Saturday’s 3pm kick-off between West Ham United and Everton at the London Stadium brings together two of the finest goalscoring midfielders in the Premier League.
David Moyes needs no introduction regarding the box-crashing talents of Tomas Soucek.
And only Morgan Gibbs-White of Nottingham Forest has scored more ‘non-penalty goals’ from the middle of the park than Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall.
What changes would you make to this team? Feel free to tell me how wrong I’ve got it 😂
A tally of seven, and a tally one of 2025/26’s most successful signings will hope to improve when Everton make the trip to South London on matchday 34.
In the build-up to David Moyes’ West Ham United homecoming, we at Hammers News asked our TalkingPoint readers to select the Everton player they would most like to see pull on the claret and blue.
Despite being offered England’s number one, Jordan Pickford, one of the division’s most adaptable, reliable performances in James Garner, and the mercurial, occasionally-unplayable Iliman Ndiaye, Dewsbury-Hall came out on top at the time of writing.
Fans select Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall as the Everton player they’d love at West Ham United
Dewsbury-Hall secures 36 per cent of the vote. Pickford finishes second with 30 per cent. Despite a run of five clean sheets in nine matches, Mads Hermansen is yet to win over every West Ham fan.
Garner picked up 23 per cent. Ndiaye, a distant fourth with only nine per cent.
“Dewsbury-Hall all day long,” one fan says in response to our poll. “He roams all over causing havoc, his distribution is second to none over 90mins. When he was out, Everton looked a bit lost.
“I hope he has an off day if he plays!”
If this is proof of anything, it is that the Hammers supporters are a lot more confident in their options out wide – Jarrod Bowen and Crysencio Summerville can turn a game on its head in an instant – than they are their central midfield options.
Everton head to the capital seven places and 14 points better off than Moyes’ old employers. The form of Dewsbury-Hall is a big reason why the Toffees – having circled the drain for a number of years prior to Moyes’ appointment – can dream of Europe with five games remaining.
Which Everton player would YOU most like to see at West Ham?
Our TalkingPoint users voted for Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall…
His most recent goal was a stoppage time equaliser in a 2-2 draw at fellow surprise packages Brentford. He almost single-handedly turned a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 victory away to Fulham.
And Dewsbury-Hall’s Old Trafford stunner on a night when Everton were forced to play over 80 minutes with ten men was the sort of finish grandparents tell future generations about in front of roaring fireplace.
Nuno hinted at a ‘new’ West Ham approach when they welcome a familiar face back to the London Stadium.
Whether this will be enough to stop Dewsbury-Hall finding those pockets of space inside the penalty area, time will tell.
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