Welcome to our LIVE coverage of West Brom's match against West Ham at the Hawthorns.

Big Sam Allardyce sounded very wary of a team that's finally found a bit of form when he spoke earlier in the week: "They’ll be tough, really tough. They’ve had a resurgence and I think at their own ground they’ve been slow close to so many victories and only slipped up in the dying seconds. We don’t want to be in that position where we’re trying to fight our way back from being behind."

Pepe Mel is confident that his men can win today if they treat the game as - you guessed it - a cup final: "This is the final – only one match. At the end of the game, when we all go to our homes, the Premier League must be over for us [having survived]. If we lose the game we may well have to go on until the Stoke game, which wouldn’t be very good for our hearts."