At 15:00 on Saturday, Bournemoth receives West Ham United’s visit to the “Vitality Stadium,” in the 23rd Premier League, where “hammers” could climb up close to the European Cups! Bournemouth is without a 4-stage victory and pays tribute to defensive errors too often.
It has to be said that Bournemouth has a very good balance when playing on his own field, where he won 5 games and drew 3 times, being defeated only three times by the Premier League grandees. At first sight, West Ham is not a travel specialist, but has only one failure in the last 6 games played on foreign ground, even if the opponents have always been on the bottom of the leaderboard. However, we recall an inexperienced performance at Burnley (0-2), where “hammers” showed exhausted in front of a rival who did not impress at all this season. With the help of the fans, Bournemouth should dominate the hostilities on Saturday afternoon.
Eddie Howe has not yet managed to solve the defensive problems of “cowboys” who have received two or more goals in 10 of the last 20 rounds. In this season, only two bands in England have a higher average of goals in the match than Bournemouth (1.91), and West Ham can take advantage of the laxity of the hosts through the high-quality players at their disposal: Arnautovic, Felipe Anderson Michail Antonio are just a few of them. In 73% of matches played this season on the “Vitality Stadium” we saw at least three successes, a bet that could be inspired once again.
West Ham has been in good form since December and has only one defeat in the last 9 stages (6 wins), and in 6 of the last 7 duels with Bournemouth I have seen goals on both sides. Even if these figures indicate a spectacular match, we notice that Pellegrini’s students prefer a lower travel pace, and in four of the last six games played by WHU on the pitch, two goals scored. West Ham is 9th (30-32 Golaveraj), while Bournemouth is in 12th position (goal 31-42).
In the last four stages, Bournemouth received 14 goals from Tottenham, Manchester United, Watford and Everton, and last round Eddie Howe’s team was defeated on “Goodison Park” (0-2), although he resisted well in the first 60 minutes without a goal. West Ham comes after a huge victory in the derby with Arsenal (1-0) and has a good moral after the games with Birmignham (2-0), Brighton (2-2), Southampton (2-1), Fulham (2) -0) and Crystal Palace (3-2).
There are bothers in the hosts (Cook, Francis and Solanke are injured), but Manuel Pellegrini has the biggest headaches among England managers: he has to do another round without Balbuena, Fredericks, Lanzini, Reid, Sanchez, Wilshere , Yarmolenko and Chicharito, although the Mexican could be fit despite a back injury.
BOURNEMOUTH – WEST HAM PROBABILY TEAMS:
Bournemouth: Begovic – Clyne, Cook, Ake, A. Smith – Stanislas, Gosling, Lerma – Brooks, J. King, Fraser
West Ham United: Fabianski – Zabaleta, Diop, Ogbonna, Cresswell – Noble, Rice – Antonio, Nasri, F. Anderson – Arnautovic
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / YES @ 1.50
