West Ham vs Manchester City Predictions, Betting Tips and Match Previews

West Ham suffered their second consecutive defeat on Monday when they hosted Manchester United at the London Stadium. In all honesty they held their own fairly well, despite being reduced to ten men within 15 minutes, with it taking over an hour for Manchester United to make the breakthrough. A follow up goal from Zlatan Ibrahimovic killed the game off though, but considering their man deficit West Ham won’t be too worried about that result.

They have now won three, drawn one, and lost two of their last six games in the Premier League. Now their attention turns towards the FA Cup as Slaven Bilic looks to salvage a season that is sinking due to their awful start to the campaign. West Ham sit down in 13th position in the Premier League and will find it difficult now to creep into the Europa League, so a lot of focus will be on the FA Cup.

Manchester City have their focus strewn all over the place. They are way behind in the Premier League title race but still close enough to warrant focus, and the Champions League knockout stages are coming up too. This might cause Pep Guardiola to rotate later on in the FA Cup, but for now he’s expected to play a full strength side.

Guardiola wasn’t a happy man on Monday, despite getting three points on the board at home to Burnley. In fairness he did have to witness Fernandinho get sent off yet again this season for a terrible two footed lunge and Manchester City were by no means comprehensive in their victory over a Burnley side who are awful on the road.

This win did make it four wins from their last five games in the Premier League though, although away from home they have only won four of their last 11 matches in all competitions. West Ham have only lost two of their last eight at home as well, and Manchester City will definitely not want to be forced into a replay here.

West Ham have failed to score in their last two matches, but they should manage to find the net on Friday. Manchester City have kept just two clean sheets in their last 15 away days in all competitions, whilst West Ham have scored in nine of their last 11 at home. The hosts have only kept clean sheets against the likes of Accrington Stanley, Sunderland, Burnley, and Hull during this time though, so I can’t seen them keeping a clean sheet against a Manchester City side who have scored in six of their last seven away games though.

This makes odds of 4/6 for Both Teams to Score look a good value backing, and I’m going for that along with a 1-1 correct score predictions at 13/2, due to Manchester City’s recent poor showing on the road.

For our goalscorer predictions I’m going for Sergio Aguero. The Argentine forward netted the winner off the bench on Monday to make it 11 Premier League goals in 14 appearances this season. He has another six in the Champions League as well, taking his tally to 17 goals in 19 appearances this season. 11 of these have come away from home, so he looks by far the best choice for our anytime goalscorers.