PREM: West Ham v Burnley preview

West Ham v Burnley preview

West Ham United will still be without captain Mark Noble when Burnley visit the London Stadium on Saturday.

Noble is still serving a three-match suspension after being shown a straight red card in his side's 1-1 draw with Leicester last weekend.

Meanwhile, Hammers boss Manuel Pellegrini insists the game against Burnley is a must win after seeing his side go four games without a win in all competitions.

"We must win," he said. "We have the same feeling or opinion after we finished the last games that we did well, that we created more options. We deserved better results but for some reason we are not getting the results that we want so three points against Burnley must be a game where we cannot fail."

Burnley have conceded nine goals in back-to-back defeats against Manchester City and Chelsea respectively but Sean Dyche insists his side can put those results behind them at the London Stadium where they won convincingly last season.

"They are not easy results to forget and we are not in the business of just brushing things under the carpet," Dyche said. "You have to know the realities and there is no doubt about it, the superpowers of the league are, this season, really laying down a hard, fast marker this early in the season.

"We want to take those games on, of course, and famously last year we did that against Chelsea and Manchester City, but the fact is they are not in our division. What we do have to do is make sure we are more competitive in these games, so we've made sense of the past two results and we'll move forwards, because we are not going to play those sides every week."

Pellegrini will hand left-back Aaron Cresswell a late fitness test on a groin problem.

Jack Wilshere and Andy Carroll (both ankle) are due back after the international break but Andriy Yarmolenko, Carlos Sanchez, Manuel Lanzini and Winston Reid are long-term absentees.

Aaron Lennon is available, while Jack Cork faces a late fitness test. Winger Lennon has recovered from the sickness bug that ruled him out of last Sunday's 4-0 loss to Chelsea, a game that saw midfielder Cork come off with an ankle problem.

Defender Ben Gibson (hernia) will definitely not be involved along with left-back Stephen Ward (knee) and goalkeeper Nick Pope (shoulder).