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David Moyes provides injury update ahead of West Ham's Premier League clash with Liverpool

David Moyes has provided an update on West Ham's fitness ahead of their trip to face Liverpool in the Premier League on Saturday evening.

Tomas Soucek is the latest doubt heading into the clash at Anfield after the midfielder received a nasty cut to the face against Southampton in the FA Cup, which required stitches.

Moyes also delivered updates on the fitness of Ryan Fredericks and Arthur Masuaku, also revealing that Ukrainian winger Andriy Yarmolenko would not travel.

The club have made the decision to allow Yarmolenko more time with his family as the Russian invasion of his home country continues.

"Like everybody we have a few injuries and some coming back," he told his pre-match press conference on Friday.

"Ryan Fredericks is a bit better and so is Arthur [Masuaku]. We have a concern about [Tomas] Soucek because of the stitches."

Having lost in midweek to Southampton in the fifth round of the FA Cup, the focus will be on challenging a Liverpool side the Hammers beat 3-2 in the reverse fixture.

However, Moyes confirmed that Yarmolenko would not be part of the travelling squad.

"He has been training but he won't travel to Liverpool with us, he is not quite ready and we need to give him every opportunity we can for his family and for his country," the Scot confirmed.

"We can only give him our full support. We continually ask if there's anything we can do. It's a difficult situation. I spoke with him this morning. It's really difficult because nobody's been in these circumstances before.

"Coming into training sometimes makes things feel a bit better for him. We want to do everything we possibly can for him and his family.

"I feel helpless in as much as we as a country, not just me as a manager, feel like we can't do enough. We're all helpless really."

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