Start XI | Potters include Emerson, Rodríguez and Soler for the Fulham derby

Otherwise, Potter has kept faith with eight of the players who started and played well Friday night.

Łukasz Fabiański starts in goal, with the 39-year-old looking for a 93rd Premier League clean sheet in his 374th appearance in the English top flight – a record for a Polish player.

The back four will be filled out by right-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka and centre-backs Dinos Mavropanos and Maximilian Kilman, who are partnering for the 13th time in West Ham’s 21 Premier League games this season.

Rodríguez anchors the midfield alongside his former Club América teammate Edson Álvarez, with stand-in captain Tomáš Souček and Soler playing in more advanced roles ahead of them.

Souček scored the winner in this match in November 2020, before being sent off in the reverse fixture at Craven Cottage in February 2021, although the red card was later withdrawn.

Mohammed Kudus and Lucas Paquetá complete the starting XI and it remains to be seen which of the two will be deployed in a central attacking role.

Danny Ings, who scored a last-gasp equalizer in the 1-1 draw with Fulham in the reverse fixture in September, is among the nine substitutes named by Potter.

With Areola absent, birthday boy Wes Foderingham is the replacement goalkeeper. Scarles is joined on the bench by fellow defenders Vladimír Coufal, Aaron Cresswell and Kaelan Casey, and midfielders Lewis Orford, Andy Irving and Luis Guilherme.

West Ham United: Fabiański, Wan-Bissaka, Mavropanos, Kilman, Emerson, Rodríguez, Álvarez, Souček ©, Soler, Kudus, Paquetá
Subs: Foderingham (GK), Coufal, Cresswell, Scarles, Casey, Orford, Irving, Luis Guilherme, Ings

Fulham: Leno, Castagne, Andersen, Bassey, Robinson ©, Lukić, Pereira, Wilson, Iwobi, Smith Rowe, Jiménez
Subs: Benda (GK), Sessegnon, Cuenca, Diop, King, Cairney, Reed, Traoré, Muniz

Judge: Craig Pawson