Olivier Giroud should get the nod as Gunners aim to stop the road rot: West Ham preview

In a few short hours we take on West Ham and it’s fair to say this game doesn’t look nearly as straightforward as it did two weeks ago.

Back then we have battered Huddersfield at home while West Ham was at the wrong end of a pasting at Goodison Park. This in itself tells you a lot: Everton have been struggling badly up to that point, going 4-1 and 5-1 down to Southampton and Atalanta respectively, earlier in the week.

However since then David Moyes was appointed. Initially laughed at, in part because of the Scotsman’s inability to keep Sunderland up last season, former Everton’s boss had quite an influence on the Hammers’ fortunes recently.

His team very nearly held City to a draw at the Etihad, and just this weekend bested Chelsea at the London Stadium. You can barely those results an aberration too: despite conceding quite a few shots inside the box,...