The first article following pre-season games to find out who’s in form, how the teams will line up and what fantasy premier league bargains are out there. We will follow the newly promoted teams closely as there is less of a knowledge base from previous fantasy premier league seasons.
West Ham played the first pre-season game of any note on Monday losing to the most successful Austrian Club of all time, apparently, although last season they finished 4th.
Here was our fantasy premier league pre-season summary of how expected them to line up
FFGEEK PRE-SEASON VIEW
WEST HAM
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PREDICTED LINEUP 4-4-2
Jaaskelainen – Reid Tomkins McCartney O’ Brien -Diame Collison Noble Nolan – Vaz Te Cole
Probably only one place up for grabs in the defence between Guy and Joey O’Brien at the moment. Midfield will be hard to pick and Vaz Te seems the only certainty up front.
GAME DETAILS
It was the literal friendly game of 2 halves with West Ham lining up as follows:
1st half – Henderson, Spence, Tomkins, Reid, Potts, Taylor, Diame, Morrison, Lletget, Cole, Baldock
2nd half – Jaaskelainen, Lletget, Spence, Potts, McCartney, Morrison, Noble, Nolan, O’Neil, Maynard, Vaz Te
West Ham lost 3-1 despite taking the lead early in the game from young striker Sam Baldock. They were 2-1 down at half time. The 2nd half saw a come back in terms of possession but it didn’t translate in to goals