Can West Ham do better in attacking against Arsenal? That the question everyone will be asking as our attacking display against Man Utd were poor and that down to Moyes in a 3-4-2-1 formation which does NOT suit us and I hope Phillips will not come in 2nd half sub as he is more capable of giving that teams gifts for pleasure. Antonio is probably back in training and Paqueta just started light training so hopefully the latter will be back against Nottingham Forest or Brentford game and that will give us massive boost in attack. Areola will be OK after his knock. We need to do better in defence and more in clinical finishing. Arsenal will be confident after their 3-1 win against the bindipper so hopefully we can replicate our form against Arsenal as we did in our last 2 meetings against them.
Squad:
Areola
Coufal
Zouma
Aguerd
Emerson
Soucek
Alvarez
Johnson
JWP
Kudus
Bowen
I would give Johnson on right wing slot as he did well in last couple of games and Coufal need to be sharp in defending and crosses as well. We need to up our tempo against them and don't let them bossy the game out.
Results Probable:
West Ham win 10%
Draw: 20%
Arsenal win 70%
This is largely because our home record against Arsenal is very poor and even worst than the Chelsea, Liverpool and Man Utd records.
I would have more confident of West Ham to get anything from this game IF Paqueta is in the squad.
COYI!!!!