📊 Form Guide

West Ham United

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West Ham United won’t want a repeat of their last result here after the 1-0 Premier League loss in their previous game against Wolverhampton Wanderers.

In that game, West Ham United had 59% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 1 on target. At the other end, Wolverhampton Wanderers had 9 shots at goal with 2 on target. Jorgen Strand Larsen (21') scored for Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Their more recent scorelines reveal that much respect should be given to the West Ham United backline. West Ham United have given the opposition little, seeing the number of goals that have gone past their goalkeeper over the course of their last 6 games standing at 4. With no two games being the same, we will just have to wait and see whether that trend shall be maintained in this game.

Pre-game facts show that West Ham United:

• have not lost a league tie with Bournemouth in their last 7 matches.
• haven't beaten Bournemouth in their previous 3 league games.

Bournemouth

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Following on from being beaten in their last game against Ipswich Town in Premier League competition, Bournemouth and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, Bournemouth managed 64% possession and 23 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. The scorer for Bournemouth was Evanilson (67'). At the other end, Ipswich Town got 10 shots on goal with 2 on target. Nathan Broadhead (34') and Liam Delap (60') scored for Ipswich Town.

The stats tell the story, and Bournemouth have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 10 goals in all. At the back, Bournemouth have clearly had some problems.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Bournemouth:

• have not beaten West Ham United in games played away from home for the previous 3 matches in the league.
• are without a win away from home in their last 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their prior head to head meetings going back to 24/10/2022 tells us that West Ham United have won 3 of them & Bournemouth 0, with the number of drawn matches being 3.

An aggregate of 13 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 10 of them from The Hammers and 3 netted by The Cherries. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.17.

The last league match featuring these sides was Premier League match day 16 on 16/12/2024 when the final score was Bournemouth 1-1 West Ham United.

That time, Bournemouth managed 51% possession and 29 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target. The scorer was Enes Ünal (90').

At the other end, West Ham United had 16 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Lucas Paquetá (87') was the scorer.

The referee was Chris Kavanagh.

📋 Team News: West Ham United

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just one fitness concern for the West Ham United gaffer Graham Potter to contend with thanks to an almost full-strength group. Michail Antonio (Broken leg) misses out.

It’s our opinion that The Hammers will possibly use the 4-4-2 formation in the match and select Alphonse Areola, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Max Kilman, Jean-Clair Todibo, Edson Alvarez, Tomas Soucek, James Ward-Prowse, Oliver Scarles, Lucas Paqueta, Mohammed Kudus and Jarrod Bowen.

🗞️ Team News: Bournemouth

From our viewpoint, The Cherries will likely play in a 4-2-3-1 system, going with Kepa Arrizabalaga, Adam Smith, Illia Zabarnyi, Dean Huijsen, Milos Kerkez, Tyler Adams, Lewis Cook, Dango Ouattara, Alex Scott, Antoine Semenyo and Evanilson.

🔮 Prediction

In our view, West Ham United might well have a job on their hands to score goals against this Bournemouth team who we reckon should end up scoring and staying ahead.

That’s why our selection here is for a very competitive game with a 0-1 winning score for Bournemouth when the full-time whistle blows.

It should be a good one.

Andre Moura, 13:01 05/04/2025