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Team News: Hammers unchanged for Liverpool

West Ham United are unchanged for Liverpool's Premier League visit to London Stadium on Wednesday evening.  

David Moyes names the same starting XI that defeated AFC Bournemouth 4-0 at Vitality Stadium on Sunday as the Irons seek a third straight win in all competitions.

Michail Antonio once again leads the line and seeks his seventh goal contribution in the 2022/23 Premier League and fifth career goal against the Reds.

Skipper Declan Rice will move one shy of 200 Premier League appearances – and would become the youngest Hammer to reach the landmark should he feature against Crystal Palace on Saturday.

We had a very good win at the weekend, but now we have another incredibly difficult opponent in Liverpool
David Moyes

Following a clean sheet against the Cherries, Łukasz Fabiański starts between the sticks, with the back four likewise hoping to impress once more after a dominant showing on the south coast.

Aaron Cresswell makes his 325th appearance for West Ham, with Vladimír Coufal, Nayef Aguerd and Kurt Zouma, who scored in the 3-2 win over Liverpool at London Stadium last season, completing the back four.

Elsewhere, Rice is joined by Tomáš Souček and Paquetá as part of a settled midfield trio. The Brazil creative would net for the third straight match in all competitions should he strike against Liverpool.

Saïd Benrahma and Jarrod Bowen lead the support of Antonio, who has only scored more goals against three other clubs than he has across his career against Liverpool.

West Ham players applaud the fans at full-time at Bournemouth

Another scorer in this fixture last season, Pablo Fornals, who also netted against Bournemouth, is part of a strong substitutes' bench that seats Alphonse Areola, Manuel Lanzini and Danny Ings.

Having made his first Premier League start in the reverse fixture, Flynn Downes, alongside Maxwel Cornet, Emerson and Thilo Kehrer, will hope to make an impact from the bench.

Angelo Ogbonna, who scored the winner in a memorable FA Cup fourth-round replay in 2016, completes the matchday squad.

 

West Ham United: Fabiański, Coufal, Zouma, Aguerd, Cresswell, Souček, Rice ©, Paquetá, Benrahma, Antonio
Subs: Areola (GK), Cornet, Downes, Fornals, Ings, Kehrer, Lanzini, Ogbonna, Emerson

 

Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, van Dijk, Robertson, Fabinho, Henderson ©, Jones, Gakpo, Jota, Salah
Subs: Kelleher (GK), Gomez, Tsimikas, Milner, Thiago, Elliott, Díaz, Carvalho, Núñez

 

Referee: Chris Kavanagh

 

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