West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola is awaiting news on Herita Ilunga and Carlton Cole ahead of Sunday's game with Everton.

Both players were forced off with suspected hamstring injuries during Wednesday's 2-1 victory over Aston Villa and Jonathan Spector and Zavon Hines are standing by to step into the starting XI.

Fabio Daprela and Frank Nouble will also be added to the squad. Radoslav Kovac is available again after serving a one-match ban but Luis Boa Morte (knee), Dean Ashton (ankle) and Calum Davenport (leg) remain long-term absentees with no date set for their return.

Everton winger Diniyar Bilyaletdinov is suspended.

Having been sent off last weekend against Aston Villa, he was able to play in the Europa League home defeat by Benfica, with the domestic ban starting at West Ham.

Former West Ham captain Lucas Neill and Dutchman John Heitinga, both ineligible for the Benfica game, come back into the squad but Louis Saha (calf) could miss out.

Tony Hibbert returned for the European match after flu but Everton will still be without long-term injured players Phil Neville, Phil Jagielka, Mikel Arteta, Steven Pienaar, Victor Anichebe, James Vaughan and Leon Osman.

Teams:

West Ham (from): Green, Jimenez, Stanislas, Nouble, Daprela, Kovac, Spector, Hines, Upson, Collison, Franco, Cole, Ilunga, Parker, Diamanti, Kurucz, Tomkins, Behrami, Faubert, Da Costa.

Everton (from): Howard, Hibbert, Yobo, Distin, Baines, Neill, Heitinga, Cahill, Fellaini, Rodwell, Nash, Gosling, Jo, Yakubu, Agard, Baxter, Saha, Coleman, Duffy, Wallace.