out for.

De Gea
Wan Bissaka Lindelof Maguire Young
McTominay Fred
James Pogba Rashford
Martial​

 

[Catt]

Is Martial back?

 

[King Eric 7]

I hate this fixture and the shit house team that is West Ham. We never seem to do well there so it'll be good to just get this fixture out of the way, preferably with three points.

 

[R'hllor]

We need McT as CB in this game.

 

[Andycoleno9]

We need McT as CB in this game.

And Pogba on the bench

 

[PoTMS]

When's the last time we won away?

 

[R'hllor]

And Pogba on the bench

True

 

[Andycoleno9]

When's the last time we won away?

Psg. So six months. Weak more or less

 

[Catt]

We need McT as CB in this game.

Isn't both Maguire & Lindeløf fit?

 

[JustABall]

Definitely a draw at best. Never like playing West Ham away.

Need Martial, Pogba and the rest back for this. All hands on deck.

 

[Irwin99]

Their cup final for some reason. Would love a win but I'll predict a draw. Assuming James and Martial are out i'll go with;

DDG

AWB
Maguire
Lindelof
Young

McT
Matic
Pereria

Mata
Rashford
Lingard

Edit- that's a depressing attack. I doubt Greenwood will start an away game in that atmosphere despite the goal today.

 

[Cathy Ferguson]

Their cup final for some reason. Would love a win but I'll predict a draw. Assuming James and Martial are out i'll go with;

DDG

AWB
Maguire
Lindelof
Young

McT
Matic
Pereria

Mata
Rashford
Lingard

Edit- that's a depressing attack. I doubt Greenwood will start an away game in that atmosphere despite the goal today.

James is injured?

 

[Irwin99]

James is injured?

He picked up a knock. He might still make it though.

 

[Gandalf]

Definitely need our injury problems to clear up although after tonights game I actually would not be too worried if we played Rojo at left back again. We do need the goal threat of James, the quality of Pogba and Martial as a legitimate number 9 for this. If we have our first choice team I actually feel pretty good about this one, West Ham will attack being the home team and we are actually better set up to play on the counter anyway.

 

[Cathy Ferguson]

Definitely need our injury problems to clear up although after tonights game I actually would not be too worried if we played Rojo at left back again. We do need the goal threat of James, the quality of Pogba and Martial as a legitimate number 9 for this. If we have our first choice team I actually feel pretty good about this one, West Ham will attack being the home team and we are actually better set up to play on the counter anyway.

Rashford and Martial are at their best when they can attack space so I hope West Ham will have a go at us. Maguire can handle Haller.

 

[JMack1234]

No matter what it cannot be worse than the car crash that we suffered at West Ham last season.

 

[always_hoping]

Fingers and toes crossed that Martial,Pogba and James are fit to start. This fixture last year highlighted that Jose had totally lost it and was only a matter of time before he was sacked.

 

[AJ10]

No matter what it cannot be worse than the car crash that we suffered at West Ham last season.

 

[Raw]

Martial back would be a huge boost. He does love scoring against West Ham.

 

[JustABall]

Martial back would be a huge boost. He does love scoring against West Ham.

So did Lukaku.

 

[Red Dreams]

I suppose we will play Poba and McT in behind Lingard.

 

[Beans]

With Pereira not playing midweek I expect him to start at West Ham. If he's playing on the right then one of James, Rashford or Martial won't play.

​

 

[ayushreddevil9]

Definitely need our injury problems to clear up although after tonights game I actually would not be too worried if we played Rojo at left back again. We do need the goal threat of James, the quality of Pogba and Martial as a legitimate number 9 for this. If we have our first choice team I actually feel pretty good about this one, West Ham will attack being the home team and we are actually better set up to play on the counter anyway.

It was Astana...

 

[Samid]

No presser today for anyone wondering. Happened after the game last night.

 

[red_de_pologne]

DDG

Shaw
Maguire
Lindelof
AWB

Pogba
McTominay

James
Lingard
Rashford

Martial

 

[pocco]

Very interested in seeing how Rice, Haller and Felipe Anderson do against us. McTominay vs Rice will be an interesting comparison in particular.

Last season I thought that Masuaku was really good against us but he's banned for this game I think.

 

[Catt]

Absolutely zero chance of United winning this. No chance in hell. Right?

 

[roonster09]

 

[Santoryo]

Bummer

 

[charlenefan]

Only hope is that West Ham underestimate us so much we can somehow scrape a result

 

[Bwuk]

De Gea
AWB - Lindelof - Maguire - Young
McTominay - Matic
Greenwood - Mata - Lingard
Rashford​

I'd imagine it'll be something like that. Maybe Andreas in for Mata.