Last Updated: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:23
Midfielders Valon Behrami and Jack Collison should return for West Ham's trip to Stoke on Saturday but Scott Parker is suspended.
Behrami has fully recovered from an injury he picked up in last month's 3-2 defeat to Liverpool, while Collison has overcome a calf problem in time for the trip to the Britannia Stadium. However boss Gianfranco Zola is hit by the news Parker will not feature as he has collected five bookings already this term so he must face an automatic one-match ban.
Kieron Dyer, Danny Gabbidon, Dean Ashton and Luis Boa Morte are all set to miss out again with respective hamstring, calf, ankle and knee injuries as the Hammers look to end a run of six Premier League games without a win. Indeed Zola's side have won just one of their eight league games so far and sit 19th in the table.