West Ham's Czech Republic international defender Tomas Repka has been passed fit to line up against Manchester City at Upton Park.

Repka's knee injury, suffered in Sunday's 3-2 defeat at Tottenham, has proved to be not as bad as first feared, and manager Glenn Roeder said: 'There are no new injury problems.'

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The Hammers hope Scottish international midfielder Don Hutchison - who was expected to be out of action for the rest of the year following cruciate ligament surgery last season - will be back by the middle of next month.

Richard Dunne has been omitted from the Manchester City squad while Shaun Goater also misses out through injury.

Dunne, who narrowly avoided the sack because of well-publicised disciplinary problems, will stay behind and train on his own as part of a new programme designed to get the Ireland international fully fit.

Meanwhile, Goater, who had put himself in line for a starting berth after his goalscoring introduction against Blackburn last week, has suffered a groin injury in training which rules him out of the capital trip.

Danny Tiatto's apology for his red card shame against Rovers has gone down well with manager Kevin Keegan and the Australian has been included, as have Steve Howey and Darren Huckerby, who have both overcome minor niggles which kept them out of last Sunday's 2-2 draw.

Keegan insist Dunne could still have a good future with the club, providing he proves himself, and the City boss said on the club's official website: 'There is no doubt we could have sacked him but I'm pleased we haven't.

'He is an excellent player and we want him to play for this club.

'Sending Richard away from the club was the worst thing I could do. This is probably a time when it would have been very easy to dismiss him and get him out of here.