For West Ham United, the team fitness news looks pretty good heading into the headliner fixture versus Manchester City. Tomas Soucek and Vladimir Coufal are back available for selection. Although there is a new availability question, in the form of Edson Alvarez.
The Mexican international is scheduled to return from CONCACAF competition duty to the team very late, and that could impact his availability on Saturday.
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“Now they play all different days,” manager David Moyes said in an interview with talkSPORT earlier today. “We’ve got Edson Alvarez who we don’t think we’ll get him back until late Thursday afternoon. It’s the same for a lot of clubs. We’ve just got to get on with it.
“But I’ve got to say, it will be really tough to get them back from those trips and then get them ready to play on the Saturday.”
While Soucek has recovered from concussion protocol and Coufal has healed up from a knock (both featured for their countries this international period), Konstantinos Mavropanos is still recovering from a back issue. Optimistically, you can classify him as a strong doubt.
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