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Tom Clark

Confirmed West Ham team vs Doncaster as Moyes makes seven changes with Antonio on the bench

David Moyes has named a strong side to face Doncaster Rovers in the fourth round of the FA Cup this afternoon at the London Stadium.

Following a good start to the year with four straight victories, West Ham will be hoping to make it a club-record five in a row to start off a calendar year.

Lukasz Fabianski remains in goal for the Hammers, after a late Darren Randolph knock meant the cup keeper was omitted from the team.

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The back four is completey changed, with Vladimir Coufal, Aaron Cresswell, Angelo Ogbonna and Craig Dawson all dropping out of the starting team to be replaced by Ryan Fredericks, Fabian Balbuena, Issa Diop and Ben Johnson.

Mark Noble returns to the side once more and will skipper the team from his central midfield berth where he is joined by Tomas Soucek, with Declan Rice on the bench.

The Hammers look to be lining up in a 4-2-3-1 formation with the attacking quartet made up of Manuel Lanzini, Said Benrahma, Pablo Fornals and Andriy Yarmolenko.

It could be a fluid attacking unit but we believe Fornals will start off the right, Benrahma on the left, with Lanizini through the middle behind Yarmolenko.

Antonio is on the bench in case of emergency. Moyes has wisely chosen to rest the 30-year-old ahead of a busy few weeks.

He has opted for Yamrolenko and did not have many options if he wanted to rest Antonio with young striker Mipo Odubeko not having trained for a week and no other striker available to him.

The substitutes bench is a strong one for the Hammers with all his regular first-team players all available to Moyes should they be required.

West Ham XI: Fabianski; Fredericks, Balbuena, Diop, Johnson; Noble, Soucek; Fornals, Lanzini, Benrahma, Yarmolenko.

West Ham Subs: Trott, Coufal, Dawson, Ogbonna, Baptiste, Cresswell, Rice, Antonio, Afolayan

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