West Ham United v Crystal Palace team line-ups: Eagles unchanged despite heavy derby defeat in midweek
BY MATT WOOSNAM
Crystal Palace are unchanged for their trip to the London Stadium despite their humbling 3-1 defeat by rivals Brighton at The Amex Stadium on Tuesday night.
It is the fourth successive match in which manager Roy Hodgson has elected to name the same side, highlighting the paucity of options he has at his disposal. Cheikhou Kouyate retains his place in the centre of midfield alongside Luka Milivojevic to face his former club.
Christian Benteke remains some way off a return, whilst Connor Wickham is still battling back from multiple setbacks in his recovery from a long-term lay off.
It is just the solitary victory in nine Premier League matches for the Eagles, and their record away at West Ham in recent years is a poor one – with no victories in six matches.
But the Hammers are without star man Marko Arnautovic who picked up a hamstring injury in the win over Cardiff in midweek.
Crystal Palace: Hennessey; Wan-Bissaka, Tomkins, Sakho, Van Aanholt; McArthur, Kouyate, Milivojevic, Meyer; Zaha, Townsend. Substitutes: Guaita, Ward, Kelly, Schlupp, Puncheon, Sorloth, Ayew.
West Ham United: Fabianski, Zabaleta, Balbuena, Diop, Masuaku, Rice, Noble, Snodgrass, Anderson, Perez, Hernandez. Substitutes: Adrian, Cresswell, Carroll, Obiang, Ogbonna, Antonio, Diangana.
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