West Ham Women are set to return to the Theatre of Dreams after their upcoming league fixture against Manchester United Women was rescheduled to 25 March from 26 March.
The decision to host the rescheduled fixture at Old Trafford arrives after a slew of WSL matches were called off amid a farcical weekend beset by frozen pitches and calls from fans and managers alike that change was needed to avoid recurrences.
The March fixture will mark the second time the Hammers are to play at the ground after falling to a 2-0 behind-closed-doors defeat to United in March 2021, with goals arriving from Lauren James and Christen Press and West Ham's Lauren Vetterlein seeing red less than 15 minutes from time.
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And West Ham will face another heady challenge as they return to Old Trafford to take on the current league leaders, who they suffered a 2-0 defeat to in the season's reverse fixture.
Marc Skinner's side boasts a 100% record at Old Trafford after three matches played under the lights.
And after packing out the stadium with a club-record attendance of 30,000 to watch United coolly dispatch Aston Villa 5-0, another record crowd is expected.
West Ham currently sit seventh in the table after slumping to successive league defeats to Manchester City and Everton following the turn of the year. The form is a far cry from that of the first half of the season, in which the Hammers sat just three points off fourth-place City heading into the winter break to mark their best start to a WSL season.
After his side's flaccid 3-0 loss to Everton on the weekend, manager Paul Konchesky urged his team to channel more ruthlessness in front of goal, while admitting the conceded goals - two of which arrived from set pieces - were "unacceptable".
West Ham travel to Liverpool midweek for their FA WSL Cup quarter-final clash before travelling to Wolverhampton for the fourth round of the FA Women's Cup.
The week represents a critical opportunity for the Hammers to find a rhythm to get their new year underway after two poor losses in the league before they face WSL title challengers Arsenal at home.
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