**West Ham manager Nuno Espírito Santo has big calls to make tomorrow ahead of our trip to Villa Park.**
West Ham were hoping Crysencio Summerville would be fit enough to return tomorrow, however, that isn’t the case.
Nuno on Summerville: “He won’t be available for this game (against Aston Villa) but we are still assessing him day by day.”
The Dutchman is set to return to action after the International break, so he will miss this one. So, what will Nuno do to the team?
I think he will stick with the same team that played against Manchester City.
Ideally, we would switch from a back five to a back four, but that would mean Adama Traore has to play and I don’t think anyone really wants to see that.
Predicted team to play Aston Villa: Hermansen; Wan-Bissaka, Mavropanos, Todibo, Disasi; Fernandes, Soucek; Bowen, Castellanos, Pablo.
There will definitely be a lot of people campaigning for Nuno to drop one of the central defenders in favour of Adama Traore, which would mean returning to 4-4-2.
I’d love to see the return to that formation, however, I don’t think Traore offers enough to change a working formula. If Summerville was fit it would be a no brainer, but if he isn’t, he really should keep it the same.
If Traore did start I wouldn’t be mad at all, it would show some real attacking intent, and after having just one shot last weekend it would make sense.
But this team will definitely attack a whole lot more against Villa than they did against City, so I think we’ll have more than enough in attack to give them a real game.