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West Ham United V Brighton
Npower Championship
Venue: Upton Park
Date: Saturday 14 April
Kick-off: 1500 BST
Coverage: Watch highlights on The Football League Show; listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC local radio;
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West Ham will check on George McCartney after the on-loan Sunderland defender suffered mild concussion during the draw with Birmingham. Danny Collins is likely to start at left-back if the Irishman misses out, while on-loan Arsenal midfielder Henri Lansbury could be handed a rare start.
Liam Bridcutt returns to the Brighton squad after he missed the last two matches through suspension.
Winger Craig Noone will be checked due to a hamstring problem.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
• West Ham boast a 50% winning record against Brighton. They have been triumphant in 10 of 20 competitive meetings, drawing another five, and losing five.
• Skipper Kevin Nolan scored the only goal of the game at Amex in October, to give West Ham the chance of a first double over the Seagulls.
• Brighton picked up their first ever league win at Upton Park on the last visit, in November 2004.
West Ham United
• If West Ham miss out on an immediate return to the Premier League through automatic promotion, it will be down to their home form. They are striving for a first win in eight games at Upton Park, after six draws and one defeat.
• The defeat to promotion rivals Reading is the Hammers' only loss in 14 Championship games. It was their eighth league reverse of the season. No club has lost fewer games in the division.
• Ricardo Vaz Te has scored five goals in four games.
Brighton
Use accessible player and disable flyout menus• Brighton lie immediately outside the play-offs, two points adrift of sixth-placed Cardiff and without a win in four.
• Gus Poyet's side have suffered back-to-back 1-0 defeats to Burnley (a) and Reading (h) and are in danger of three defeats in a row and their worst sequence since ending 2011 on four straight losses.
• The Seagulls have scored just 16 goals on the road; only Coventry (12) and Bristol City (15) have fewer.
! but if we fail in any then we are doomed to the lottery of the pleyoffs 
What a strike by Vaz Te 
We need to play like we did in first 10mins for the whole of the 2nd half ... Would like to see Cole off for Maynard - Feel maynard would be more of a threat and Taylor off for Carew - This is the sort game Carew would score in 
Comms saying we're playing like the away side - Tactics 
