{"id":291366,"date":"2025-11-30T12:23:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T12:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/291366\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T12:23:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T12:23:04","slug":"west-ham-star-spotted-in-training-ahead-of-liverpool-clash-amid-injury-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/291366\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham star spotted in training ahead of Liverpool clash amid injury concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nuno Espirito Santo may have received an injury boost ahead of Liverpool\u2019s visit to the London Stadium to take on West Ham United.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese will be looking to take his team further away from the relegation zone and compound misery on Arne Slot\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hammers.news\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Ham United<\/a> go into this one on the back of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hammers.news\/match-report\/max-kilman-controversy-sees-clear-verdict-issued-in-bournemouth-v-west-ham-clash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-2 draw against Bournemouth<\/a>, while Liverpool are on the back of two humiliating home defeats, putting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hammers.news\/columnist\/liverpool-could-make-arne-slot-sack-decision-post-west-ham-united-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slot in serious sack danger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2248678461-1024x691.jpg\" alt=\"Arne Slot looks dejected as Liverpool lose to PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League\" class=\"wp-image-286731\" \/>Photo by Carl Recine\/Getty ImagesKonstantinos Mavropanos spotted in training for Liverpool clash<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hammers.news\/tag\/konstantinos-mavropanos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Konstantinos Mavropanos<\/a> has been spotted in first-team training ahead of the game against Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham\u2019s official website shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whufc.com\/en\/news\/training-gallery-or-hammers-focus-on-liverpool-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">images<\/a> of the training session and the Greece international was seen in training with the rest of the team.<\/p>\n<p>Nuno stated in the pre-match press conference that the 27-year-old will be assessed ahead of the game against the defending champions.<\/p>\n<p>Mavropanos has been ruled out with a thigh injury for the last few weeks, but appears to have trained normally ahead of Sunday\u2019s match.<\/p>\n<p>He has been absent from the matchday squad since the 2-0 defeat against Brentford on 21 October.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, he played the full 90 minutes in five of the Hammers\u2019 eight Premier League games.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2230423312-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Konstantinos Mavropanos ahead of Sunderland v West Ham United - Premier League\" class=\"wp-image-275705\" \/>Photo by Ian MacNicol\/Getty ImagesWill Mavropanos start for West Ham United vs Liverpool?<\/p>\n<p>Nuno will undoubtedly have a decision to make on Mavropanos ahead of the Liverpool game.<\/p>\n<p>After being out for over a month, there will be some sluggishness that he may have to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>That means he may not be at 100 per cent and may need to be eased into the side.<\/p>\n<p>It could mean giving him 60 minutes and then taking him off, but that\u2019s a call that the medical staff will have made in the days leading up to the game.<\/p>\n<p>Max Kilman\u2019s abject display against Bournemouth suggests that if there is an alternative option, Nuno is likely to go for it.<\/p>\n<p>It will also be interesting to see whether or not he persists with a back three or moves to a back four in order to avoid getting outplayed in the middle of the park.<\/p>\n<p>  Join Our Newsletter <\/p>\n<p>Receive a digest of our best West Ham content each week direct to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nuno Espirito Santo may have received an injury boost ahead of Liverpool\u2019s visit to the London Stadium to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,76549,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-291366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-konstantinos-mavropanos","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291366","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=291366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}