Saturday 17 December 2016 15:09, UK
West Ham boss Slaven Bilic must decide whether to give Andy Carroll a second start in three days against Hull in the Premier League.
The striker, recently back from another long-term injury lay-off, played 80 minutes on his first start since August in Wednesday's 1-0 win over Burnley.
The Hammers are looking for their first consecutive wins in the Premier League in London Stadium, following a 1-0 victory over Burnley in midweek.
Mike Phelan's Hull, meanwhile, sit second bottom of the Premier League having won just one of their last 14 Premier League games. They are three points from safety.
Elsewhere for West Ham, Simone Zaza, Gokhan Tore, Reece Oxford, Sam Byram and Diafra Sakho remain on the sidelines.
Dieumerci Mbokani will return to contention for Hull's first trip to London Stadium. DR Congo international Mbokani boosts Phelan's options up front after serving a three-game ban and could go straight back into the starting line-up.
Phelan, who has no new injury worries, could make one or two other changes as the Tigers chase a first league win in six games, with midfielder Ryan Mason pushing for a recall to the starting line-up.
West Ham have won six successive league games at home against Hull City, not losing to the Tigers in a home league meeting since January 1990.
Hull City have seen a player sent off in three of their last six Premier League meetings with West Ham United (Mendy, Fagan & McGregor).
West Ham United have scored the highest proportion of goals from set-pieces this season in the Premier League (12/18 - 67 per cent).
The Hammers have conceded the most goals from open play in the Premier League this season (25), but have also scored the joint-fewest in this manner (6).
Dimitri Payet has created 56 goalscoring chances in the Premier League so far this season; 12 more than any other player.
West Ham have dropped a league-high 12 points from winning positions this season.
Hull City have conceded the first goal of the game on 13 occasions this season in the Premier League; more often than any other team.
The Tigers are on a run of six successive away defeats in the Premier League and they have failed to score in the last four of these.
West Ham's win against Burnley was huge. All of a sudden, if they win this on Saturday, they are further up the table and it is happy days. They may be able to go on a run from here.
Hull cannot win away, but they had patches against Tottenham. They played some good football, but they lacked that killer instinct.
PAUL PREDICTS: 2-0 (Sky Bet odds 13/2)
West Ham have been priced up by Sky Bet as the odds-on favourites at 8/13 to win at home to Hull on Saturday afternoon. The Tigers are out at 17/4 for a surprise win and the draw has been made available at 29/10. There is agreement among Sky Sports pundits Matt Le Tissier, Charlie Nicholas and Phil Thompson that Hammers star Payet should be backed to open the scoring at 9/2 with the online bookmaker. You can also get 2/1 for Payet to score in a win for the hosts at the London Stadium.
