West Ham travel up to Manchester for Saturday afternoons clash with United knowing that a win would give them the record of being the first team to ever beat Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United away in a single Premier League season and with the Hammers already three quarters of the way there manager Slaven Bilić will certainly fancy his team’s chances of pinching a win.
United meanwhile continue to struggle when it comes to goals having drawn their last two matches with PSV Eindhoven and Leicester City, adding to the criticism of manager Louis van Gaal’s desire to play a possession based game and while it does not providing attractive football for the fans makes the Red Devils almost impossible to beat, which is why they are just one point off the top of the table.
And while the prospect of facing a West Ham team in which the menacing Andy Carroll will be leading the attack it is wise to remember that the Hammers started last season on fire before fizzling out, and now after having gone four games without a win and missing Dimitri Payet and Diafra Sakho we can’t help but fancy United to win the match 2-0 with BET365 offering odds of 5/1.
Team news
Captain Wayne Rooney is missing with an ankle injury, with Phil Jones, Ander Herrera and Marcos Rojo also on the disabled list meaning that the back four just about pick themselves.
Jesse Lingard has however recovered from a hamstring injury, but with Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal thinking about who he will pick to play in the Champions League for the trip to Wolfsburg we could see Marouane Fellaini and Andreas Pereira – fresh from good run-outs in the Under-21s feature for a United team eager to get back on the score sheet.
Anyway with the trip to Germany simmering on the back-burner this is our team selection in what we hope will be an inspiring Manchester United win.
