All Whites defender Winston Reid is battling to be fit for West Ham’s Premier League opener against Arsenal.
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The Hammers have taken a much-changed squad to face Astra Giurgiu on Thursday, despite being held to a 2-2 draw in the first leg at Upton Park last week.
The result is that Bilic is significantly reducing his team’s chances of reaching the group stages of the Europa League and the move is hardly guaranteed to prove worthwhile with a positive result against Arsenal.
Valencia joined West Ham from Mexican club Pachuca last summer after scoring three goals for Ecuador at the 2014 World Cup.
“Jimenez is close. We hope to get it done today or tomorrow”, Bilic said on Friday.
“Today I received great news as I will not need surgery, all the best!”
He was expected to be missing until October but he returned to training with the under-21 squad last week and now Bilic believes the England worldwide could play some part against one of his former clubs – at Anfield on August 29 or against Newcastle two weeks later.
In the end, it wasn’t long and it wasn’t so exciting as the east Londoners departed the league before the season proper had even started. “Some of them showed me that we can count on them”.
Slowly West Ham started to get their foot on the ball in the second-half as they went in search of the goal that would force the tie into extra-time, but were left wanting as Elliot Lee pushed his effort at the far post over following Josh Cullen’s deflected cross.
“Olympique Lyonnais inform that they have found an agreement with Manchester United over the transfer of Brazilian global defender Rafael da Silva who will sign a four-year deal in the coming days”, the club said on their official website.
O’Neill’s decision to rest eight first-team regulars rebounded as Villa lost 2-0 against CSKA, while their league form deteriorated too as they eventually ended up sixth. I made this decision, not only for this game but for the game in Malta (in the second qualifying round against Birkirkara). Still with Zarate, Nolan, Jarvis and Adrian there is enough quality in this side for Hammers fans to be confident that the team will give it a good go tonight in Romania.
Denis Alibec tested Randolph as the match entered the last 10 minutes, with West Ham unable to pose a similar threat at the other end.
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“I think the new manager is very good and likes to get things done properly”.
