Evening all, and welcome to Manchester United v West Ham United!

West Ham are more than capable of aggravating United tonight. Michail Antonio is in brilliant form and neither Victor Lindelof nor Harry Maguire are entirely equipped to deal with his cleverness, physicality and speed. And behind him, Declan Rice is also in fine form. He'll need to watch Bruno Fernandes, but Fernandes has lost a step with overplay, and is now flitting in and out of games, rather than bossing them. If he can kept quiet, United will struggle to create.

Strange but true: a point tonight and a point on Sunday, two in total, would be enough to take United into the Champions League, but three tonight and none on Sunday, may well not be.

West Ham, meanwhile, are unchanged from the 3-1 win over Watford that cemented their Premier League status for another season.

The headline news for United is that David de Gea starts, which seems the right call to me. He'll have been hurt by what happened on Sunday and what's been happening far too often in the last two seasons, but has earned one last chance. United are stuck with him in an event, so it's in their interest to rehabilitate him, and that starts now; should anything go wrong, his team-mates should be good enough to redeem him. .

Otherwise, Tim Fosu-Mensah is rewarded for his decent effort at Palace last week, replacing the clearly exhausted Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Brandon Williams plays at left-back.

Let's have some teams...

In some ways, this is Manchester United's biggest game since Alex Ferguson retired. For the first time, they look like a team on the way up, but to cement their status, buy better players and improve organically, they desperately need to be in the Champions League.

And they're nearly there. A win tonight takes them third, and will be enough on its own if Chelsea take two points or fewer from Liverpool and Wolves. Otherwise, United will need a point from their final game against Leicester, unless they win by three goals, in which case they'd be able to wear a one-goal defeat, by five goals, in which case they'd be able to wear a two-goal defeat, and so on.

As for West Ham, they are effectively safe, barring huge wins for others and huge defeats for them, but a point will make things mathematical. So they could be on the beach or they could fancy arsing up United's life, playing without pressure and helping their manager avenge the dreadful treatment he received in being fired by United for doing his appallingly. And it's live!