Predicted: Nuno makes nine West Ham changes for Bournemouth after Jean-Clair Todibo call

West Ham will look completely different when they line up for a huge game against Bournemouth at the London Stadium on Saturday evening.

Nuno Espirito Santo will be ringing the changes when West Ham host the Cherries as they look to take a massive step towards securing Premier League safety.

The Hammers are standing at a potential crossroads for their survival hopes when Bournemouth come to east London.

Having looked relegation certainties after throwing away a 1-0 lead to lose 2-1 to Nottingham Forest last month, West Ham have been completely revived.

West Ham stand at survival crossroads against Bournemouth

Five wins from seven games, which could and should be seven from seven, has not only breathed life into West Ham’s survival hopes but it has dragged several clubs into the relegation battle.

Victory for the Hammers against Bournemouth would pull them level on 27 points with Nottingham Forest.

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A win by four goals would actually lift West Ham out of the relegation zone for only the third time all season long.

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Victory is key, though, as it piles pressure on Nottingham Forest, who face Liverpool on Sunday.

A West Ham win, Forest defeat and a four-goal swing between the two games would see the Irons in the safety of 17th heading into the last 11 games of the season.

Bournemouth at home is one of six games Nuno Espirito Santo has targeted for West Ham to win to secure survival.

But the Cherries will be no pushovers despite losing Antoine Semenyo to Man City in January.

In fact Andoni Iraola’s side have improved in every key metric since the Ghanaian winger’s departure.

West Ham have experienced something similar, improving markedly since Lucas Paqueta’s exit.

Given what is at stake, Nuno cannot afford to make mistakes when it comes to team selection.

And he has some big decisions to make for what is a mammoth game for West Ham’s hopes and chances of staying in the top flight.

We predict Nuno will make nine West Ham changes for Bournemouth after a big call on the returning Jean-Clair Todibo.

Nuno makes nine West Ham changes after Todibo call?

French defender Todibo had been one of West Ham’s most improved players since Nuno’s arrival.

But he admitted he let himself, his teammates, the manager and the fans down when he was sent off for choking Joao Pedro in the defeat to Chelsea.

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That pushed West Ham to secure the signing of his compatriot Axel Disasi on loan from Chelsea for the rest of the season.

Disasi has been excellent in Todibo’s absence, despite having not played competitive football since last April.

Todibo has now served his three-game ban and it gives Nuno a selection dilemma for the clash with Bournemouth.

The Portuguese made a raft of changes for the FA Cup win over Burton.

Now he will do the same again for the visit of Bournemouth.

Mads Hermansen will come back in for Alphonse Areola in goal as change number one.

Nuno should revert to a back four with Aaron Wan-Bissaka and El Hadji Malick Diouf coming in for Ollie Scarles and Kyle Walker-Peters as changes two and three.

Nuno will make Todibo wait for his return to the starting XI given the form of Konstantinos Mavropanos and Disasi.

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Young star Ezra Mayers will drop out to provide Nuno with an extra body in attack as Taty Castellanos comes back in from the start as change four.

Disasi comes in for Max Kilman as change five for West Ham.

Freddie Potts will not be available as he is banned for three games after his dismissal against Burton.

Mateus Fernandes and Tomas Soucek will come back in for Mohamadou Kante and Soungoutou Magassa as changes six and seven.

The final changes will see Jarrod Bowen and Crysencio Summerville return to the starting XI in place of Adama Traore and Keiber Lamadrid.

That means Callum Wilson retains his place up front against his old club as he leads the line in front of Taty in the second striker role.

Predicted West Ham starting XI to face Bournemouth:

Hermansen, Wan-Bissaka, Mavropanos, Disasi, Diouf, Fernandes, Soucek, Summerville, Bowen, Taty, Wilson.

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