West Ham United V Leicester City

West Ham United V Leicester City



Npower Championship

Venue: The Boleyn Ground - Upton Park
Date: Saturday, 29 October
Kick-off: 1500 BST
Coverage: Watch highlights on The Football League Show; listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC local radio; text commentary on the BBC Sport website


Team news


Henri Lansbury (knee) and Matt Taylor (calf) recently joined West Ham's lengthy injury list.

James Tomkins (groin), Carlton Cole (knee), Guy Demel (hamstring), Gary O'Neil (ankle) and goalkeeper Robert Green (knee) are also out.

Leicester are without Matt Mills, who is serving a three-match ban.

But Jon Rudkin and Mike Stowell, who are in caretaker charge, can call upon Paul Gallagher following the forward's recovery from an ankle injury.


Match Facts
Head-to-head


• West Ham have won 48 competitive matches against Leicester, and lost 42, with 29 drawn.

• This is their first meeting in seven seasons, and Leicester are vying for a first league victory at Upton Park in 11 years.

• The Hammers need to score four times to total 200 league and cup goals against the Foxes.


West Ham United


• Second-placed West Ham, three points behind Southampton, are aiming to collect a fourth win in seven league outings, and an eighth of the season.

• All their league wins have been against clubs outside the current top 10.

• Victory will take their all-time total of league points to 4,000.


Leicester City


• Managerless Leicester have lost just four league games this season, but two of those have come in the last three outings.

• Last Saturday's 3-0 home reverse to Millwall cost Sven-Goran Eriksson his job, even though it left the Foxes just two points off the play-off places.

• But they have not won away since the opening day trip to Coventry, drawing four and losing one of the five subsequent games and failing to score in the last three.


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In view of the injury list I'm not much bothered if it's ugly, long as we come away with three points. I think Freddy deserves a start tomorrow, I hope he can finish better than at Brighton though.
COYI!!

SemiOldIron wrote:In view of the injury list I'm not much bothered if it's ugly, long as we come away with three points. I think Freddy deserves a start tomorrow, I hope he can finish better than at Brighton though.
COYI!!

I agree with you , with our injury list any win is good weather its an ugly win or a nice comfortable win tho a repeat of the blackpool game would be nice i have to disagree with you about freddy if your on about piquionne as i do not think he deserves a starting spot , I think i will be happy with a point out of this fixture today ,think its going to be very very hard game for us so iam going 1-1 or 1-0 west ham with Carew or Nolan getting on the score sheet !

We just need to keep winning so we can be in this position come xmas and if that means playing the ugliest football going , I,m all for it


PS
Any sausages for the game today ?

Need a good win today.
Read somewhere that Green and Tomkins are in the squad.

Arran H wrote:

SemiOldIron wrote:In view of the injury list I'm not much bothered if it's ugly, long as we come away with three points. I think Freddy deserves a start tomorrow, I hope he can finish better than at Brighton though.
COYI!!

I agree with you , with our injury list any win is good weather its an ugly win or a nice comfortable win tho a repeat of the blackpool game would be nice i have to disagree with you about freddy if your on about piquionne as i do not think he deserves a starting spot , I think i will be happy with a point out of this fixture today ,think its going to be very very hard game for us so iam going 1-1 or 1-0 west ham with Carew or Nolan getting on the score sheet !

I meant Freddy Sears, Arran. We would have to be pretty desperate for Piquionne to start, I think we just stick him in the shop window now and again in the hope that someone takes him off our hands.

SemiOldIron wrote:

Arran H wrote:

SemiOldIron wrote:In view of the injury list I'm not much bothered if it's ugly, long as we come away with three points. I think Freddy deserves a start tomorrow, I hope he can finish better than at Brighton though.
COYI!!

I agree with you , with our injury list any win is good weather its an ugly win or a nice comfortable win tho a repeat of the blackpool game would be nice i have to disagree with you about freddy if your on about piquionne as i do not think he deserves a starting spot , I think i will be happy with a point out of this fixture today ,think its going to be very very hard game for us so iam going 1-1 or 1-0 west ham with Carew or Nolan getting on the score sheet !

I meant Freddy Sears, Arran. We would have to be pretty desperate for Piquionne to start, I think we just stick him in the shop window now and again in the hope that someone takes him off our hands.

In that case i agree with you about both freddy sears and about freddy piquionne

Green, O'Brien, Faye, Reid, McCartney, Noble, Nolan, Collison, Faubert, Baldock, Carew

apparently. Greeno's back

Subs

Subs: Boffin, Tomkins, Diop, Sears, Piquionne

an Ugly 1-0 win will do, 3 point is everything,
Saints have M'boro today so a draw best all round there

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Seems like the ref has been picking on Carew so now we have Piq on

Why didnt BFS bring sears on instead of piquionne ?!?!?! FFS

Too small

Admin wrote:Too small

Got more chance of sears scoring then piquionne tho

Southampton 2-0 up as well

Just glad we are 2-0 up now that the useless lazy Piquionne is on the pitch !!! What does BFS see in Piquionne that we all dont ???!?!?!?