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Both teams are unchanged, next. Timothy Castagne, who fractured an eye socket during Euro 2020, is back on the Leicester bench.
West Ham (4-2-3-1) Fabianski; Coufal, Dawson, Ogbonna, Cresswell; Rice, Soucek; Bowen, Benrahma, Fornals; Antonio.
Substitutes: Areola, Diop, Fredericks, Johnson, Baptiste, Lanzini, Noble, Coventry, Yarmolenko.
Hello and welcome to live coverage of West Ham v Leicester from the London Stadium. It’s wrong to say these two teams, who finished sixth and fifth last season, were the best of the rest. In fact they were the rest of the best. If we’re going to celebrate and capitalise the Big Six, then we should give appropriate credit when other sides inconvenience that particular cabal - especially as West Ham and Leicester were both only one win away from qualifying from the Champions League.
Their task now is to do it again, or in Leicester’s case to stay the Champions League course a few weeks longer. They have finished fifth in each of the last two seasons, and have enough good things in place to hang around the upper echelons of the Premier League and threaten the whole BS concept.
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