West Ham take on Wolves at the London Stadium on Sunday and we could be without Ryan Fredericks through injury.
Hammers boss David Moyes spoke to reporters this afternoon and said that the 29-year-old right-back picked up a groin strain during our draw with Newcastle last weekend.
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Fredericks was substituted off at half-time and Ben Johnson came on in his place.
The former Fulham man was awful against Newcastle to be fair and he has been all season long. It was baffling why Moyes actually selected him in the first place but it was what it was.
He might not be playing again for the Hammers for a while…
West Ham injury update ahead of Wolves clash
The Hammers desperately need to win on Sunday.
West Ham have taken only five points from our last five Premier League games and as a result we have seen our hopes of a top four finish fade away. Meanwhile, Wolves have been absolutely flying.
Bruno Lage’s side have won six and draw one of their last nine Premier League games. They are now sitting just two points below us in the Premier League table with a game in hand.
West Ham have most of our key players available to face Wolves this weekend. Vladimir Coufal is out after undergoing groin surgery whilst Angelo Ogbonna is out for the season with an ACL injury.
David Moyes told Football.London how Ryan Fredericks will probably be missing as well:
“Ryan picked up a groin strain, not too bad, but we have Ben who is a young and progressing player and we are trying to develop him and he has done really really well in two or three different positions left-back, right-back and done well and we like him a lot and lets hope he continues to make progress.”
Big chance for Johnson
It seems as though Ben Johnson now has a really good chance to prove himself once again to Moyes.
He played regularly earlier this season before being displaced by Vladimir Coufal at the start of December.
The 22-year-old is our best right-back in my opinion and he didn’t deserve to be dropped for the underperforming Coufal. He’s really got to lay down a marker now and prove that the right-back spot is his own.
Nothing less than a win will do against Wolves on Sunday and not having Fredericks available will have no bearing whatsoever on our ability to do just that.
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