Julen Lopetegui has made two changes to his West Ham United starting XI for Saturday’s Premier League match at Nottingham Forest.
Jean-Clair Todibo and Crysencio Summerville come into the team after impressing off the substitutes’ bench in last weekend’s 2-1 home win over Manchester United.
Carlos Soler and Michail Antonio drop out of the starting line-up at the City Ground, with both being named among the nine substitutes.
Tomáš Souček misses the game through illness, and Alphonse Areola is also absent after picking up a knock. Mohammed Kudus serves the second game of his suspension after being sent-off at Tottenham Hotspur a fortnight ago.
Lopetegui has picked three centre-backs, with Todibo lining up alongside Maximilian Kilman and Dinos Mavropanos at the heart of the defence, with Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Emerson filling the wing-back berths.
Ahead of them, Edson Álvarez and Guido Rodríguez will anchor the midfield, with Lucas Paquetá and Summerville supporting Jarrod Bowen in attack. Rodríguez comes face-to-face with his fellow Argentina international Nicolás Domínguez in central midfield.
Bowen has enjoyed playing against Forest in the past, scoring four goals and assisting two more in eleven previous appearances for West Ham and Hull City, five of which have ended in victories. The England international scored in the 3-2 home win over the Reds last season and assisted in the 4-0 victory at London Stadum in 2022/23.
Paquetá also scored in that 3-2 success, while substitute Danny Ings bagged two in the 4-0 win – his first goals in Claret and Blue – in February 2023.
That means former Forest centre-forward Antonio will start the game on the bench alongside goalkeeper Wes Foderingham, full-backs Vladimír Coufal and Aaron Cresswell, young centre-back Kaelan Casey, midfielders Soler and Andy Irving, winger Luis Guilherme and fellow striker Ings.
For Nottingham Forest, West Ham loanee James Ward-Prowse cannot feature against his parent club.
Morgan Gibbs-White returns, with Elliot Anderson dropping to the bench.
Nottingham Forest: Sels, Aina, Milenković, Murillo, Moreno, Yates ©, Domínguez, Gibbs-White, Elanga, Hudson-Odoi, Wood
Subs: Carlos Miguel (GK), Williams, Toffolo, Boly, Anderson, da Silva Moreira, Jota Silva, Sosa, Awoniyi
West Ham United: Fabiański, Wan-Bissaka, Mavropanos, Todibo, Kilman, Emerson, Rodríguez, Álvarez, Paquetá, Summerville, Bowen ©
Subs: Foderingham (GK), Coufal, Cresswell, Casey, Soler, Irving, Luis Guilherme, Antonio, Ings
Referee: Peter Bankes
