Premier League – West Ham United – Tottenham Hotspur on Match-day 5
Next Wednesday at 7:45pm GMT, on matchday 5 of the Premier League, we will see The Hammers play Spurs at London Stadium.
Champion’s League hopefuls Spurs, travel to The Hammers on Wednesday, as third takes on sixteenth in the League.
This season’s Premier League campaign, has so far seen West Ham United achieve three points
If The Hammers’s season is to maintain on track, they must put their recent poor form to an end in this game. In their last two outings, they lost 0-1 at Aston Villa and 0-2 at Brighton & Hove Albion.
Also, suffering three losses in four meetings is a terrible run of form for any club, David Moyes’ The Hammers will know this and will be hopeful of turning it around. Their position is sixteenth in the League and they have three points, that is, 1W, 3L and 0D having won one game and lost three matches.
Playing at home, The Hammers have lost two games.
A win in this fixture would take West Ham United’s points to 6 in the League.
Going into Wednesday’s game, David Moyes without four of his players, due to illness or injury.
Tottenham Hotspur have 10 points to their name, going into this tie
Spurs must take a positive approach to this game, if they are to get anything out of, following their recent defeat to Nottingham Forest at City Ground.
Also, that’s a run of two wins for Spurs and they are looking worthy of the aspiration to qualify for Champion’s League football. They currently stand third in the League, with 10 points for a total of 3 wins, 0 losses and 1 draws having won three meetings and drawn one game.
Playing away from home, Spurs have won one game and drawn one game.
Winning this fixture will see Tottenham Hotspur on 13 points.
Good atacking and defensive team
Spurs’s defence has been rock solid so far, only conceding three goals in their previous games. Spurs will be pleased to have a good goal scoring record so far this season (9). This has been largely down to the key attacking players: Harry Kane (4), Pierre Hojbjerg (1), and Eric Dier (1).
Spurs’s ever growing list of players missing due to injury or illness to be a concern for Antonio Conte, ahead of this Wednesday’s fixture against their opponents.
West Ham United v Tottenham Hotspur – Head-to-Heads.
Regarding their historical duels the two clubs have previously faced each other 57 times with the tally being 28 victories and 10 draws for The Hammers. In addition, seven of the past 13 fixtures between The Hammers and Spurs have resulted in a The Hammers win. In their most recent meeting of this fixture was March 2022 and the score line ended up with a 3-1 win for West Ham United.
Performance Report
For The Hammers, Pablo Fornals is one of the top performing players after having scoredone goal in four League games this campaign, while Harry Kane contributed withfour goals in four League fixtures so far for Spurs.
four goals
