It is typical that having navigated a hectic start to the season with a remarkable run of good fitness fortune, it is a fortnight without a game that has the potential to throw up David Moyes’s first real injury headache of the campaign.
Jarrod Bowen and Michail Antonio, one or the other of whom has started up-front in all 12 of West Ham’s Premier League games this term, have both returned from international duty nursing knee problems, neither overly serious but worrying enough between them to throw a lack of centre-forward depth into sharp focus.
