📏 Form Guide

West Ham United

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West Ham United will be wanting a better result here after a 2-1 FA Cup losing effort in their last game against Aston Villa.

In that game, West Ham United had 41% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer for West Ham United was Lucas Paquetá (9'). At the other end, Aston Villa got 16 shots at goal with 5 on target. Amadou Onana (71') and Morgan Rogers (76') scored for Aston Villa.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games where West Ham United have kept a clean sheet. In fact, West Ham United have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 13 goals during that time. Nevertheless, we’ll just have to find out whether that pattern might be sustained here in this match.

Leading up to this clash, West Ham United:

• have not won against Fulham in their previous 3 matches in the league.
• are without a home win in the past 2 league games.

Fulham

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Fulham go into this encounter following a 4-1 FA Cup win in the defeat of Watford in their last match.

In that game, Fulham had 72% possession and 27 shots at goal with 8 on target. For Fulham, the scorers were Rodrigo Muniz (26'), Raúl Jiménez (49'), Joachim Andersen (65') and Timothy Castagne (85'). At the other end, Watford got 5 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Rocco Vata (33') was the scorer for Watford.

Looking at their form, and Fulham have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 8 goals in all. At the back, Fulham just haven’t been too solid at all.

Going into this contest, Fulham are unbeaten in their previous 5 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings stretching back to 06/02/2021, both clubs have shared the honours with West Ham United winning 2 of those games, Fulham 2 and 2 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

An aggregate of 14 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 5 of them from The Hammers and 9 belonging to The Cottagers. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.33.

The last league fixture between the two was Premier League match day 4 on 14/09/2024 which ended up with the score at Fulham 1-1 West Ham United.

On that day, Fulham had 54% possession and 21 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer was Raúl Jiménez (24').

West Ham United got 11 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Danny Ings (95') scored.

The referee was Tim Robinson.

🗞️ Team News: West Ham United

Michail Antonio (Broken leg), Emerson (unknown injury), Jarrod Bowen (Foot injury), Crysencio Summerville (unknown injury), Jean-Clair Todibo (unknown injury) and Niclas Füllkrug (Hamstring injury) will not be able to play for West Ham United manager Graham Potter.

In all likelihood, The Hammers will possibly kick off with a 3-4-3 system for this game and select Lukasz Fabianski, Vladimir Coufal, K. Mavropanos, Max Kilman, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Edson Alvarez, Tomas Soucek, Oliver Scarles, Mohammed Kudus, Danny Ings and Lucas Paqueta.

📰 Team News: Fulham

Fulham boss Marco Silva has not got a full squad to pick from. Reiss Nelson (Hamstring injury) and Kenny Tete (Knee injury) will not be playing here.

It’s our belief that The Cottagers might utilise a 4-3-3 lineup with a starting lineup of Bernd Leno, Timothy Castagne, Joachim Andersen, Calvin Bassey, Antonee Robinson, Andreas Pereira, Sasa Lukic, Emile Smith Rowe, Harry Wilson, Raul Jimenez and Alex Iwobi.

⚡ Prediction

In our view, West Ham United will do well to score against this Fulham outfit who we think might score one, at least.

That’s why our selection here is for a good tussle with a 0-1 win for Fulham at the end of the match.

Let’s see.

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Peter Guest, 19:03 14/01/2025