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Morgan Rogers, first selection? The concept is more and more arduous to dismiss as outlandish. His newest sterling contribution – a double to guide to a come-from-behind victory in opposition to – offers additional advantage to the notion he might command an everyday berth in Thomas Tuchel’s facet.

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If Rogers is to be in England’s first XI come the World Cup, he’ll have to be favoured over Jude Bellingham, his childhood pal. Rogers has began 4 of England’s previous 5 video games, together with in opposition to Serbia final month when Bellingham was solely deployed from the bench. Tuchel has declared that the Midlands pair are in “pleasant competitors” with one another.

For his or her membership sides, Rogers at present has much more motive to smile. Actual Madrid have received simply two of their final eight matches, with Bellingham amongst these to be criticised for his or her performances for . Aston Villa have now received 9 consecutive video games in all competitions.

Rogers’s management, class and easy dribbling have been on the coronary heart of this spectacular run. On a day wherein Villa went behind inside 29 seconds, and had been uncharacteristically sloppy of their passing, Unai Emery was significantly indebted to Rogers’s array of items.

Drifting in from the left, Rogers was a continuing menace to Aaron Wan-Bissaka and West Ham’s beleaguered centre-backs. A silky end within the fiftieth minute, tucking the ball away along with his proper foot after a cross from Youri Tielemans, introduced Villa’s second equaliser of the sport. Rogers then bettered that objective with a luxurious right-footed strike from 25 yards to place Aston Villa 3-2 up with 11 minutes to go. These final 11 minutes had been the one time within the match when Villa led.

One other marauding run and shot throughout objective, within the ninetieth minute, virtually introduced Rogers a hat-trick. However participant and membership alike could possibly be very content material with a double and a 3-2 victory.

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Nobody higher than Rogers embodies Villa’s metamorphosis this season. From a paltry three factors of their first 5 Premier League video games, Villa have since received 10 of their final 11 league matches.

Throughout Villa’s torrid early run, Rogers didn’t rating or contribute an help. However within the 11 Premier League video games since, Rogers now has 5 objectives to go along with three assists. Beneath two years on from his transfer from Middlesbrough, Rogers is already well-established among the many Premier League’s most mesmerising sights: an intoxicating cocktail of tempo, directness and clever passing.

Certainly, much more than Rogers’s objective risk, Emery singled out his acuity and adaptableness: important qualities in worldwide tournaments.

“For me, crucial [thing] is how he’s working tactically, taking part in completely different positions, defensively, offensively, and naturally, now he’s scoring objectives,” Emery stated. “I have to push him typically.

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“He’s rising up so, so fast and performing higher and higher as a result of he has qualities – bodily, he’s sturdy, his mentality is big.”

How Villa wanted such tenacity on the London Stadium. After a stirring pre-match tribute to , West Ham channelled his spirit.

Ezri Konsa’s dawdling on the ball simply exterior the six-yard field allowed Mateus Fernandes to curve within the quickest objective within the Premier League to this point this season. Konstantinos Mavropanos’s personal objective, after he battled Ollie Watkins for a John McGinn cross, allowed Villa a swift equaliser. However one other comfortable objective, after Konsa performed Jarrod Bowen onside to permit the captain to information the ball in, gave West Ham a well-deserved 2-1 lead at half-time.

Emery minimize a truculent determine beneath his black coat for a lot of the sport, stewing at his gamers on the touchline. His frustration was comprehensible: Villa’s impotence was such that they created simply 0.04 anticipated objectives within the first half.

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But Emery couldn’t countenance an equally slapdash show within the second half. And whereas Villa had been removed from their most fluent, West Ham’s rising trepidation, after conceding the second equaliser, gave discover of why they continue to be 18th. Villa, too, stay of their similar berth: in third place, simply three factors off Arsenal.

After an unsure afternoon for stand-in keeper Marco Bizot, Emery will likely be significantly grateful that Emiliano Martínez is anticipated to recuperate from a again difficulty to return subsequent week.

Ought to Villa win their subsequent two matches – at residence to Manchester United and away to Chelsea – they might equal the membership’s longest-ever successful streak, set in 1914. Martínez, you observed, will know the place Villa might set a membership file for many consecutive wins: the Emirates, in opposition to his previous workforce Arsenal, on December 30.

04:32pm

‘I like how the gamers are responding’

Aston Villa supervisor Unai Emery talking to BBC Match of the Day:

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“We would have liked to maintain calm and be constant and demanding in our sport plan. We did every thing.

On Morgan Rogers’ second objective:

“I consider of their qualities and their confidence so in fact shoot.

“I like how the gamers are responding, how they’re getting the challenges we’re sending within the dressing room however now every thing is finished and we go once more.”

04:31pm

‘We have now to rectify the errors’

West Ham supervisor Nuno Espirito Santo talking to Sky Sports activities: 

“We didn’t management the sport, we conceded from a ball that was ours. We scored however the adverse is that we conceded three objectives that basically punished us.

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On defending in opposition to Aston Villa: 

“They’ve good gamers and particular person expertise that we should always have defended in opposition to higher.”

On dealing with defeat: 

“In the present day we’re unhappy and it’s painful for us and our followers that we didn’t win at residence. We have now to rectify the errors that we hold making on our defensive organisation. There’s a lengthy option to go and it’s as much as us to handle that and get out of this case.”

04:28pm

West Ham nonetheless wanting up

That painful loss retains West Ham within the drop zone.

04:16pm

‘We’re in a very good second’

Aston Villa ahead Morgan Rodgers talking to Sky Sports activities:

“We all know we are able to get again into any sport and we have now the struggle to win it. To get the three factors at present is very large, it’s an enormous win. We play for one another and we all know our duties. We’re in a very good second and we wish to hold it going.”

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On his objectives:

“I wish to try to get objectives for the workforce and I do know I’ve the qualities to take action. I’m grateful it went in however most vital the three factors. The second to win the sport was just a bit bit higher.”

On being title contenders:

“We don’t take into consideration that, we simply give attention to the following sport and try to win it and see the place it takes us.”

04:01pm

Full time: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 3

Aston Villa get the job achieved on the London Stadium. It’s six Premier League wins within the row for Unai Emery’s facet. Villa keep simply three factors behind Premier League leaders Arsenal.

Morgan Rogers was Aston Villa’s hero after scoring twice for the guests. The winner was a shocking effort. West Ham had their moments however Villa are simply so medical and ruthless going ahead.

03:55pm

90+3: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 3

El Hadji Malick Diouf goes into the referee’s ebook.

03:54pm

90 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 3

Rogers almost had a hat-trick! Villa are dominating now! Rogers skips previous Wan-Bissaka and fires one in direction of the far publish. It isn’t far-off but it surely does drift large.

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5 minutes have been added on. Time for a twist on the London Stadium?

03:51pm

87 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 3

Extra modifications from Nuno Espirito Santo. Soucek and Rodrigues are on. Potts and Magassa depart for the hosts.

03:50pm

84 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 3

Wilson is but to create a spark for West Ham within the remaining minutes of play.

One other likelihood for Aston Villa! Rogers takes intention from 22 yards once more however West Ham block it away.

03:45pm

81 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 3

That third objective for Aston Villa has compelled Nuno Espirito Santo into his first change of the sport. Callum Wilson comes on for Soungoutou Magassa.

03:42pm

79 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 3

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The floodlights are in full impact as we strategy the final ten minutes. And Morgan Rogers may properly have scored the winner: a luxurious right-footed strike from 25 yards out to place Aston Villa 3-2 up. West Ham, who had been 1-0 up inside 29 seconds and have dominated most the sport, look somewhat shellshocked.

03:40pm

78 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 2

West Ham are pushing for a 3rd objective and so they come shut! Bowen holds play from Summerville who will get half a yard contained in the field on the angle. However, he shoots large.

03:36pm

75 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 2

Unai Emery rings within the modifications as Buendia and Digne are on. Watkins and Maatsen go away the pitch.

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They really want to seek out some spark because the hosts at present look the extra possible winner on the London Stadium.

03:32pm

72 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 2

Villa have gotten to seek out some momentum within the final quarter of this sport. They haven’t kicked on since that equaliser and have as an alternative allowed West Ham much more time on the ball.

03:29pm

68 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 2

Malen has solely simply come onto the pitch however he has already compelled the West Ham goalkeeper to make the cease with Areola compelled to push away a curling shot from exterior of the field.

Right here we go, Bowen finds the again of the online for the second time this afternoon after some beautiful play by the hosts to play him by way of on objective however he’s rightly judged to be offside.

03:26pm

65 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 2

A change for Aston Villa. Donyell Malen comes on to switch Amadou Onana.

03:24pm

62 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 2

The guests  have but to claim their dominance on this second half and have allowed West Ham room to work themselves into the lead twice already.

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Unai Emery cuts a annoyed determine on the touchline.

03:22pm

59 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 2

West Ham are actually pushing for a 3rd objective. They drive one other nook and taking part in with extra danger. Villa are wanting shaky as they shield Bizot. Diouf hammers a volley again in direction of objective which deflects large.

03:19pm

56 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 2

An excellent ball from West Ham! Bowen places the nook proper on Bizot who appears everywhere. Summerville was placing Bowen underneath stress however an excessive amount of in response to referee Anthony Taylor who offers Aston Villa the foul.

03:15pm

53 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 2

West Ham are responding and rise up to the pitch on the counter. Wan-Bissaka wins his workforce a nook.

03:13pm

50 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 2GOAL!

Simply the beginning Aston Villa wanted within the second half. They’ve elevated their depth and Tielemans will get down the road with West Ham defence everywhere. His cross comes into the field finds Rogers who takes a contact and pummels the ball residence for 12 yards by way of two West Ham defenders.

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There’s the swift Villa response we anticipated. A beautiful easy end from Morgan Rogers, tucking the ball away along with his proper foot after a cross from Youri Tielemans. Umai Emery celebrates effusively – however he will likely be focusing on three factors, not only one.

03:09pm

47 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 1

We underneath manner once more on the London Stadium, Aston Villa are going to must ask extra questions of West Ham’s defence. No modifications for both facet.

03:08pm

Across the grounds

Manchester Metropolis are main Crystal Palace because of a objective from Erling Haaland. On the Metropolis Floor, Nottingham Forest are 1-0 up on Tottenham Hotspur courtesy of Callum Hudson-Odoi objective .

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In the meantime, within the north east, it’s 0-0 between fierce rivals Sunderland and Newcastle.

02:57pm

‘Count on Villa to return out with a really completely different really feel’

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Aston Villa arrived at London Stadium after eight consecutive video games in all competitions, together with 5 within the Premier League. However they’ve been wretched within the first half, conceding two sloppy objectives and missing any coherence in assault. Villa have created a derisory 0.04 anticipated objectives; their equaliser was an personal objective. Count on Villa to return out with a really completely different really feel after Umai Emery, who has been stewing on the touchline all afternoon, has had phrases.

02:53pm

Half-time: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 1

West Ham have the lead however have performed the frustration sport on Aston Villa. The guests have seen loads of the ball however didn’t have a shot till 44 minutes. Their objective got here from an personal objective by Mavropanos after Fernandes scored for West Ham after 29 seconds. Bowen then deflected the hosts into the lead.

02:49pm

45 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 1

What an opportunity for the guests. Morgan Rogers whips a shot from the left-hand facet of the field and its curls his shot in direction of the far publish.

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It isn’t far off because it narrowly misses the goal. Two minutes of added time have been introduced.

West Ham will likely be hoping they will go into the break forward.

What an opportunity! Summerville finds area simply exterior the penalty space however drills a weak try large of the publish.

02:48pm

43 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa

Now Matty Money goes into the referee’s ebook for a foul of Crysencio Summerville.

02:47pm

41 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 1

First yellow card of the sport is proven to Boubacar Kamara after he fouls Summerville. West Ham are awarded a free-kick in a threatening place which Lucas Paqueta and Freddie Potts are standing over.

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Nevertheless, its involves nothing, as it’s headed out by a Villa participant.

02:44pm

39 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 1

Summerville runs into the ultimate third however he takes an excessive amount of touches as West Ham look to counter and the prospect fades away from the hosts.

02:43pm

36 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 1

Aston Villa have dominated possession however West Ham have been medical with their probabilities. Unai Emery’s facet have already come again from behind as soon as and will likely be seeking to get again on degree phrases as shortly as they will.

02:40pm

33 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 1

One other likelihood for the guests, who work the ball properly once more and have a lot of gamers within the field. Kamara ought to have taken the shot however he tries to seek out one other go. West Ham are capable of regroup and clear the ball.

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Then Bowen will get into the field and flashes his shot throughout the face of objective.

02:37pm

30 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 1

Aston Villa pump a set piece into the field which Onana wins. His header throughout objective takes a few deflections and takes a slight nick of Todibo’s arm.

VAR checks however stays with on-field resolution of no penalty.

02:35pm

27 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 1

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Unai Emery, has been very vocal on the touchline all sport. Even after Aston Villa’s equaliser he was nonetheless remonstrating along with his gamers continuously on the touchline. A really comfortable second objective will worsen his temper additional. Ezri Konsa has now been at fault for each objectives: he misplaced the ball to Mateus Fernandes for the opener, then performed Jarrod Bowen onside for the second.

02:34pm

24 min: West Ham 2 Aston Villa 1GOAL!

Simply seconds after West Ham are claiming for a handball within the field. West Ham are again forward by way of their captain.

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Diouf is livid when a penalty isn’t referred to as by referee Anthony Taylor however he retains his head down and continues to ship in a cross and Freddie Potts’ blocked shot finds Jarrod Bowen, who’s performed onside by Konsa and pokes residence.

We have now a VAR test and the objective is given.

02:32pm

21 min: West Ham 1 Aston Villa 1

Right here we go, Aston Villa are dominating possession and asking all of the questions. West Ham reside dangerously right here.

02:30pm

18 min: West Ham 1 Aston Villa 1

All of the risk is coming from Villa is coming from the left wing as Morgan Rogers sends in one other high quality cross into the field, which is headed over once more by Diouf for one more nook.

02:26pm

15 min: West Ham 1 Aston Villa 1

That’s good play from the guests. They’re taking part in with such confidence as Rogers escapes down the left and delivers a superb ball that Diouf has to scramble over his personal crossbar.

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However West Ham’s backline clear the set piece however just for one other nook. Immediately, the London Stadium is eerily quiet.

02:23pm

12 min: West Ham 1 Aston Villa 1

Villa are nonetheless wanting comfy and taking part in by way of the midfiled however there’s somewhat an excessive amount of on the ball because it goes out for a nook, which Amadou Onana finally heads over after it was performed quick.

02:19pm

9 min: West Ham 1 Aston Villa 1

The guests are dominating possession and asking all of the questions. It appears the hosts are glad to sit down off and spring some counter assaults the place potential.

02:14pm

7 min: West Ham 1 Aston Villa 1GOAL!

And identical to that, Aston Villa are again in it!

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McGinn sends in a wonderful cross and the ball appears to overlook Ollie Watkins and bounces off Konstantinos Mavropanos to enter his personal objective

What a sport we have now on the London Stadium.

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After the preliminary euphoria at London Stadium, a chastening reminder of why West Ham are within the relegation zone. A really comfortable equaliser for Aston Villa: a terrific cross from John McGinn, after which a tremendous header from Ollie Watkins, who was abetted by some slack marking. Unai Emery, who had been very vocal watching a lax begin to the sport, now has one thing to cheer, however he’s nonetheless remonstrating along with his gamers continuously on the touchline.

02:13pm

5 min: West Ham 1 Aston Villa 0

Villa pin the house facet in their very own remaining third however Rogers is unable to seek out the area to get his cross into the field with the looming determine of Aaron Wan-Bissaka blocking his path.

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The ball rolls out however Villa preserving the stress on.

02:09pm

3 min: West Ham 1 Aston Villa 0

Unai Emery is chopping a annoyed determine on the touchline. Not a cheerful man. However loads of time for his facet to regain their composure on the London Stadium.

At 29 seconds, that objective was the quickest within the Premier League this season.

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Thirty-nine seconds is all West Ham have to take the lead. Ezri Konsa dawdles on the ball simply exterior the six-yard field, permitting Mateus Fernandes to intercept after which curve his end previous Marco Bizot.

02:05pm

1 min: West Ham 1 Aston Villa 0

Right here we go, kick-off on the London Stadium. Aston Villa are on this title race and have their eyes on preserving tabs on leaders Arsenal.

GOAL!

The hosts take the lead after 29 seconds. Ezri Konsa offers the ball away on the again and Mateus Fernandes drives into the field, dinking a shot over Villa goalkeeper Marco Bizot from a extremely tight angle.

The London Stadium sounds electrical!

02:01pm

Groups are out

The groups have emerged of the tunnel on the London Stadium.

An impressive tribute to the good Billy Bonds welcomes them onto the pitch. The West Ham followers bear in mind their nice No 4 with a rousing reception for Sir Trevor Brooking, Alvin Martin, and Bonds two daughters Claire and Katie forward of kick-off.

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A celebration of the lifetime of Billy Bonds, who made such an unbelievable contribution to West Ham over 27 years as a participant and supervisor, earlier than kick-off. West Ham will hope to channel Bonds’s spirit this afternoon: they want a win to get out of the relegation zone. It’s a wonderful winter afternoon right here at London Stadium.

01:55pm

Special occasion for Ollie Watkins

Ollie Watkins will make his two hundredth Premier League look on the London Stadium. The Aston Villa ahead has 78 objectives and 34 assists in 199 video games to this point, with solely 11 English gamers concerned in additional objectives of their first 200 video games, most just lately Jamie Vardy (97 objectives, 28 assists).

Ollie Watkins warming up forward of kick-off on the London Stadium – Getty Photographs/Dylan Hepworth

01:49pm

‘I don’t assume we’ve reached the usual we anticipate’

West Ham supervisor Nuno Espirito Santo talking forward of kick-off:

“We haven’t achieved a clear sheet but, so that’s one thing we have to do. There’s been enchancment, however not whole enchancment. I nonetheless don’t assume we’ve reached the usual we anticipate, so we’ll hold working.

“We have now been scoring and creating probabilities, so we have now to seek out the stability so we are able to compete all through each sport. We’ve been within the lead and conceding late on, however we’ve bounced again from outcomes, so every sport offers us new conditions to cope with and we’ll hold working arduous to get higher.

“Once we got here in, we needed to assess and see what we had, earlier than figuring out what we had been going to try to be. We wish to compete as a workforce, and function as a bunch, together with the entire squad. For us to enhance, it requires everybody.”

01:48pm

West Ham paying tribute to Billy Bond

West Ham have introduced a sequence of tributes, exterior to honour membership legend Billy Bonds at at present’s residence sport in opposition to Aston Villa.

The previous West Ham captain died on the finish of November, aged 79, and the membership are inviting supporters to pay their respects.

Their plans embrace a short lived memorial space exterior of London Stadium for supporters to depart a tribute and replicate on their recollections of the membership’s all-time look maker.

Inside the bottom, pre-match commemorations will start quarter-hour earlier than kick-off and numerous his former team-mates will likely be invited pitchside as a part of the tribute.

Simply earlier than kick-off, a “big choreographed visible show” will seem within the Billy Bonds Stand and “a interval of appreciation” for the previous Hammers captain will start.

West Ham followers paying respects to membership legend Billy Bonds on the London Stadium – PA/Jonathan Brady

01:21pm

‘We had been so poor initially of the season’

Aston Villa supervisor Unai Emery talking forward of kick-off: “I’m so proud of how we’re performing and responding collectively, regardless of a few of our gamers being out injured.

“We don’t really feel underneath stress. There are 38 matches in a season so a lot of factors to play for nonetheless and an extended option to go when it comes to being constant. We have now reached December nonetheless feeling good, however every match is a take a look at from right here on.

“First I have to say we’re in good type at present. Secondly, I have to say we had been so poor initially of the season. We simply must get pleasure from every second, compete in every second, and attempt to get the very best out of it.”

On West Ham supervisor Nuno Espirito Santo, Emery added: “His groups compete and struggle like he does as a coach, and they’re already taking part in significantly better than earlier than he arrived.”

01:12pm

An opportunity for Aston Villa to go second

Aston Villa arrive within the capital on the again of a five-game successful run within the Premier League and one other victory this afternoon might see Unai Emery’s facet finish the day as excessive as second within the desk.

01:09pm

This weekend Premier League fixtures and outcomes

Saturday:Chelsea 2 Everton 0Liverpool 2 Brighton 0Burnley 2 Fulham 3Arsenal 2 Wolves 1

In the present day:Crystal Palace vs Manchester Metropolis, 2pmNottingham Forest vs Tottenham, 2pmSunderland vs Newcastle 2pmWest Ham vs Aston Villa, 2pmBrentford vs Leeds, 4.30pm

Monday:Manchester United vs Bournemouth, 8pm

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12:50pm

Aston Villa workforce information

Unai Emery makes six modifications to the Aston Villa facet that began the Europa League victory at Basel on Thursday.

Ollie Watkins, Morgan Rogers, Youri Tielemans, John McGinn, Boubacar Kamara and Ian Maatsen are all restored, with Lucas Digne, Lamare Bogarde, Evann Guessand, Emiliano Buendia, Jadon Sancho and Donyell Malen dropping to the bench.

Watkins makes his two hundredth Premier League look at London Stadium.

Aston Villa XI: Bizot, Money, Konsa, Lindelof, Maatsen, Kamara, Onana, McGinn, Tielemans, Rogers, Watkins

Substitutes: Wright, Buendia, Digne, Garcia, Malen, Sancho, Bogarde, Guessand,, Hemmings

12:50pm

West Ham workforce information

Freddie Potts and Soungoutou Magassa return to West Ham United’s beginning XI for Sunday’s Premier League fixture at residence to Aston Villa.

The midfield duo substitute Maximilian Kilman and Guido Rodríguez. For 22-year-old Potts, it’s a sixth Premier League begin for the membership and his eleventh top-flight look in whole, all of which have been this season.

Magassa, additionally 22, makes his fifth Premier League begin and tenth top-flight look since becoming a member of from Monaco in August.

West Ham XI: Areola, Mavropanos, Magassa, Todibo, Wan-Bissaka, Fernandes, Potts, Diouf, Paqueta, Bowen, Summervilla

Substitutes: Hermansen, Walker-Peters, Kilman, Julio, Wilson, Rodriguez, Soucek, Scarles, Kante

12:43pm

Preview: West Ham face daunting take a look at in opposition to high-flying Aston Villa

Good afternoon and welcome to Telegraph Sport’s stay protection of West Ham United vs Aston Villa within the Premier League. The hosts have been underneath the management of Nuno Espirito Santo, however they’re removed from being out of the woods, and Aston Villa present one other stern take a look at.

West Ham followers had been hopeful when the previous Nottingham Forest supervisor took over in September, and whereas he has delivered higher outcomes, the hosts nonetheless discover themselves within the hazard zone within the Premier League desk.

In Espirito Santo’s 10 matches in cost, the London outfit solely received two video games, dropping and drawing 4 apiece, not the kind of type to flee the dogfight of relegation.

Their London Stadium type doesn’t supply a lot encouragement, since they’ve misplaced 5 of their seven league matches at residence, however the constructive is that the 2 victories they loved got here underneath this supervisor.

Regardless of getting into this sport on the again of consecutive attracts, it’s price noting that each stalemates got here on the highway in opposition to high quality opposition within the type of Manchester United and Brighton & Hove Albion.

In the meantime, for Aston Villa, after a five-game winless begin to the Premier League marketing campaign, Villa have compelled their manner into the conservation for the Premier League title.

Unai Emery’s facet are solely six factors adrift of leaders Arsenal, and after beating the Premier League leaders with the ultimate kick of the sport final week, the guests will likely be feeling invincible.

Villa beat FC Basel 2-1 within the Europa League in the course of the week to increase their present successful run to eight video games on the bounce.

The guests are unbeaten in opposition to West Ham throughout their earlier six head-to-heads, together with three wins for Villa, of which just one was on the London Stadium.

Full workforce information on the best way shortly.