Match Day Thread West Ham v Leeds United

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West Ham United v Leeds United​

The atmosphere at the London Stadium this Sunday promises to be high-stakes, as Leeds United travel to the capital knowing that securing even a single point will seal West Ham’s relegation to the Championship. For Leeds manager Daniel Farke, however, the gravity of the occasion is complicated by a mounting injury crisis. Farke will be without Ilia Gruev, Gabriel Gudmundsson, and Noah Okafor.

key midfielder Anton Stach also remains side-lined with a minor ankle knock he picked up last weekend against Brighton. Furthermore, the squad will be without Sean Longstaff following his hernia surgery this past Wednesday. While there is a glimmer of hope with Pascal Struijk and Jayden Bogle returning to training, their inclusion remains subject to their physical reactions over the coming days.

Conversely, West Ham manager Nuno Espírito Santo heads into the survival showdown with a near clean bill of health, missing only Adama Traoré. The Hammers are expected to throw everything they have at Leeds, acutely aware that their Premier League survival hinges on both a victory and a favorable result in the Tottenham versus Everton clash. Leading the charge for the hosts will be captain Jarrod Bowen; fresh off the disappointment of his omission from the England World Cup squad, the talismanic forward is reportedly fit and highly motivated to spearhead the attack in what is arguably the club’s most critical outing of the season.
 
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I want to win but I also want Spuds to go down. what a mess it would make to them.
Be a Strange game for me to watch and follow.
Won't lose any sleep in relegating Wet Spam but the bigger picture even for us is to keep the team we are better than in the league who are also not financially sound and relegating a team who will obviously turn it around if they stay up.
 
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Worse case today, we lose and Spurs win. It wasn’t long ago that this might have been a relegation decider so even worse case, it’s not bad.

If we have several out through injury, don’t risk anyone we’re looking to move on, give some of the youngsters an outing

On the other hand, we could move up three places with results going our way, that’s about £9m on the table.
 
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ristac said:
Worse case today, we lose and Spurs win. It wasn’t long ago that this might have been a relegation decider so even worse case, it’s not bad.

If we have several out through injury, don’t risk anyone we’re looking to move on, give some of the youngsters an outing

On the other hand, we could move up three places with results going our way, that’s about £9m on the table.
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Realistically its 2 places, given that Fulham play Newcastle, so a win for either side means they finish above us. The best we can hope for in that game is that it ends 0-0, and at minimum we win 5-1. We need to win by 4 clear goals and scoring anything less than 5 would mean Newcastle finish above us on head to head games this season as our goal difference and goals scored would be the same.
 
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Although the spuds have been diabolical at home, Everton's recent form is abysmal and so I can't see the spuds not getting at least the one point needed to finish the hammers.... it's a pity they're not both on equal points then a spuds loss and a draw in our match would have been sufficient for the hammers... I'd prefer spuds down for the hilarious meltdown but as it stands the hammers are on the cliff edge <ok> ...sorry bubbles :emoticon-0128-hi:
 
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The West Ham vs Spurs argument is an interesting one. I want to see Spurs go down, so I'd happily lose against West Ham. If Spurs go down, I think it's going to take them years to come back up. That squad will be decimated, and they'll have to rebuild from scratch, plus there's the payments on the stadium. Relegation will financially **** them up.
 
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Keep it a draw whatever that is. the bench keep in touch of what's happening at Spuds put Meslier on the bench. Spuds losing 88mins bring on Mes same time get him to give a pen in 90+7 mins. thing is he prob will save it the only one ever for us lol.
 
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Watching champ play off final and Leeds would have beat either team.
 
Right result really.

On tomorrows game I'm still rankled by Spurs getting a free pass at Villa and while I don't want us to do the same (and I think we won't and that we'll win) I'd rather see West Ham stay up.
 
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