📏 Form Guide

West Ham United

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West Ham United will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 2-1 Premier League defeat in their last game at the hands of Liverpool.

In that match, West Ham United managed 45% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 on target. Liverpool got 15 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Luis Díaz (18'), Andy Robertson (86' Own goal) and Virgil van Dijk (89') scored for Liverpool.

It’s not been often in recent times that West Ham United have shown defensive steel. The facts show that West Ham United have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 7 goals during that time.

A look at their previous results shows us that West Ham United:

• haven't lost in the league to Southampton in their previous 3 games.
• have not won at home in their last 2 league matches.

Southampton

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Since a loss in their previous game against Aston Villa in Premier League competition, Southampton will be aiming to make amends here.

In that match, Southampton had 40% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. At the other end, Aston Villa got 25 attempts at goal with 10 of them on target. Ollie Watkins (73'), Donyell Malen (79') and John McGinn (94') scored for Aston Villa.

The stats tell the story, and Southampton have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 16 goals in all. At the back, Southampton could really do with shoring things up. Let’s see if that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

Going into this one, Southampton have not won away from home in their last 3 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head duels going back to 11/09/2021, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with West Ham United winning 2 of those games, Southampton 2 and 2 being draws in normal time.

13 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 6 for The Hammers and 7 for The Saints. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.17.

The previous league encounter featuring these sides was Premier League match day 18 on 26/12/2024 when it finished Southampton 0-1 West Ham United.

In that game, Southampton managed 55% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target.

West Ham United had 16 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Jarrod Bowen (59') was the scorer.

The referee was Lewis Smith.

📋 Team News: West Ham United

Aaron Cresswell (Muscle injury), Crysencio Summerville (Thigh problems) and Michail Antonio (Broken leg) won’t be playing for West Ham United gaffer Graham Potter.

It’s our opinion that The Hammers will possibly use a 4-2-3-1 system and select Alphonse Areola, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Jean-Clair Todibo, Max Kilman, Oliver Scarles, Tomas Soucek, James Ward-Prowse, Jarrod Bowen, Lucas Paqueta, Mohammed Kudus and Niclas Fuellkrug.

📰 Team News: Southampton

Southampton boss Simon Rusk has multiple availability issues to deal with. Ryan Fraser (Calf injury), Charlie Taylor (Hip injury), Albert Grønbaek (Tendon irritation) and Juan Larios (Fitness) can’t be considered.

We reckon that The Saints seem most likely to elect for a 4-4-2 formation, choosing Aaron Ramsdale, T. Harwood-Bellis, Jan Bednarek, Jack Stephens, Kyle Walker-Peters, Flynn Downes, Lesley Ugochukwu, Ryan Manning, Mateus Fernandes, Tyler Dibling and Cameron Archer.

🔮 Prediction

When taking all factors into account, West Ham United look set to be able to score a couple against Southampton, who will not find it easy to score.

We reckon that it will be a comfortable 2-0 victory for West Ham United at the end of the match.

Lucas Pereira, 13:01 19/04/2025