Premier League Predictor Challenge: Liverpool Against West Ham United, Anfield

Welcome to the second round of the Liverpool predictor challenge for Premiership matches.

Last week we opened the competition with guesses for Liverpool's line-up, substitutes and scoring details for their game at the Brittania Stadium against Stoke City.

While plenty picked up good scores for the starting 11, Liverpool's 2-0 reversal ensured nobody picked up even close to maximum points.

This weekend sees Liverpool return to Anfield for their home fixture against bottom-of-the-league West Ham United, for a Saturday evening fixture.

There will certainly be changes for Liverpool's starting crew; and from the point of view of Reds supporters at least—hopefully a big change in the result too.

Lucas Leiva's late dismissal against Stoke ensures that he will miss the West Ham game, while Steven Gerrard picked up a hamstring injury in England's midweek friendly against France and has been ruled out for three to four weeks.

Longer term absentees Joe Cole (hamstring) and Daniel Agger (calf) are also still on the sidelines, while there could be returns for 'keeper Brad Jones, defender Glen Johnson and forward Dirk Kuyt.

Fernando Torres and Martin Skrtel have also been passed fit after taking knocks last week against Stoke.

Anybody can join in at any point and the tables will be put up each week, with positions determined by average points gained per week. Predictions must be entered at least two hours before kick off. Points scoring are as follows:

Liverpool starting 11: one point for each correctly guessed player starting the match. Positions do not matter; i.e. if you pick Gerrard as a central midfielder and he starts behind Torres instead, you still get the point.

Bonus point: two point for correctly guessing all SEVEN substitutes!

Correct score: five points for getting the score exactly right, two points for getting the winning team right or correctly predicting a draw.

First scorer: two points for predicting Liverpool's first scorer of the game, regardless of whether Liverpool or the opposition score the first goal of the game.

Maximum 20 points possible per game.

Good luck to all and remember only first posts will count, no editing or multiple guesses.

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Table after 1 game:

11: Kaustav, Wanford
10: Karl, Jai
9: Chas, Hussam.