West Ham United v Leicester City: Premier League – live!

Earlier today West Ham proudly tweeted a photo of the new sign that they’ve erected in West Ham’s dressing room. But they’ve deleted their tweet in the light of extensive mockery. I’d like to think that in keeping with the back-to-basics approach hinted at by the sign, they went the whole hog and put an offensive one up in the away dressing room, along with turning off the heat, flooding the floor and smearing something unwholesome on the door handle.

Explaining the omission of Noble, Moyes says: “I just thought I wanted to bring in a bit more speed in the wide areas. Arthur [Masuaku] is very quick and direct and we need to get quicker support up to Andy Carroll.”

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It seems that Moyes has made a big call – and a correct call, in my view – by dropping Mark Noble, who has been below par for most of this season.

West Ham: Hart; Zabaleta, Reid, Ogbonna, Cresswell; Arnautovic, Kouyaté, Obiang, Masuaku; Lanzini, Carroll

Subs: Adrian, Rice, Noble, Quinn. Fernandes, Ayew, Sakho

Leicester: Schmeichel; Simpson, Morgan, Maguire, Fuchs; Albrighton, Ndidi, Iborra,Gray; Mahrez; Vardy

Subs: Hamer, Chilwell, Dragovic, King, Okazaki, Slimani, Iheanacho

Referee: M Atkinson

Hello and welcome to a fascinating Premier League

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showdown. West Ham and Leicester have both gambled recently on replacing their managers and neither yet knows whether their decisions will pay off. Leicester have started more promisingly under Claude Puel than West Ham have under David Moyes but it would be folly to start drawing conclusions already. That, of course, doesn’t mean there won’t be fevered gnashing and wailing from the fans of whichever side loses today, assuming we get a winner and loser. A draw will be no fun for anyone, least of all impartial MBM bystanders.

It is fair to say that West Ham need a win more urgently than Leicester, and not only because the East Londoners are four points worse off than the East Midlanders and giving off an unhealthy odour down in the relegation zone. Moyes’ appointment has done little to reassure Hammers fans, who wonder what it was about Sunderland’s omni-awfulness last season that convinced Messers Gold and Sullivan that Moyes was the man to inspire a revival at West Ham. Last weekend’s listless defeat at Watford did nothing to subdue the critics, but a strong performance in Moyes’ first home match might start changing Hammers’ hearts and minds. You never know.

For reference purposes, remember that Moyes’ first home match as Sunderland manager was a 2-1 defeat by Middlesbrough. His first home match as Manchester United manager was a 0-0 draw, as was his first home match as Preston manager. Gulp! But at least his Everton reign began positively, with a 2-1 victory over Fulham.

Puel boasts much stronger credentials than Moyes and has shown signs of improving Leicester from the admittedly small sample size of three matches so far. His team can be expected to be dangerous opponents here and have the attacking power and know-how to punish West Ham, who have had the Premier League’s leakiest defence so far this season despite not yet facing Manchester City. Rectifying that is surely the best place for Moyes to start and he’d probably take another 0-0 from his latest home managerial debut. Chances are, however, that’s not how this one’s going to pan out.