[West Ham United](https://www.claretandhugh.info/moyes-return-west-ham-v-everton-preview-team-news-line-ups-prediction/) need goals this afternoon against visitors Everton who have European ambitions themselves. What seems like a pivotal weekend has already seen relegation rivals Nottingham Forest demolish Sunderland – who would have had hopes of overtaking Everton themselves – and the gauntlet has now been thrown down for Nuno’s Hammers to respond.
No more ‘respecting the point’: West Ham will be dumped back down in the relegation zone if they fail to overcome former manager David Moyes’ team this afternoon. The Irons cannot expect that Wolves will offer much resistance against Tottenham – so anything other than three points – however ‘tough’ – could prove to be the undoing of West Ham’s hopes of a ‘great escape 2.0″.
### West Ham’s starting eleven – Claret and Hugh’s prediction:
However much we’d like to see Nuno stick Bowen alongside Taty and play Walker-Peters as a winger with AWB as an out and out right back – leaving Pablo out of the starting XI – we’d not expect the Hammers manager to do anything so radical this afternoon. More than likely an unchanged side which means our ‘likely Nuno XI’ looks like this:
Hermansen | Walker Peters , Disasi, Mavropanos, Diouf | Bowen, Fernandes, Soucek, Summerville | Taty, Pablo
Score predictions
Gonzo 2 -1 West Ham win
Sean 1-0 West Ham win
Matt 1-1 respect the point
Martin 2- 1 West Ham win
### Team news is released at 1345 so check back and we’ll bring it to you first.
There’ll be a half time report at 1545 since the game is not televised in the UK…. There’ll also be our ‘player ratings’ just after the final whistle so that you can compare notes and make your own comments known live on our forum. You lucky people!
Come on you Irons!