Good afternoon and welcome to LIVE coverage of West Ham's Visit to Southampton. Full team news is on the way but here's the headline - Jose Fonte starts against the club he played for for seven years.

During his seven years with Southampton Fonte won two promotions, the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy and the club’s Player of the Season award twice. Football fans are fickle beasts, but he’ll surely get a good reception from the home fans today.

Mind you, even the devil's probably more popular at St Mary's than Redknapp these days. Alan Pardew meanwhile signed Fonte during his time as Saints boss.

Talk of the devil.

West Ham's last win at Southampton was in 2000 when Freddy Kanoute, Stuart Pearce and Trevor Sinclair all scored as they came out on top 3-2. A certain Harry Redknapp was in the dugout that day.

The Irons have never won at St Mary’s, losing three of their seven visits.

West Ham are a place and a point better off than Southampton in the Premier League table, sitting 11th with 28 points before kick-off.

West Ham also hand a full debut to a high-profile January addition.

Manolo Gabbiadini, Southampton's new record signing, starts after arriving from Napoli on deadline day. Claude Puel makes four changes in total from the side that lost at Swansea with James Ward-Prowse, Sofiane Boufal and Jay Rodriguez also coming in.