West Ham United manager David Moyes has made three changes for the Premier League visit of Southampton to London Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
January signing Jarrod Bowen, whose first two promising appearances in Claret and Blue have come off the bench at Manchester City and Liverpool respectively, has been handed his first start as a Hammer.
Summer signing Pablo Fornals, meanwhile, who made a goalscoring emergence off the bench against Liverpool on Monday, has also been named amongst the starting eleven, while record signing Sebastien Haller is recalled to the side up front.
The three players who make way are Tomas Soucek, who suffered a low grade injury on Merseyside and is expected to be out for approximately three weeks; and Robert Snodgrass and Felipe Anderson, who both move to the bench.
Moyes has named an unchanged back line, with goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski and defenders Jeremy Ngakia, Issa Diop, Angelo Ogbonna and Aaron Cresswell all lining up against the Saints.
The announcement marks 19-year-old Ngakia’s first consecutive starts of his career, having appeared twice previously – at Anfield on Monday, and against the same opposition at London Stadium last month.
In midfield, Declan Rice and captain Mark Noble will serve as central anchors to the attacking talent flourishing around them: Fornals, Bowen, Haller and Michail Antonio.
On the substitutes bench, Moyes has plenty of options; along with Snodgrass and Anderson, he could call on goalkeeper Darren Randolph; defenders Pablo Zabaleta, Arthur Masuaku or Fabian Balbuena; and midfielder Manuel Lanzini.
West Ham United: Fabianski, Ngakia, Diop, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Fornals, Rice, Noble (c), Bowen, Antonio, Haller
Subs: Randolph, Zabaleta, Masuaku, Balbuena, Snodgrass, Lanzini, Felipe Anderson
Southampton: McCarthy, Smallbone, Stephens, Bednarek, Bertrand, Boufal, Ward-Prowse, Hojbjerg (c), Armstrong, Long, Obafemi
Subs: Gunn, Walker-Peters, Valery, Vestergaard, Romeu, Adams, Ings
Referee: Anthony Taylor