We have had a good record against Blackburn in recent seasons. And of course last year Freddie Sears scored against them. I suspect he won’t be in the starting eleven this afternoon, but a repeat performance from him would be very welcome, and some would say long overdue.
The good news is that Kieron Dyer is likely to play some part, as he now recovered from his latest injury setback. Diego Tristan is also likely to play, I’d say. Blackburn are a very big, physical side and I’m not sure a front two of Di Michele and Sears would work. Indeed, it may be that Zola opts for a 4-5-1 formation as Cole is still suspended.
In midfield, both Stanislas and Savio are said to have minor knocks. Personally, I’d like to see more of Stanislas but recognise it is very unfair to drop Savio after one start. But if he is likely to break down injured, then best not to start at all.
In defence I have no idea if Matty Upson is likely to have recovered or not. If not, as I suspect is the case, Lucas Neill will deputise in the centre, with Jonathan Spector continuing at right back.
This is very much a second string eleven, but Blackburn are in a bad place at the moment and there is certainly the potential to get something from this game. We need to keep a gap between us and Fulham, Man City and Wigan, so three points this afternoon would do very nicely. This would be the team I would pick…
Green
Neill
Ilunga
Tomkins
Spector
Stanislas
Kovac
Noble
Parker
Di Michele
Tristan
If Savio is fit then i would place him over DiMichele (if you want Tristan’s size). If things aren’t going our way then Savio’s pace could be handy; if not i wouldnt put it past him to make a spectacular run past the defence.
sorry i should have added, 1-0 Westham
Green
neil kovac tomkins ilunga
LBM parker noble stansilas
Di michele Savio
Tristan no way!!
Or Spector only at right back with maybe neil centre and kovac instead of Noble.
well done you guys going today,cant make this one.
Sorry guys cant see where a goals gunna come from, best we can hope for is a 0 0 draw.
My hearts telling me 2 1 west ham.
My head tells me we will take a big slap today.
Will Dyer actually play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WEST HAM: Green, Neill (c), Ilunga, Parker, Boa Morte, Kovac, Noble, Spector, Tristan, Tomkins, Di Michele.
Subs: Lastuvka (GK), Lopez, Dyer, Sears, Payne, N’Gala, Stanislas.
Tristan oh dear!
Noble right midfield(probably) dont agree
anyone kno a stream? i see iraqgoals is down
Has anyone got a link to a live feed?
http://www.tv2free.com/ch2.html
already seen much better football from us in 10 minutes than i did in the entire west brom game.
Try this
http://atdhe.net/live-tv-5369.html
lucas mopping up everything
are blackburn down to 10?
no
Keep the faith fellow Hammers. We must and can beat a rather poor Blackburn. 1 or 2 nil. COYI
NOBLE. quality goal! he’s back!!
what a finish, great goal…
great finish after running the entire length of the pitch! boa just offside though, hope we score a couple more because i can already hear fat sam having a good old moan.
hope I don’t speak too soon… but… Blackburn look poor…
Great goal so i heard.
Who scored it though, it weren’t tristan was it?
my stream went down before the goal
Noble scored, outside of his right foot across Robinson and in off the far post.
Good move, great goal… Tristan assist.
Oh right nice, where you watching it CC?
Phew – well done so far. And Mr Zamora has scored for Fulham against Man U. So far so good
from the TV2free link from above… tuned in after 20 mins and picture has been perfect since…
http://www.tv2free.com/ch2.html
Match is online here:
http://www.tv2free.com/ch2.html
COYI
Good day for Nobes so far, 100th game and a goal!
Nice on, cheers fellas!
COYI
is the timing right on it? like in line with SSN?
timing was 5 minutes behind here
Blackburn defence looked shaky, if we keep them scoreless for another 20 mins, we’ll nick a second on the break…
thats the end of the scorelss plan anyway… b@stards..
this is getting ugly
Can’t believe I’m saying this, but Lucas my MOM so far
KEEP THE FAITH…………….
midfield has gone awol.. we need to get hold of the ball…
This is bad. First half we were ok but now….
subs for fresh feet, now please we look battered
Poor second half, but i BELIVE.
COYI we can do this
boys must have done some work on last ditch defending during the week .. its like 12 against 11 at times…
DDm off if he’s still on the pitch bring on Stanislas ?
Lopez on for LBM… he looks wrecked (LBM that is ..)
Blackburn r now playing very well.
LBM worked hard though
dyer coming on now… hope he’ll last the remaining 12 minutes…
Dyer is saving us right now.
Have to say I’m happy with a point. Only saw the very short highlights (first time in weeks we haven’t been live here in weeks, if not a couple of months), but Nobe’s gaol looked pretty good.
I was there at Ewood for the 7-1 shellacking we got a few years ago (a truly horrible weekend, and way too expensive to boot, but that’s another story), so I wasn’t expecting much.
How does Fulham’s win over the mancs affect the standings?
It was very exciting to see Dyer back. He could really add something to the team. He seemed to be confident of his fitness this time. The little cameos he played in at the beginning of the year were very hesitant. Think it is onwards and upwards now. Cole back for Sunderland.
Big apologies for my earlier post. I was watching a thread and saw on the tv that they said Zamora…. then goal. I didn’t realise that there had been handball and then penalty. Bobby didn’t score but still pleased that Fulham won and that the race for the top has been opened up. Even more pleased that Portsmouth beat Everton. A very interesting run in to the end of the season.