Welcome to Upton Park and to the battle of the teams whose name begins with West. Tonight West Ham United play host to West Bromwich Albion.

Oh, what a waste! The Baggies break and it is 3 on 2. Thomas continues to bring the ball, but ignores Odemwingie and Dorrans who are up in support with him and hits a tame shot which is easy to save.

The ball is swung in to Cole, he plays the ball back to Parker and he slips in Dyer. The injury prone midfielder drills the ball across goal and wins a corner.

Odemwingie is slipped into the box, but he cannot work a decent shot and Green makes an easy save.

Tamas plays a poor ball to Cech which Parker jumps on to, but Cech jumps in and makes a recovering challenge.

Valon Behrami has averaged 5.22 tackles per game this season, making him the third busiest tackler in the division.

Piquionne trips Dorrans and that gives West Brom a free kick.

Dyer does well to step away from a couple of challenges, but his final ball is a poor one and that surrenders possession.

The free kick is played short, Dyer is played in down the right channel and the ball is cleared for a throw in.

Dyer attacks down the right, he plays the ball back to Piquionne and he is fouled by Jerome Thomas.

West Ham get us underway...

The West Ham fans are in good voice tonight. They are belting out "I'm forever blowing bubbles."

The players are in the tunnel...

Interestingly, Blackpool are resting ten players this evening. They play West Ham at Upton Park on Saturday.

So Avram Grant has made two changes this evening - he has selected Kieron Dyer and Pablo Barrera in the place of Victor Obinna. Roberto Di Matteo has brought in Peter Odemwingie, Graham Dorrans, James Morrison and Steven Reid with Marc-Antoine Fortune, Nicky Shorey and Simon Cox dropping to the bench.

TEAM NEWS: West Ham: Green, Gabbidon, Upson, Ilunga, Jacobsen, Dyer, Parker, Barrera, Boa Morte, Cole, Piquionne /// West Brom: Carson, Cech, Pablo, Tamas, Morrison, Brunt, Reid, Thomas, Dorrans, Scharner, Odemwingie

The traffic in East London at this time of day is a nightmare. Just ask West Brom, they only arrived at the ground at 1850 after being stuck in congestion.

WBA have only scored five goals in seven Premier League games on a Wednesday.

Tonight's referee is Mike Dean who is from the Wirral.

The Hammers will be without Mark Noble who has had his appendix removed. He joins long-term absentees Jack Collison (knee) and Thomas Hitzlsperger (thigh) on the sidelines. Also missing for the Irons is Tal Ben Haim (foot) and Zavon Hines (knee).

The Baggies last two matches have featured four red card, three of which were dished out to Roberto Di Matteo's side. Suspension had tonight ruled out Gonzalo Jara and Youssouf Mulumbu, however, Pablo Ibanez has had his suspension rescinded.