📊 Form Guide

West Ham United

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West Ham United will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 4-3 Premier League defeat in their last game at the hands of Newcastle United.

In that game, West Ham United had 40% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. For West Ham United, the goals were scored by Michail Antonio (21'), Mohammed Kudus (45') and Jarrod Bowen (48'). On the other side, Newcastle United had 24 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target. Alexander Isak (6', 77') and Harvey Barnes (83', 90') scored for Newcastle United.

It has been seldom in recent times that West Ham United haven’t conceded. The reality is that West Ham United have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 9 goals in the process.

Looking at their past form shows that West Ham United:

• haven't been defeated in their previous 3 league matches at home.
• haven’t won at home in the past 2 league matches.

Tottenham Hotspur

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Tottenham Hotspur will come into the encounter after a 2-1 Premier League win to beat Luton Town in their most recent fixture.

In that match, Tottenham Hotspur managed 70% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Tottenham Hotspur was Heung-min Son (86'). For their opponents, Luton Town had 7 shots at goal with 3 on target. Tahith Chong (3') and Issa Kaboré (51' Own goal) scored for Luton Town.

In as many as 6 of the previous 6 clashes involving Tottenham Hotspur, a minimum of three goals have gone in. The overall average goals scored per match in that spell is 3.33, with the average number of goals for Tottenham Hotspur working out to 2. We will just have to find out whether or not that trend will be sustained here.

Heading into this contest, Tottenham Hotspur have not won against West Ham United when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their past head to head clashes stretching back to 24/10/2021 shows that West Ham United have won 2 of them & Tottenham Hotspur 3, with the number of drawn games standing at 1.

An aggregate of 15 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 6 for The Hammers and 9 belonging to Spurs. That’s an average goals per game of 2.5.

The previous league game between these sides was Premier League match day 15 on 07/12/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 West Ham United.

On that day, Tottenham Hotspur had 75% possession and 23 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Their only player to score was Cristian Romero (11').

For their opponents, West Ham United got 11 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Jarrod Bowen (52') and James Ward-Prowse (74') scored.

The referee was Michael Salisbury.

📰 Team News: West Ham United

The West Ham United manager David Moyes will be grateful not to have any fitness worries whatsoever before this clash owing to a fully injury-free squad to choose from.

In our view, The Hammers should go for a 4-2-3-1 system this time and select Lukasz Fabianski, Vladimir Coufal, K. Mavropanos, Kurt Zouma, Emerson, Tomas Soucek, James Ward-Prowse, Jarrod Bowen, Lucas Paqueta, Mohammed Kudus and Michail Antonio.

🗞️ Team News: Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou has to choose a team with limited availability. Manor Solomon (Meniscus injury), Fraser Forster (Ankle injury) and Ryan Sessegnon (Hamstring injury) are those who can’t be considered.

We reckon that Spurs appear most likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 lineup, giving starts to Guglielmo Vicario, Pedro Porro, Cristian Romero, Micky van de Ven, Iyenoma Udogie, Yves Bissouma, Rodrigo Bentancur, Brennan Johnson, James Maddison, Timo Werner and Heung-Min Son.

✨ Prediction

We believe that Tottenham Hotspur have the ability to create a decent amount of chances and shots on target.

In contrast, West Ham United won’t find it easy to score themselves, although we do see them hitting back at some stage here.

We’re tipping a fairly comfortable 1-3 win for Tottenham Hotspur by the conclusion of the game.

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Lucas Pereira, 19:01 02/04/2024