PREMIER LEAGUE WEDNESDAY: We preview Wednesday’s Premier League game between MAN CITY v WEST HAM (8pm) with a recommended BETDAQ bet and extended match stats.
MANCHESTER CITY V WEST HAM
8pm It’s going to be a busy few weeks for Manchester City as they have to play this fixture midweek after the weather cancelled it on the 9th of February. Given they have Champions League football coming up next week, it’s less than ideal for City. However, it’s fair to say that the Premier League title is gone at this stage so they can focus on the Champions League. How dearly would Pep Guardiola love to win that with another side!
The match odds at the time of writing currently trade; Manchester City 1.15, West Ham 22.0 and the draw is 10.5. Once again we see a very short Manchester City price and short odds backers have been burnt plenty of times on City already this season. They just haven’t been at their best all season and they have been conceding too many goals.
There’s no doubt that David Moyes improved West Ham after he came in and they have picked up some points. However they have dropped back into the bottom three now after a run of games without a win. They have a terrible record against Manchester City too, losing their last seven Premier League games while conceding 23 goals. Tonight seems to be a question of how many, rather than will City win.
City haven’t scored in two games coming into this fixture. However those games came against Spurs and Manchester United. West Ham are obviously many levels below those teams but City just haven’t been themselves this season and although we expect them to win here, we can see the Hammers keeping the scoreline tight. Any Other Home Win (Manchester City to score four or more and win) looks very short at 2.3 in the Correct Score market and we’re happy to lay those odds.
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MATCH STATS
- Manchester City have won each of their last seven Premier League meetings with West Ham, scoring 23 goals and conceding just three in reply.
- West Ham have taken just four points from a possible 39 in Premier League games at the Etihad Stadium (W1 D1 L11), drawing 1-1 in January 2008 and winning 2-1 in September 2015.
- West Ham have lost 20 of their 23 Premier League away games against reigning champions (W1 D2), with their only victory coming at Manchester United in December 2001 (1-0).
- Manchester City have lost six Premier League games this season – as many as they had in their previous two campaigns combined. Manager Pep Guardiola has never lost seven matches in any of his previous 10 top-flight campaigns.
- West Ham haven’t won any of their last 16 league games in which they’ve conceded at least once (D4 L12) since winning 3-1 at Watford in August. The Hammers haven’t kept a league clean sheet against Man City since November 2012, conceding in all 14 since.
- Manchester City have conceded 15.6% of the shots they’ve faced in the Premier League this season – the highest ratio registered by any team in a single campaign since we have this data available (2003-04).
- West Ham have dropped a league-high 19 points from winning positions in the Premier League this season, with the Hammers failing to win eight of their 14 games in which they’ve scored first this season (W6 D5 L3).
- Man City boss Pep Guardiola has won all eight of his meetings with West Ham in all competitions – in his managerial career, against no side does he have a better 100% winning record (also 8/8 vs Malaga and Watford).
- Since the start of the 2016-17 season, Man City’s Raheem Sterling has been involved in 11 Premier League goals in seven appearances against West Ham (6 goals, 5 assists), netting a hat-trick at the London Stadium in the reverse fixture this term.
- Despite not registering a goal involvement until late October, Robert Snodgrass has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other West Ham player this season (9 – 5 goals, 4 assists). The Scotsman was involved in all three of their strikes against Brighton last time out (2 goals, 1 assist).
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