West Ham (H) Carabao Cup 26/08: Build Up & Match Thread

[Jinky]

A welcome or unwelcome distraction from the league for both clubs?

I think we’ll see wholesale changes from both teams.

With our only natural left sided centre back suspended in Toti, there’s an argument to go 4 at the back in this one, going with an extra attacker and actually having a go, as the home side.

Johnstone
Jackson Yerson Santi Hugo
Bellegarde Andre
Fer Arias Rodrigo
Sasa/Hwang
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Minutes and more time to bed in for Jackson. Andre plays because he had less minutes than everyone else today, Munetsi played the full 90 and you want to be giving Joao a rest (we don’t have anyone else, as we know). Doesn’t matter which of Sasa or Hwang start. Probably Hwang as Sasa wasn’t even in the squad today.

We all know Vítor is wedded to his 3-5-2, though. So someone will get shoe-horned in to the LCB position and it’ll be more of the same. Quality wise, this match is going to be a horrible watch. We’ll probably lose.

 

[Tredman]

To celebrate losing today I bought tickets to watch this. Fuck knows why.

Cheap and plenty left for anyone considering it though.

 

[sycophantia]

My 6 year old grandson is going to his first ever game for this, disappointed I'm not going with them but I'm currently in Switzerland and will be in Baden Baden when the games on.

 

[Stan Hullis]

We will still play the same system, Vitor won’t change it when we’ve never looked like doing it before.

If there was ever a case for it, then today was the one, but he still brought Santi on instead.