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West Ham v Forest team news: Paqueta + Sels start, Castellanos debut

6 January 2026 385 comments
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Gameweek 21 of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) gets underway at the London Stadium, where West Ham United take on Nottingham Forest.

The Hammers are winless in their last nine matches, while Forest have lost their last four, so this one feels like a real relegation six-pointer.

Kick-off is at 20:00 GMT.

TEAM NEWS

Nuno Espirito Santo makes four changes for West Ham, with new arrival Taty Castellanos in for Callum Wilson, who is reportedly on his way out of the club.

Jean-Clair Todibo, Tomas Soucek and the fit-again Lucas Paqueta also come in, replacing the benched Max Kilman, Soungoutou Magassa and Freddie Potts.

Another January arrival, Pablo Felipe, is named among the substitutes.

Sean Dyche has made two alterations from the 3-1 defeat at Aston Villa.

Matz Sels ousts the injured John Victor in goal.

Callum Hudson-Odoi, who missed out in Gameweek 20, comes in for Dilane Bakwa further forward.

LINE-UPS

West Ham United XI: Areola, Walker-Peters, Todibo, Mavropanos, Scarles, Soucek, Fernandes, Bowen, Paqueta, Summerville, Castellanos

Subs: Hermansen, Kilman, Felipe, Rodriguez, Magassa, Potts, Earthy, Kante, Mayers

Nottingham Forest XI: Sels, Aina, Milenkovic, Murillo, Williams, Anderson, Dominguez, Hutchinson, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi, Jesus

Subs: Gunn, Morato, Awoniyi, D Luiz, Kalimuendo, McAtee, Bakwa, Savona, Abbott

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  1. NZREDS
    • 12 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Unlucky - good team goal

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  2. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Forest were caught out—but got lucky

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  3. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Forest equaliser

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    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      WHU ducking it up?

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    2. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      Dominguez goal

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  4. F4L
    • 11 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    anderson might hau

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    1. F4L
      • 11 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      *haul

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      1. Hooky
        • 10 Years
        2 days, 18 hours ago

        Fantasywordlescout

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  5. g40steve
    • 7 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Dommy G

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  6. F4L
    • 11 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    dominguez g

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    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      Anderson a

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      1. PartyTime
        • 4 Years
        2 days, 18 hours ago

        Best midfielder in the game

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        1. AC/DC AFC
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          2 days, 18 hours ago

          Rice says hi

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  7. PartyTime
    • 4 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Anderson delivers again. Customary DC pts getting secured.

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  8. Baps Hunter
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    We feast! 😉

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  9. Eightball
    • 5 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    I'm sick of Bowen.

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  10. F4L
    • 11 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    given anderson is usually near the bonus without attacking returns, assists are huge for him

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  11. terranullius
    • 1 Year
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Time to sell Bowen?

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    1. Eightball
      • 5 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      I've got too many other moves to make and not enough transfers but he is on the chopping block. West Ham are useless.

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  12. Captain Mal
    • 1 Year
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Anderson 12 DC

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    1. F4L
      • 11 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      on a run of getting it 14 out of 18 times

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  13. PartyTime
    • 4 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Anderson in the mood

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  14. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Looks like it could be a 9 pointer for Anderson

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    1. brianutd-why always we? 20
      • 14 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      27k green arrow for his 2 defcons!!

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  15. Richm
    • 4 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Safe to sell Cunha after this week for rice?
    Keep minteh if fit for next games?

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    1. Eightball
      • 5 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      Minteh just can't be relied on. I binned him off this gameweek.

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      1. Richm
        • 4 Years
        2 days, 18 hours ago

        Who did you get?

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        1. Eightball
          • 5 Years
          2 days, 18 hours ago

          I went for Enzo.

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    2. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      United with Solskjær could be interesting moving forward

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      1. Richm
        • 4 Years
        2 days, 18 hours ago

        True , Bruno back to number 10 you’d imagine

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        1. Fifa las vegas
          • 13 Years
          2 days, 18 hours ago

          Could be gold, although I want the cheaper Amad.

          Not sure how it’ll all fit together with Mbeumo though

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          1. Richm
            • 4 Years
            2 days, 17 hours ago

            Yeah not much need for the 4 numbers 10s now

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  16. Ha.
    • 10 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    I’m sorry to whomever I said bench Anderson to

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    1. Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      Hopefully he didn't believe you. That A was pure luck also. And he's not here anyway.

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  17. Baps Hunter
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    I thought this was going to be dull. It may still be, but at least I am smiling and feeling happy 🙂

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  18. Pep Roulette
    • 8 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Bowen to DCL or someone else?

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    1. MikeS
      • 11 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      Bowen to anyone

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    2. brianutd-why always we? 20
      • 14 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      Watkins

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    3. Stimps
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      Mane (4.5)

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  19. Captain Mal
    • 1 Year
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    If West Ham lose today, Nuno will be the second manager to suffer two defeats when taking charge of both teams in meetings during a single Premier League campaign.
    Harry Redknapp was on the losing end for Southampton and Portsmouth in 2004-2005.

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  20. PartyTime
    • 4 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Haha Nuno booked

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    1. Stimps
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      Owners in the mud

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  21. Kiyoshi
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    I will never pick Bowen again

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    1. bso
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      The only thing wrong with Bowennis WH.

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  22. NABIL - FPL otai
    • 13 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Thiago to Bowen for a hit in GW20. What was I thinking

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    1. Eightball
      • 5 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      I got him in 18 and changed my structure to 3 forwards to try and be different. What a mistake.

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      1. Fifa las vegas
        • 13 Years
        2 days, 18 hours ago

        Ya I need to get back to Haaland and two cheaper rotating forwards or even just Haaland and 4-5-1!

        Thiago isn’t that cheap when trying to get him back in now though 😡

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      2. NABIL - FPL otai
        • 13 Years
        2 days, 18 hours ago

        Same here. Fixtures over form play this season turns out to be very ugly.

        Heck, even form play (re Thiago) also doesn't guarantee anything lol

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    2. brianutd-why always we? 20
      • 14 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      Chasing points??

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      1. Eightball
        • 5 Years
        2 days, 18 hours ago

        Not sure there is much points chasing in the case of Bowen haha. Apart from Haaland forwards are just horrible this season.

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      2. NABIL - FPL otai
        • 13 Years
        2 days, 18 hours ago

        Not really. Just making use of money available. Turn out to be so wrong

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        1. brianutd-why always we? 20
          • 14 Years
          2 days, 18 hours ago

          He got a 7 pointer and was tempting thereafter. It’s never easy trying to go against the masses

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  23. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Elliot Anderson on current bonus would be on 89 points
    That would be the the 4th highest scoring forward in the game and only 1 behind 3rd highest scoring Bowen
    Defcons feel like they've killed the appeal of forwards!

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    1. NABIL - FPL otai
      • 13 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      Indeed.

      And I'm still wondering why do I have a Robot Ekitike Bowen lineup.

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    2. Fifa las vegas
      • 13 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      Ya and I still haven’t mentally adjusted to it chasing points that are barely existent in forwards like Ekitike

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    3. F4L
      • 11 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      do you think fpl towers do something for next season to re-balance the game or just accept it

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      1. circusmonkey
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        2 days, 18 hours ago

        Well not everyone gets defcon, so not neccessarily. I'm sure they tested it beforehand and it just happens that Anderson is very good at getting defcon.

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    4. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      As football is about scoring goals...

      One easy fix is an extra point per goal?

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    5. Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      When I sell Ekitike, I will change formation to 4-5-1 / 5-4-1

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    6. Omnifolds
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      2 days, 17 hours ago

      Given he was the only skin I had in this game, I was actually following his bps quite closely and I have to say I'm pretty lost about how defcons count towards players' totals. If an assist is 9 bps and playing 60 is another 6, how on earth does a player on 21 defcons wind up with 18 total bps? Surely he wasn't tackled or giving away fouls at a rate that would negate those gains, or do they simply stop counting after a point? At the same time, I noticed Soucek went from 19 bps to 21 bps within minutes of getting his 9th defcon, so they obviously do contribute to some extent. Good god, this is my definitely lamest post to date...

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  24. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Proper relegation dog fight in the January rain

    You'd think a winner would be vital, either way

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    1. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      If Leeds is the benchmark a draw means West Ham 7 points behind them.

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    2. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      I think Wolves and West Ham will go anyway regardless of tonight’s result.

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  25. JBG
    • 7 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Genuinely whoever picked this fixtures and TV times are pri*ks. West Ham - NFO as an alone fixture on a Tuesday

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    1. Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      Mainly Anderson and Bowen owners here. And some others.

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  26. Pep Roulette
    • 8 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Farewell goal needed from Bowen

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    1. Eightball
      • 5 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      A nice pen with paqueta not on the pitch would be lovely

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  27. Kane Train
    • 10 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Which option would you rather do ?

    A) Senesi > Gabriel
    B) Wilson > Rice

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    1. Fifa las vegas
      • 13 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      A

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    2. NABIL - FPL otai
      • 13 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      Both asap
      A first if you must

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    3. brianutd-why always we? 20
      • 14 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      A

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  28. tbos83
    • 5 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Just randomly recalling how mad the 'assistant manager' chip was last season

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    1. brianutd-why always we? 20
      • 14 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      God knows what’s next

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  29. The Mandalorian
    • 13 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Last time Ole was at the wheel Man United scored lots of goals.

    If United bounce we could see 2 or 3 assets .
    Last time the front 3 outscored Bruno for the first 3 months.

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    1. JBG
      • 7 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      Martial and Bruno or Pogba, can't remember who. Won me my ML

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    2. Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      Previously rumours about him were jokes, but now making him interim coach for rest ofcthe season might make sense.

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      1. Eightball
        • 5 Years
        2 days, 18 hours ago

        I think it will be Carrick.

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      2. RamaJama
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        2 days, 17 hours ago

        Is The Athletic a reliable source?

        https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/uk/

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    3. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      2 days, 17 hours ago

      United scored 300 goals in all competitions in the 163 matches Solskjær was manager. Took the club to 2. and 3. in PL and to the Eiriks League final. Have anyone made that with United after Ferguson?

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  30. Mr. O'Connell
    • 13 Years
    2 days, 18 hours ago

    Flashscore has Sels down for 3 saves. FPL for 1.

    Honestly picking this keeper is like playing the game on extreme difficulty.

    #justiceforsels

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    1. Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      2 days, 18 hours ago

      Wait a moment, he just made 2(?)

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