{"id":251405,"date":"2025-11-08T14:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T14:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251405\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T14:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T14:41:15","slug":"west-ham-get-late-injury-boost-to-key-star-as-nuno-espirito-santo-spared-big-change-for-burnley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251405\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham get late injury boost to key star as Nuno Espirito Santo spared big change for Burnley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nuno Espirito Santo has been weighing up a major change to his West Ham team for the crucial six-pointer with Burnley but now there\u2019s been a late twist.<\/p>\n

West Ham<\/a> welcome Burnley to the London Stadium<\/a> knowing a 3-0 win would elevate them out of the Premier League<\/a> relegation zone.<\/p>\n

The Hammers pulled off a superb and surprise 3-1 win over Newcastle last weekend.<\/p>\n

It was undeniably West Ham\u2019s best and most complete 90-minute performance for nearly two years.<\/p>\n

Now Nuno Espirito Santo<\/a> is looking to add another feather to his Hammers cap by leading the club to back-to-back Premier League wins for the first time since December 2023.<\/p>\n

Nuno finally finds a settled side at West Ham<\/p>\n

Logic says West Ham should be confident of victory after deservedly beating Champions League Newcastle.<\/p>\n

But the Hammers and logic rarely belong in the same sentence.<\/p>\n

Many cynics would argue it would be typical of West Ham to pull off a result against a team like Newcastle only to lose at home to a relegation rival in the next game.<\/p>\n

It felt like a penny dropped in the victory over the Magpies, though.<\/p>\n

The proof will come in the performance and result against the Clarets, though, with West Ham determined to go into the November international break on a positive note.<\/p>\n

\"NunoPhoto by Kevin Hodgson\/MI News\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The big battle for Nuno since his arrival has been finding and settling on a consistent team selection.<\/p>\n

His left-field changes and choices in the woeful defeats to Brentford and Leeds saw Nuno face criticism for the first time as Hammers boss.<\/p>\n

The Portuguese came to his senses against Newcastle, though, with a starting XI much more in line with the thinking and expectations of fans.<\/p>\n

It worked too and many feel that was partly down to Nuno starting with an actual recognised striker in Callum Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The experienced former England man had been snubbed by Nuno until he was forced to bring him on as a substitute at Leeds.<\/p>\n

West Ham get late injury boost to key star Wilson<\/p>\n

Wilson started against Newcastle and helped West Ham with their shape, giving them something to build off.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old came off in the second half, replaced by midfielder Tomas Soucek.<\/p>\n

And the reason why became clear this week when Wilson missed training due to a knock.<\/p>\n

Nuno faced a dilemma with Wilson a major doubt for Burnley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That was a real shame for the Hammers because Wilson has 12 goals against Burnley in his last 12 games against them.<\/p>\n

But now West Ham have received a late injury boost to a key star as Nuno is spared a big change for Burnley.<\/p>\n

\"CallumPhoto by Rob Newell \u2013 CameraSport via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Wilson, who has a long history of injuries, missed training this week after the Newcastle win.<\/p>\n

That was confirmed by the fact he was nowhere to be seen in video released from West Ham in training as they geared up for the Clarets.<\/p>\n

Nuno also revealed in his pre-match press conference that some players were doubts after picking up knocks against Newcastle.<\/p>\n

Wilson was one of those players while Aaron Wan-Bissaka<\/a> was said to be another nursing a slight knock.<\/p>\n

Losing Wilson, with Niclas Fullkrug also sidelined until after the break, would have forced Nuno to make a big call up front.<\/p>\n

Nuno spared big change for Burnley after Wilson \u2018OK\u2019<\/p>\n

Whether that be starting young Callum Marshall or the likes of Jarrod Bowen, Lucas Paqueta or even Soucek deputising there.<\/p>\n

But Hammers News has spoken to a top source inside the club ahead of the game and they had great news regarding Wilson.<\/p>\n

While it has not been confirmed whether Wilson has been passed fit to face the Clarets, a top West Ham source told Hammers News: \u201cI don\u2019t know (if he is available to start).<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he was OK on Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n

That means Nuno may not have a selection headache after all.<\/p>\n

He was having to mull over who to bring in to replace Wilson but now he is expected to line up with the same team which started against the Magpies.<\/p>\n

Predicted West Ham starting XI for Burnley:<\/p>\n

Areola, Wan-Bissaka, Kilman, Todibo, Diouf, Potts, Fernandes, Paqueta, Summerville, Bowen, Wilson.<\/p>\n

The official team will be announced at 1.45pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nuno Espirito Santo has been weighing up a major change to his West Ham team for the crucial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31323,59,45733,221,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-251405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-callum-wilson","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-nuno-espirito-santo","11":"tag-premier-league","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}