Team News: Alan Curbishley makes six changes to the team that started the 6-0 defeat at Reading on New Year's Day. Lee Bowyer is out for six weeks with a shoulder injury, so Yossi Benayoun switches to the right and new signing Luis Boa Morte comes in for his Hammers debut.
Elsewhere, Roy Carroll, George McCartney, Mark Noble, Carlton Cole and Carlos Tevez come in for Rob Green, Paul Konchesky, Nigel Reo-Coker, Marlon Harewood and Bobby Zamora.
Referee: Mark Halsey