Get the ball in the box
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According to rumours, the Hammers are set to play 4-4-2 with Carroll and Hernandez reprising the big man/small man combo that dominated early 90’s football. Because of that, when the Hammers get a good chance to put it into the box it must go in.
This doesn’t mean punting the ball in for the sake of it, or crossing from crazy positions, but it does mean that when quality options present themselves the ball most go in. Carroll and Hernandez are both most effective from within the box. In fact Hernandez has never scored a Premier League goal from outside the box.
To use these two players in the best way the ball shouldn’t be held on the edge of the box. Through balls and crosses have to be put in, and regularly. There isn’t a defence in the world who would want to defend waves of crosses against Carroll and Hernandez. Will Carroll’s physical presence and Chicarito’s movement will give any defence an issue.