David Moyes has made five changes to his starting XI to take on Burnley this evening with Michail Antonio and Aaron Creswell returning to the team following suspension.
Despite having his suspension rescinded on appeal Fabian Balbuena drops to the bench allowing Dawson to line up alongside Issa Diop at the heart of West Ham's defence.
Angelo Ogbonna has picked up an injury and is not in the traveling party to Burnley.
Aaron Cresswell has been deemed fit enough to start and comes back into the team in place of Ryan Fredericks who drops to the bench.
Vladimir Coufal starts at right-back making his 18th straight league appearance, the Czech defender has settled into life at West ham with ease missing just one league games all season.
The newly named Goalkeeper of the Year at the London Football Awards Lukasz Fabianski starts in goal aiming to keep his tenth league clean sheet of the season.
Further forward Declan Rice has not returned in time for this encounter and club captain Mark Noble has not made the matchday squad after picking up an injury against Chelsea.
Tomas Soucek and Pablo Fornals start in the heart of midfield with Manuel Lanzini joining them.
Michail Antonio starts for the first time since the 3-2 win against Wolves and is joined in attack by Said Benrahma and Jesse Lingard.
Jarrod Bowen drops to the bench following three successive starts and is joined by Mipo Odubeko as the attacking option.
Youngsters Conor Coventry and Frederick Alves join Fredericks, Balbuena and Ben Johnson as defenisve options should Moyes need them.
West Ham XI: Fabianski, Coufal, Diop, Dawson, Cresswell, Soucek, Fornals, Lanzini, Benrahma, Lingard, Antonio.
Substitutes: Randolph, Trott, Balbuena, Alves, Johnson, Coventry, Fredericks, Bowen, Odubeko.
