West Ham meet relegation-battling Leicester City in a Premier League clash at the London Stadium.
Victory will lift West Ham up to 15th in the table, whilst Leicester can climb to 18th with a win and to within two points of safety.
Team News
West Ham have no fresh injury concerns to report following their narrow win at Arsenal.
Crysencio Summerville, Niclas Fullkrug, Vladimir Coufal (all hamstring), Lucas Paqueta (ankle) and Michail Antonio (leg) remain ruled out.
Leicester could be without Caleb Okoli due to a knock.
James Justin (foot) is a doubt but Abdul Fatawu (ACL) and Ricardo Pereira (muscle) remain absent.
When is Kick-Off?
West Ham host Leicester at the London Stadium on Thursday 27 February at 8pm GMT, live on TNT Sports 1 in the UK.
Stat Attack
- West Ham avoided defeat in four of their last seven meetings against West Ham (W3, D1, L3).
- Leicester are unbeaten in six of their last eight visits to West Ham (W4, D2, L2).
- West Ham have failed to keep a clean sheet in their last six meetings against Leicester.
- Jarrod Bowen has converted 24 of his 55 shots onto target this season for West Ham.
- Leicester have scored eight goals across their five away trips to London-based opposition this season (W1, D1, L3).
Prediction
Having battled to a clinically gutsy win at Arsenal with a superb defensive display and strong well-executed attacking play, West Ham now need to kick on and try to bring more attacking intensity to a game where they are favourites.
Leicester on the other hand need a huge improvement because they were simply defensively lacklustre in their loss to Brentford, whilst their attack lacked much quality nor end product of memorable note which can’t happen too much any more if want to stay up.
I however just can’t see the Foxes finding enough quality to win this game but there should be goals at both ends given West Ham’s own defensive issues – particularly in this fixture.
Prediction: West Ham 2-1 Leicester
Result: West Ham 2-0 Leicester
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