David Moyes has named an unchanged West Ham United team for Saturday’s Premier League fixture at Everton.
The Irons head to a decidedly wet and cold Goodison Park seeking successive top-flight victories following a 4-2 home win over Brentford last time out – our first success of 2024 at the ninth attempt.
With that in mind, Moyes has picked the same starting XI to face the club he managed on 518 occasions between 2002-13. Only Arsène Wenger (828 for Arsenal) and Sir Alex Ferguson (810 for Manchester United) have managed more Premier League matches at one club than Moyes’ 427 with Everton. Today marks Moyes’ 187th Premier League match in charge of West Ham, and his 686th in total, ranking third all-time behind Wenger and Ferguson.
For comparison, following Roy Hodgson’s departure from Crystal Palace, Liverpool’s Jürgen Klopp comes next on 322 Premier League matches managed, but the German will himself be leaving the competition in the summer.
Jarrod Bowen netted a hat-trick against Brentford last Monday that took him onto 14 Premier League goals for the season and he will again start at centre-forward. Another goal today would be his eighth away from home in the Premier League, setting a new record and breaking one set by Trevor Morley in 1993/94 and Paulo Wanchope in 1999/00.
Bowen’s first career treble took him onto 41 Premier League goals for West Ham, level with Carlton Cole for fourth all-time, and behind only Mark Noble and Paolo Di Canio (both 47) and Michail Antonio (63).
Alongside Bowen, Lucas Paquetá will hope to extend his winning run to five Premier League matches which he has started. In all, the Brazil midfielder has tasted defeat just once in his previous nine top-flight appearances either side of the calf injury which ruled him out for much of January and February and won six of them.
Alphonse Areola starts in goal behind a back four of Vladimír Coufal, Dinos Mavropanos, captain Kurt Zouma and Emerson.
The midfield will be anchored by Edson Álvarez, with Tomáš Souček and James Ward-Prowse playing further forward.
Paquetá will support Bowen from the left, with Ghana international Mohammed Kudus providing width on the right.
West Ham welcome Kalvin Phillips back to the substitutes’ bench after he served a one-match suspension and missed the Brentford game. Liverpool-born Aaron Cresswell returns after missing the same match with a sore Achilles tendon, but Maxwel Cornet remains sidelined with a hamstring injury suffered in training.
For Everton, Dominic Calvert-Lewin has not scored in his previous 20 appearances in all competitions, but his last goal was the winner in the Premier League fixture at London Stadium back in October.
That form has seen the England international dropped to the bench in favour of former Udinese forward Beto in the only change from the Blues' 1-1 draw at Brighton & Hove Albion last weekend.
Everton: Pickford, Godfrey, Branthwaite, Tarkowski ©, Mykolenko, Harrison, Onana, Garner, McNeil, Doucouré, Beto
Subs: Virgínia (GK), Patterson, Keane, Young, Coleman, Gomes, Dobbin, Chermiti, Calvert-Lewin
West Ham United: Areola, Coufal, Mavropanos, Zouma ©, Emerson, Souček, Álvarez, Ward-Prowse, Paquetá, Kudus, Bowen
Subs: Fabiański (GK), Johnson, Ogbonna, Aguerd, Cresswell, Phillips, Mubama, Ings, Antonio
Referee: Craig Pawson
