West Ham have the unenviable task of facing the MLS Allstars at Toronto FC’s BMO Field this Friday.
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Unenviable because the MLS side will be really up for claiming a Premier League scalp and they are in the middle of their season. Pre-season in England is notorious for throwing up strange results as Premiership teams get back to fitness and struggle with the physicality of so called lesser sides.
You only have to look at the statistics to find MLS supremacy in these games and thanks to our American friends there are plenty. In the four games the Allstars have hosted international opposition they have out scored their opposition by 10 goals to two. Last year they welcomed Scottish champions Celtic, who are roughly the same standard as the Hammers ,and despatched them 2-0. In 2006, the side defeated defending Premier League Champions, albeit a weaken, Chelsea one-nil and the standard of player available has increased since then.
West Ham still a team in transition. Manager Alan Curbishley is still building a team in his image and will be relieved if he can get all of his squad fit probably for the first time since he took over. The East Londoners have already recorded a win on US soil 3-1 over Columbus Crew but will find things a lot tougher in front of a partisan crowd baying for English blood.
