West Ham v Brighton: Allardyce Reverts To Plan A

So the experiment with all out attack has been consigned to the bin and Allardyce is going back to Plan A - 4-5-1 or 4-3-3 or 4-2-2-1-1 or what other sort of tangled mess the misfitting parts form themselves into. Unless Vaz Te is up top with Cole and we actually have 4-4-2. God only knows!

The personnel will probably line up like this:

Green

Demel, Tomkins, Reid, Taylor

O'Neil Noble Lansbury

Nolan Vaz Te

Cole

Probably! Or like this:

Green

Demel, Tomkins, Reid, Taylor

O'Neil Noble

Nolan

Lansbury   Vaz Te

Cole

Who knows? Or like this:

Green

Demel, Tomkins, Reid, Taylor

Noble, Lansbury

O'Neil, Nolan, Vaz Te

Cole

Maynard and Baldock do not feature again and there is still no holding midfielder nor any genuine attacking width on the opposite flank to Vaz Te. So the team is a hotch-potch again, a mess. Where's Diop for example?

Still, we have Carew on the bench again so if things aren't going well....or if we take a 1-0 lead, both Carew and Collison are available to be brought on - the tactic has been tried before so why not give it another go eh Sam? And Collins is available too so if we are behind at half time, we could always move Tomkins forward into midfield! No Baldock and no Morrison of course. Too young. Too inexperienced. Too risky. This is the might of Brighton and Hove Albion remember!