West Ham United’s players have been training ahead of their Europa Conference League quarter-final first leg against Gent in Belgium on Thursday evening.
The Hammers’ players started their pre-match training session around at 11:15am on Wednesday morning and are due to fly to Belgium on Wednesday afternoon ahead of their first leg tie against the Buffalos, playing host to them a week later at the London Stadium.
football.london attended the open section at the start of training to get a glimpse at who did and did not train ahead of the Hammers’ second visit to Belgium this season.
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In total, 24 players were part of the first-team training session ahead of their 11th European match of the campaign, having won all ten so far.
Of that 24 included 22 of the 23 players officially in David Moyes’ senior squad, with the only absentee being striker Gianluca Scamacca, who remains sidelined with a knee injury and is not set to return until later this month at the earliest.
Midfielder Lucas Paqueta, who was left out of Saturday’s 1-0 win over Fulham due to a foot injury, was however involved. Paqueta was also videoed in training on Tuesday.
Two academy players did train in the session, with fourth-choice goalkeeper and Hungary international Krisztian Hegyi taking part. Striker Divin Mubama, who scored his first senior goal in this competition against AEK Larnaca last month, was also part of the group.
Here is the full list of 24 players who trained in the session ahead of facing Gent on Thursday night.
Full list of 24 players in West Ham’s open training session
Goalkeepers : Lukasz Fabianski, Alphonse Areola, Joseph Anang
Defenders : Vladimir Coufal, Thilo Kehrer, Ben Johnson, Kurt Zouma, Nayef Aguerd, Angelo Ogbonna, Aaron Cresswell, Emerson
Midfielders : Declan Rice, Tomas Soucek, Lucas Paqueta, Flynn Downes, Jarrod Bowen, Manuel Lanzini, Said Benrahma, Pablo Fornals, Maxwel Cornet
Strikers: Michail Antonio, Danny Ings
Academy players : Krisztian Hegyi, Divin Mubama
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