This is the West Ham XI that can secure a European spot this season

Michail Antonio

He is West Ham’s top-scorer this season and has played in pretty much every position on the pitch at some stage, so Michail Antonio is clearly important to Bilic.

The Englishman, who received call-ups to two England squads last year but didn’t get on the pitch, has scored eight goals and laid on three assists for the Hammers this term, although hasn’t scored in any of his last eight starts.

Nonetheless, the 26-year-old will always do a job for the team, be it as a false nine like against West Brom, or as a right-back or right wing-back like times earlier in the season.

Yet, you sense that his best position is further forward, and out wide in a front three could be where Bilic gets the best out of the former Reading and Nottingham Forest man.