Stevethehammer 11:34 Sun Apr 4
Rice injured 4-6 weeks out - medial ligament damage
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Rumours doing the rounds on twitter
Talksport
Hammer blow Declan Rice suffers knee injury and ruled out of West Ham’s clash with Wolves in blow to club’s Premier League top four hopes
West Ham midfielder Declan Rice has suffered a knee injury, talkSPORT understands.
The 22-year-old returned from England duty last week with a problem and will not play in Monday night’s Premier League clash at Molineux.
Rice is undergoing further tests and it is expected he will miss more than one match.
His absence – for any length of time – will come as a big blow to boss David Moyes.
Rice has become arguably West Ham’s most important player and has been an ever-present since the start of the 2019/20 season.
He has been key to West Ham’s incredible campaign so far which has them chasing an unlikely top four spot and Champions League qualification.
Rice has also become an integral part of the England team and Gareth Southgate will hope he returns to action soon, with the youngster nailed-on for a place in the European Championship squad.
Rice played the full 90 minutes for England in the wins over Albania and Poland last week in their World Cup qualifying games.
He returned to West Ham following the 2-1 win over Poland at Wembley on Wednesday, where it emerged he had a knee injury and has been in a leg brace since.
West Ham hope the issue is not serious, but it is feared he will not be fit for the visit of Leicester on Sunday and there are some concerns the lay-off will be longer than a few weeks.
Mark Noble, the club captain, is expected to take Rice’s place in the West Ham starting line-up against Wolves.
A win for the Hammers tonight will move them above Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham and into the top four.
Reacting to the news on talkSPORT, Tony Cascarino said: “When you look at the role Fabinho does at Liverpool and that N’Golo Kante does for Chelsea, that is what Rice does for West Ham.
“He sits, he can pick things, he can see things, players trust him. He does the simplistic things that can affect a team really well, and he keeps the ball.
“It is a huge blow. He is West Ham’s best player.
“David Moyes has done an exceptional job of finding solutions and that is what he has to do with Declan Rice out now.”
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Sydney_Iron
11:52 Sun Apr 4
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Twitter! good chance its utter bollocks then.....
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The Hammers
11:56 Sun Apr 4
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BBC Sport
@BBCSportLondon
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BREAKING NEWS: West Ham’s Declan Rice to be out of action for up to 8 weeks due to a back injury. This was caused from carrying England all by himself on international duty.
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Lily Hammer
12:08 Mon Apr 5
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Ha ha!
Nice one, Hammers.
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happygilmore
12:09 Mon Apr 5
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apparently, it's only a sore finger from repetitive pointing. HE will be fine.
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Mad Dog
2:58 Mon Apr 5
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Unlocked as it appears to be true.
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Mike Oxsaw
3:15 Mon Apr 5
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Trial to see if we can do without him next season?
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Lato
3:17 Mon Apr 5
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Thats his and our season over then!
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LeroysBoots
3:17 Mon Apr 5
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FFS
Noble will play tonight, fucking disaster
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Lee Trundle
3:23 Mon Apr 5
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Fucking England call ups.
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goose
3:24 Mon Apr 5
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Season over because we were too skint to bring in adequate cover.
I look forward to Noble standing two yards off the centre backs and demanding the ball for the rest of the season.
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happygilmore
3:30 Mon Apr 5
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I hate the international break even more now. Thank you fucking Gareth Toothgate
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Mike Oxsaw
3:30 Mon Apr 5
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Well, at least the board have met their business plan for this season, so what else did you expect?
Can't risk our most marketable asset now that's done.
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Darby_
3:34 Mon Apr 5
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I'm assuming that Noble will play a couple of games before Moyes grudgingly admits that he's not good enough.
The question then is, how do we set up without two defensive midfielders?
Or will someone like Pablo drop back?
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Lee Trundle
3:34 Mon Apr 5
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That's 2 out of the 3 positions where it was obvious to all we've needed to strengthen that have come back and bitten us on the arse this season.
Centre Mid & Striker.
Thank god Cresswell has found his form again and stay fit, otherwise that would have been all 3.
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Lee Trundle
3:35 Mon Apr 5
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Darby_ 3:34 Mon Apr 5
Conner Coventry? It normally scenarios like that would give him his opportunity.
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Pedro
3:41 Mon Apr 5
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Reminds me of when we lost Payet for a month and drew every game. Cost us champions league.
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zico
3:42 Mon Apr 5
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happygilmore 3:30 Mon Apr 5
It's the pointless International games. Fine Poland in a qualifier but the likes of Albania, San Marino etc should have their own qualifying section to get in to the main qualifiers. Less teams that will never get to a World Cup in the main qualifiers mean less games and more competitive qualifying groups.
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SUM A DING WONG
3:45 Mon Apr 5
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'They fly so high, nearly reach the sky, then like my dreams, they fade and die'
Say no more.
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charleyfarley
3:46 Mon Apr 5
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Apparently he took a knock during the England game and made it worse during 5 a side game when returning to training
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LeroysBoots
3:49 Mon Apr 5
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I'd play Formals, or even try Diop as the anchor with Soucek getting forward
Moyes won't, he only sees Noble as the option
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