West Ham squad at Fulham

Team News: Ings and Antonio start at Fulham

Danny Ings returns to the West Ham United starting XI as David Moyes makes five changes in naming an attacking line-up for Fulham on Saturday afternoon.

Ings, who netted a brace on his full Hammers' debut, is in alongside the recalled Pablo Fornals, Aaron Cresswell, Angelo Ogbonna, and Vladimír Coufal.

A quintet of switches sess Saïd Benrahma, Nayef Aguerd and Thilo Kehrer drop to the bench, while Paquetá is not included in the matchday squad. The Brazil midfielder has not travelled to Craven Cottage due to injury.

With ten games to go, we have to focus on ourselves and get out of it.
Aaron Cresswell

Venturing across the capital, Łukasz Fabiański keeps his place between the sticks, although Moyes makes three changes to the back-four from Newcastle.

Kurt Zouma, who netted his second goal of the league season against the Magpies, is the only defender retained, with Coufal, Cresswell and Ogbonna recalled to a much-changed back four.

Cresswell makes his first start since a 1-0 defeat at Wolverhampton Wanderers in January, while Coufal is involved in his first Premier League XI since suffering an injury in the 4-0 win over Nottingham Forest in February.

With Paquetá absent due to injury, Fornals comes into the midfield, where he will be joined by captain Declan Rice and Tomáš Souček.

Fornals makes his first league appearance since January and scored in the Hammers’ away win over Aston Villa earlier this season.

Jarrod Bowen seeks his second goal at Craven Cottage in 2022/23, having netted in a mid-season friendly against the Whites in December.  

Jarrod Bowen scores at Fulham

Antonio has five Premier League goal contributions in 2022/23 and seeks his 100th goal across the top four divisions of English football today. Ings, meanwhile, hopes to net his first career goal against Fulham on his return after dropping to the bench for the midweek defeat by Newcastle United.

After a loan spell in west London during the 2021/22 season, Alphonse Areola is the substitute goalkeeper as he returns to Fulham, where he won Player of the Year honours in 2020/21. The FIFA World Cup-winning stopper is part of a strong substitutes’ bench that seats six internationals.

Defenders Aguerd, Emerson, Kehrer, and Ben Johnson are joined by Benrahma, Maxwel Cornet, Flynn Downes and Manuel Lanzini.

 

Fulham: Leno, Cédric, Adarabioyo, Ream ©, Robinson, Reed, Palhinha, De Cordova-Reid, Pereira, Willian, Carlos Vinícius
Subs: Rodák (GK), Tete, Duffy, Diop, Lukic, Soloman, Wilson, Cairney, James

 

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

 

Referee: Jarred Gillett

 

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