West Ham United are the last team to play in this weekend’s round of fixtures so the pressure will be on either way.
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The Hammers travel to Turf Moor for a tough-looking match against in-form Burnley at 8pm on Monday evening.
David Moyes’s side will at least know exactly where they stand ahead of kick-off.
West Ham will know exactly where they stand before they take on Burnley in last game of the weekend
It is looking increasingly like a five-team battle for fourth spot and that last Champions League place.
West Ham go into the weekend’s fixtures in fifth hoping for results to go their way elsewhere.
But Moyes can only control what his team does in their remaining five games. Win four of them and that could be enough to qualify for Europe’s top competition.
Burnley will be no pushovers and have had a habit of making West Ham’s life difficult over the years.
West Ham may have lost their last two games but deserved to at least draw in both.
This is a different West Ham team under Moyes. They can stand up to the physical threat Burnley offer.
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But injuries look set to continue to deny Moyes of two of his best players in the shape of Declan Rice and Michail Antonio.
West Ham should be boosted by the return of Aaron Cresswell and Arthur Masuaku, though, while Craig Dawson is available again after a one-game ban.
Pablo Fornals did not have his best game against Chelsea. But his workrate and ability on the ball in transition make him a must for this.
Dawson, Cresswell and Masuaku all come back in from the start despite Ryan Fredericks doing very little wrong against Chelsea.
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Moyes will then have Manuel Lanzini, Andriy Yarmolenko, Fredericks and Said Benrahma to call on from the bench if needed.
And Issa Diop simply has not convinced so he drops out for Dawson as West ham look to combat the aerial threat of Sean Dyche’s side.
There will be a number of changes to the West Ham side which started last time out against Chelsea.
This is how Moyes must line-up to take on the Clarets:
Fabianski, Coufal, Ogbonna, Dawson, Cresswell, Masuaku, Noble, Soucek, Fornals, Lingard, Bowen.
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