West Ham United manager David Moyes has revealed that he hoped to see Saturday’s trip to Brighton and Hove Albion pushed back by a day due to the Hammers’ upcoming schedule. Moyes had hoped that the game against Brighton on Saturday would be moved back by a day in order for less of a tight turnaround between the trips to Manchester and Brighton, adding that the schedule makes planning for the next few matches more difficult.
David Moyes said: “It’s a very quick turnaround, if you look at our fixtures, we have to go to Old Trafford away from home and unfortunately, we didn’t get our game at Brighton moved to the Sunday, which would have helped us greatly. It makes it very difficult, an eight o’clock kick-off at Old Trafford on a Wednesday, and then we’re away to Brighton on Saturday. With it being a FA Cup midweek fixture, which, let’s be fair, it’s not something which we normally have. Normally, all of these cup ties are at the weekend. This one getting fitted in makes it a bit more awkward, then, we have to go away to Cyprus. We’ve got three away games in a week now, all with a decent amount of travel.”
