David Moyes has made four changes to his West Ham United starting XI from the UEFA Europa League round of 16 first-leg defeat by SC Freiburg for Sunday’s Premier League fixture with Burnley at London Stadium.
Alphonse Areola, Aaron Cresswell, Nayef Aguerd and Kalvin Phillips are all in the team, with Łukasz Fabiański, Emerson, Kurt Zouma and Edson Álvarez the four players who miss out.
Fabiański, Zouma and Álvarez are all named among the substitutes, but Emerson is ruled out with the injury he suffered in Germany on Thursday evening.
Areola returns to his regular role as Premier League goalkeeper and makes his 25th top-flight appearance of the season, with a fifth clean sheet the France international’s target.
Cresswell makes his 288th Premier League appearance for the Club, second only to former captain Mark Noble. This will be his fifth top-flight appearance of the season, and third start.
Aguerd returns to the team after being left out for the previous three matches – Premier League wins over Brentford and Everton and the midweek reverse at Freiburg – and will partner Dinos Mavropanos for the eighth time this season in all competitions. The pair’s last start together was the 2-0 win over Freiburg at London Stadium in December.
Phillips starts for the third time in the Premier League following his January loan move from Manchester City. The England international has never lost in four previous appearances against Burnley, registering two wins and a draw in the Premier League with Leeds United and an FA Cup sixth-round victory with Manchester City last season.
The seven other starters retain their place from the Stadion am Wolfswinkel – Vladimír Coufal, Mavropanos, Tomáš Souček, James Ward-Prowse, Mohammed Kudus, Lucas Paquetá and Jarrod Bowen.
Kudus set up both goals when West Ham came from a goal down late on to secure an unlikely 2-1 win in the reverse fixture at Turf Moor on 25 November, with his cross being volleyed in by Souček in the first minute of added-time for a dramatic winner.
Bowen, meanwhile, needs two goals to equal Paolo Di Canio’s 25-year-old record of 16 goals in a Premier League season, which the Italian set in 1999/00. The England forward has 14 top-flight strikes to his name, and 17 in all competitions. Not since Marlon Harewood hit 22 in 2004/05 has a West Ham player scored 20 goals in a season, and not since John Hartson scored 24 in 1997/88 has a Hammer hit 20-plus in all competitions in a top-flight campaign.
Former West Ham midfielder and Academy of Football graduate Josh Cullen captains visitors Burnley against the Club where he started his career.
West Ham United: Areola, Coufal, Mavropanos, Aguerd, Cresswell, Phillips, Souček ©, Ward-Prowse, Paquetá, Kudus, Bowen
Subs: Fabiański (GK), Johnson, Ogbonna, Zouma, Álvarez, Earthy, Ings, Antonio, Mubama
Burnley: Trafford, Assignon, O'Shea, Estève, Taylor, Berge, Cullen ©, Bruun Larsen, Vitinho, Odobert, Fofana
Subs: Muric (GK), Cork, Gudmundsson, Brownhill, Rodriguez, Manuel, Amdouni, Trésor, Delcroix
Referee: Darren England
