Thursday Football Tips: Scamacca to be West Ham's Euro star again

West Ham v FCSB
Thursday 8 September, 20:00 kick-off
Live on BT Sport 2

David Moyes hopes West Ham can claim more European joy to lift their domestic gloom when they host FCSB in the Europa Conference League.

If the initials have you stumped about who their opponents are, they're essentially the modern-day Romanian giants Steaua Bucharest - although a bitter court battle has been raging between them and another side CSA Steaua Bucuresti, who also claim that title.

Uefa, though, recognises FCSB as the side that won the European Cup and Super Cup in 1986 and also made the European Cup final again in 1989.

Anyway, history lesson over, they're no longer a European powerhouse and are struggling near the bottom of the Romanian top flight after just one win in seven this season - with that coming against 10 men.

The Hammers are struggling too, although only a horrible VAR call stopped them from getting a deserved point at Stamford Bridge last time out.

To be fair, West Ham probably should've beaten Spurs the game before too when they failed to take some seriously good second-half chances, so Moyes can have some hope that results will turn for them soon.

Europe has been a nice distraction so far for West Ham, with Viborg dispatched 6-1 over two legs as big summer signing Gianluca Scamacca showed his class.

Scamacca scored first in both games and is joint-favourite with Michail Antonio to do it again, and providing he's over his illness he should start again and we'll happily back him to score again - but in the anytime scorer market for safety.

Moyes should make changes but we could still see the likes of Declan Rice and Jarrod Bowen starting, but just in case they're rested we're looking at Said Benrahma and Maxwel Cornet who should both start the game.

Benrahma had a goal and assist from the 90-odd minutes he played across the two Viborg games, while Cornet had two assists from two full games played.

Despite being odds-on, we'll take the pair to have a say in a goal by backing them to score or assist and complete our Bet Builder treble for the game.