West Ham face Burnley in a huge Premier League showdown in the fight for survival.
Victory by two goals or more could lift West Ham out of the relegation zone at Burnley’s expense, whilst Scott Parker’s Clarets can climb as high as 14th with a win.
Team News
West Ham have no fresh injury concerns to report after their 3-1 comeback win against Newcastle.
George Earthy, Konstantinos Mavropanos (both hamstring), Niclas Fullkrug (calf) and Oliver Scarles (shoulder) remain ruled out.
Burnley could be without Hjalmar Ekdal after he suffered an eye injury in training.
Jordan Beyer (hamstring), Conor Roberts (knee) and Zeki Amdouni (ACL) remain absent.
When is Kick-Off?
West Ham host Burnley at London Stadium on Saturday 8 November at 3pm GMT, untelevised live in the UK.
Stat Attack
- West Ham are unbeaten in their last six meetings against Burnley (W3, D3).
- Burnley have won one of their last five visits to West Ham (W1, D2, L2).
- Tomas Soucek has scored in two of West Ham’s last three meetings against Burnley.
- West Ham are looking to claim their first pair of consecutive league victories since February 2025, having currently gone on a 21-match run without back-to-back wins since beating Arsenal and Leicester.
- Burnley have conceded twice in three of their last four matches, except for a 2-0 home win against Leeds in October 2025.
Prediction
After their early conceded goal against Newcastle, West Ham could of easily imploded yet they somehow dug deep to absorb the Magpies’ early pressure before extracting control with a great attacking press and clinical end product which was a great boost confidence wise.
Burnley meanwhile were never really going to get anything against Arsenal but were twice undone from aerial play despite their best efforts, although they will know that this is winnable if bring the same attack which defeated Wolves two weeks ago but are tighter defensively.
London Stadium though hasn’t exactly been a strong place for Burnley on their travels and with West Ham having found some belief, this is going to be tough but if they can match the Hammers then a draw is surely achievable.
Prediction: West Ham 1-1 Burnley
Result: West Ham 3-2 Burnley
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