📊 Form Guide

West Ham United

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West Ham United will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 0-2 Premier League defeat last time out to Fulham.

In that match, West Ham United had 58% possession and 15 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. For their opponents, Fulham had 18 shots at goal with 10 on target. Andreas Pereira (9', 72') scored for Fulham.

It’s been seldom in recent times where West Ham United have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that West Ham United have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 10 goals on the way.

Bayer Leverkusen

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Bayer Leverkusen head into the match following a 5-0 Bundesliga 1 win vs Werder Bremen in their most recent game.

In that match, Bayer Leverkusen managed 56% possession and 20 shots at goal with 10 on target. For Bayer Leverkusen, the scorers were Victor Boniface (25'), Granit Xhaka (60') and Florian Wirtz (68', 83', 90'). Werder Bremen had 7 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

Indicating their penchant for action-packed encounters, goals have been celebrated 20 times in the prior six games in which Bayer Leverkusen have taken to the field, giving a mean average of 3.33 goals each fixture. Opposition teams have hit 5 of this grand total. Previous results aside, we will just have to wait and see whether that pattern might be replicated in this game or not.

📰 Team News: West Ham United

The West Ham United manager David Moyes doesn’t have any fitness concerns at all coming into this game owing to a fully injury-free squad available for selection. Lucas Paquetá will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

In our view, The Hammers will possibly kick off with a 4-3-3 system for the game, beginning the first half with Lukasz Fabianski, Vladimir Coufal, Kurt Zouma, Nayef Aguerd, Aaron Cresswell, James Ward-Prowse, Edson Alvarez, Tomas Soucek, Jarrod Bowen, Michail Antonio and Mohammed Kudus.

📋 Team News: Bayer Leverkusen

Due to a fully healthy group to pick from, the Bayer Leverkusen boss Xabi Alonso has zero fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this game.

It’s our belief that Leverkusen might utilise a 4-2-3-1 formation, going with Matej Kovar, Josip Stanisic, Odilon Kossounou, Jonathan Tah, Piero Hincapie, Granit Xhaka, Exequiel Palacios, Nathan Tella, Florian Wirtz, Alejandro Grimaldo and Patrik Schick.

⚡ Prediction

In our opinion, West Ham United will need to push hard to breach the defence of this Bayer Leverkusen lineup who we think will manage to score & go ahead.

We therefore see a very even contest with a 0-1 victory for Bayer Leverkusen at full-time.

Hoping for a good game.

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Peter Guest, 18:01 18/04/2024