Match Thread Everton 1-1 West Ham United 29th September 20:00

Your Everton MOTM


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Interesting that Sporting Life now have another piece which is more positive about WHAM after Nuno...

Football betting tips: MNF​

1pt Jarrod Bowen to score anytime at 4/1 (Sky Bet)

1pt Lucas Paqueta to score anytime at 6/1 (Sky Bet, Paddy Power)

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Kick-off: Monday, 20:00 BST​

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It was no surprise to see Graham Potter leave West Ham, but the timing was odd.

24 hours after performing his pre-match media duties for this game the former Chelsea and Brighton boss was sacked. With the ink barely dry on that press release, recently jilted Nottingham Forest manager Nuno was appointed as his replacement.

It ends a painful spell for Potter, who won only six of his 25 matches in charge after following another disastrous appointment in Julen Lopetegui.

There is lots to say and write about both the Hammers' situation, and the fall from grace Potter has suffered since his days at Brighton, but given I'm writing this on Monday morning and Nuno's first game is less than 12 hours away, I'll leave all that for another day.

Jake has already looked at this match pre-managerial change, with a focus on West Ham's terrible record defending set-pieces this season; I won't go over the same ground.

Instead, I'm prepared to have a little faith in the new Hammers boss.

For Nuno to be starting his reign away from the London Stadium is a godsend. West Ham fans have shown more than their fair share of anger with their owners both in recent weeks and towards the end of last season, with it unlikely to be a coincidence the club have not won at home since February.

While results haven't been much better on the road, they have generally managed to make games more of a contest.

I'm not willing to go as far as backing the visitors, but with them such rank outsiders it is worth backing their most reliable men TO SCORE ANYTIME at big prices.

Captain JARROD BOWEN is 4/1 to find the net and LUCAS PAQUETA is 6/1; I'd probably be backing Tomas Soucek too if he wasn't suspended.

Bowen has scored twice in his last three matches, with Paqueta failing to score in the Hammers' last two outings but finding the net in the previous three.

For as wonderful a job as David Moyes has done since returning to Everton, defensively they haven't been completely certain this term.

Their three clean sheets from seven fixtures in all competitions have come against goal-shy Aston Villa, League One Mansfield and in their first ever home game at the Hill Dickinson Stadium where Brighton somehow failed to score from 2.43 xG.
 

Fullkrug is injured. Ideally they play Paqueta central as he is a liability.

Supposedly Nuno has banished JWP, which seems an odd move.

Interesting Wilson may start then, even if he is not "match fit". I think West Ham have started Bowen as a striker before so could go that way again.

who is JWP? is that Kyle Walker-Peters? He was on the books at Spurs when Nuno was there, but never played in a competitive game for Nuno and was on loan at Southampton so maybe Nuno didn't like the loan reports on him 4 years ago?
 

There’ll probably be a stand out performance from a player this forum spent all summer worrying we’d end how you them. Can’t wait for one of Soucek Wilson or JWP to have a worldie against us.
 
Obviously, with the last couple of results and their place on the table, the pressure is now on for a win here. Would feel disappointing otherwise, regardless of new manager. We need to find a couple results to keep us running until one of our strikers discovers form. And we really need our best player back...
 
Don't have a good feeling about this one. West Ham used to be a banker like paying Palace. Not been the case in recent times. Need a good team selection and everyone to be on it
 

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