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West Ham United name an unchanged side for a fourth consecutive Premier League game as they face Southampton at St Mary’s.
The three late August additions Kurt Zouma, Nikola Vlašić and Alex Král are on the bench and could make their Claret & Blue bows later in the South Coast debates.
Michail Antonio, who just scored four goals in August and was named Premier League player of the month, leads the squad against a side he was loaned to in the 2009/10 season.
He will be supported by Said Benrahma, Jarrod Bowen and Pablo Fornals, who scored his first senior goal for Spain midweek.
Declan Rice is the team’s captain in midfield alongside Tomáš Souček, the pair having represented England and the Czech Republic respectively in the international break.
At the back, Angelo Ogbonna and Craig Dawson start at the center-back, with Vladimír Coufal and Aaron Cresswell by their side.
Łukasz Fabiański, who kept a clean sheet against the Saints at home and away last season, will be looking for his first goal this season.
West Ham United: Fabianski, Coufal, Dawson, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Rice (c), Souček, Bowen, Fornals, Benrahma, Antonio
Subtitles: Areola, Fredericks, Zouma, Diop, Kral, Noble, Lanzini, Vlasic, Yarmolenko
Southampton: McCarthy, Livramento, Stephens, Salisu, Perraud, Elyounoussi, Ward-Prowse (c), Romeu, Djenepo, Redmond, A Armstrong
Subtitles: Forster, Walker-Peters, Lyanco, Bednarek, Valery, Tella, Diallo, Broja, Adams
Arbitrator: David Coote
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