Coping with Covid
In recent months, West Ham have been struggling with a defensive injury crisis and in the past few weeks a number of players have missed matches after positive COVID tests.
Injuries to Kurt Zouma, Angelo Ogbonna, Aaron Cresswell, Vladimir Coufal, Ben Johnson, Ryan Fredericks and Mark Noble have stretched the Hammers squad to its limits and since mid-December West Ham have had to deal with COVID absentees as well as Said Benrahma being unavailable due to AFCON duty.