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West Ham vs Chelsea LIVE: Andy Carroll scores brilliant header to give Hammers the lead against 10-man Blues

Jose Mourinho's defending champions travel across London to face rivals West Ham

Vaishali Bhardwaj
Upton Park
Saturday 24 October 2015 12:40 BST
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Welcome to live coverage of the London derby at Upton Park.

Kick-off: 3pm

• Slaven Bilic's West Ham are flying high in fourth place after leaving it late to beat Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park last week

• Jose Mourinho's Chelsea are still in the bottom half of the table but have shown improvement in the last week, beating Aston Villa and drawing with Dynamo Kiev

• West Ham are without centre-back Winston Reid because of a back injury, while loanee Victor Moses is unable to play against his parent club. Alex Song is still missing

• Enner Valencia could make his first start of the season for the Hammers

• Pedro and Loic Remy aren't close to return but not quite fit enough to appear for Chelsea

• Thibaut Courtois and Branislav Ivanovic remain longer injury concerns

• TEAMS:

West Ham: Adrian, Jenkinson, Tomkins, Collins, Cresswell, Noble, Kouyate, Zarate, Payet, Lanzini, Sakho

Subs: Randolph, Carroll, Valencia, Obiang, Ogbonna, Jelavic, Antonio

Chelsea: Begovic; Zouma, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta; Ramires, Matic; Willian, Fabregas, Hazard; Diego Costa.

Subs: Amelia, Baba, Oscar, Falcao, Mikel, Traore, Loftus-Cheek

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