Julen Lopetegui has made two changes to his West Ham United starting XI for Saturday’s Premier League match at home to Everton.
Michail Antonio returns to the team to lead the forward line, while Tomáš Souček has recovered from the illness that saw him miss last weekend’s 3-0 defeat at Nottingham Forest.
Dinos Mavropanos drops to the substitutes’ bench as Lopetegui reverts to a back four, and Edson Álvarez serves the first game of a two-match suspension after being sent-off at the City Ground.
Mohammed Kudus serves the third game of his extended five-match ban after being shown a red card at Tottenham Hotspur last month, while Alphonse Areola and Niclas Füllkrug are absent due to injuries.
Teenager Ollie Scarles is named in a Premier League matchday squad for the first time since February, having appeared on the substitutes’ bench five times at the start of 2024. The left-sided 18-year-old made his debut and sole senior appearance in a UEFA Europa Conference League Group B win at FCSB in Romania in November 2022.
So, Łukasz Fabiański continues in goal and makes his 185th Premier League appearance for the Club. With 366 Premier League appearances in total for Arsenal, Swansea City and West Ham, no Pole has made more than our 39-year-old stopper.
Aaron Wan-Bissaka is at right-back, with Emerson at left-back and Jean-Clair Todibo and Maximilian Kilman filling the centre-back positions.
Guido Rodríguez will anchor the midfield, continuing his record of starting every Premier League game since his summer arrival from Real Betis.
Czech giant Souček is back alongside the Argentina international and plays in the Premier League for the 156th time in a West Ham shirt. The 29-year-old has twice previously scored in top-flight wins over the Blues, with strikes in a 1-0 victory at Goodision Park on New Year’s Day 2021, and the 3-1 win on Merseyside in March this year.
Lucas Paquetá will provide flair and creativity as he closes in on 100 appearances for the Hammers. Today will be the 97th time he has pulled on the shirt since his summer 2022 transfer from Olympique Lyonnais.
Captain Jarrod Bowen plays in his favoured right-wing role, seeking his fourth Premier League goal of the season, while Crysencio Summerville will seek his second in consecutive home matches from his position on the left flank.
Antonio has enjoyed seven previous victories over Everton as a West Ham player and scored in last season’s dramatic 3-1 victory at Goodison Park.
The substitutes’ bench will be filled by Scarles, Mavropanos, goalkeeper Wes Foderingham, full-backs Vladimír Coufal and Aaron Cresswell, midfielders Carlos Soler and Andy Irving, winger Luis Guilherme and striker Danny Ings.
West Ham United: Fabiański, Wan-Bissaka, Todibo, Kilman, Emerson, Rodríguez, Souček, Paquetá, Summerville, Bowen ©, Antonio
Subs: Foderingham (GK), Coufal, Cresswell, Mavropanos, Scarles, Soler, Irving, Luis Guilherme, Ings
Everton: Pickford, Young, Tarkowski ©, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Gueye, Mangala, Lindstrøm, Doucouré, Ndiaye, Calvert-Lewin
Subs: Virgínia (GK), Begović (GK), Patterson, Bates, Keane, O’Brien, Armstrong, Harrison, Beto
Referee: Stuart Attwell
