"One result doesn't change everything when you are inside the camp, media-wise it does of course, but I know how quickly these things can turn around.

"There is a lot of honesty in the group and I don't think they will need too much to affect their own response without my words."

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Steven Wyeth
Match of the Day commentator at Turf Moor

Form can be infuriatingly elusive: easy to relinquish, difficult to rediscover.

When West Ham beat Manchester United in September they had taken 10 points from the last 12 available, were fifth, and European football seemed a rational aspiration. Five winless matches later the Hammers are closer to the bottom three than the top four.

Autumnal signs of encouragement faded fast for Burnley too, a point and a place worse of than their visitors in 14th after three successive defeats.

The match offers both sides the chance to restore confidence before the international break, making another negative result all the more unthinkable.

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Burnley have lost three on the bounce, and are leaking goals in a way you wouldn't associate with them.

West Ham are without a win in five, and both are in the lower half of the table.

Not great days if claret and blue is your thing, so let's see how it pans out at Turf Moor today, shall we?

Striker Chris Wood returns after missing two games with a hamstring injury, with Phil Bardsley and Charlie Taylor also returning, with Taylor making his first start of the season - Matt Lowton, Erik Pieters and Jay Rodriguez all drop to the bench.

Burnley starting XI: Pope, Bardsley, Mee, Tarkowski, Taylor, Hendrick, Cork, McNeil, Westwood, Wood, Barnes.

Substitutes: Hart, Lowton, Brady, Pieters, Lennon, Rodriguez, Long.

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West Ham starting XI: Jiminez, Fredericks, Diop, Balbuena, Cresswell,Snodgrass, Rice, Noble, Fornals, Felipe Anderson, Haller.

Substitutes: Martin, Zabaleta, Yarmolenko, Lanzini, Sanchez, Ogbonna, Ajeti

Ryan Fredericks and Pablo Fornals are the two changes made by Manuel Pellegrini, with Pablo Zabaleta and Andriy Yarmolenko missing out.

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Come back at 14:50 GMT for the build-up to kick off.