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The Brummie Road End celebrates Albion's League Cup Final win over West Ham, the Hawthorns, March 1966

After a wretched performance and heavy defeat on the south coast last weekend, Albion will look to bounce back on Saturday at home to West Ham, who picked up their first win of the campaign on Monday night. If there's one good thing about the Brighton debacle, it's that it allows us to start from scratch with the line-up: no one gets to walk into the side based solely on their form in August. Put players who want to wear the shirt on the pitch, in positions they're actually good at playing in, and there's every chance that this week we might not be three goals down before we start to look like a football team.

With a tough League Cup fixture up next and our usual tricky Emirates trip looming, we could really do with a win to keep the confidence of the players up (not to mention us long-suffering sods). The Hammers didn't look especially convincing on Monday night: there should be three points for the taking here, as long as we can put out a team prepared to take them.