Mark Goldbridge has called for a West Ham points deduction over key player absences ahead of the Man United clash.
West Ham boss David Moyes is without a number of first team stars for the Man City clash and a half empty bench.
And one Manchester United super fan is not happy about it at all.
As reported by Hammers News ahead of the game, word in West Ham circles was that Moyes was going to rest a host of key players for the daunting Manchester City clash.
Now conspiracy theories are rife with no Declan Rice, Nayef Aguerd or Tomas Soucek in the squad to add to the absence of injured Kurt Zouma.
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It has left West Ham two players short on the bench too.
After Man City, West Ham welcome Man United to the London Stadium in the Premier League.
The Red Devils have been out of sorts of late. So that is being viewed as a much more winnable match.
The official line from West Ham is that Rice, Aguerd and Soucek were taken ill overnight.
But one talkSPORT presenter and Manchester United nut believes Moyes has deliberately left the trio out of the squad.
Mark Goldbridge has called for a West Ham points deduction over key player absences ahead of Man United clash.
Mark Goldbridge calls for West Ham points deduction over key player absences ahead of Man United clash
“Should get a points deduction leaving that many big players out,” Man United super fan Goldbridge said on Twitter after seeing the Hammers line-up.
“Makes a mockery of the league.”
Perhaps just as important as Sunday’s clash with Man United is the fact AZ Alkmaar come to town for the first leg of West Ham’s huge Europa Conference League semi-final next Thursday night.
Last season, with a Europa League semi-final looming large for the Hammers, Moyes went full strength in a league game against Arsenal.
West Ham ended up losing that match and the European semi-final with the Scot criticised for failing to rest key players.
Whether Moyes has learned a lesson from that situation or the players are genuinely ill – we’ll probably never know.
But almost a year to the day there is huge irony that the Scot’s change of approach could now come back to haunt the Gunners.
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