West Ham vs Chelsea Preview 11/02/2023

West Ham vs Chelsea – 11/02/2023

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On Saturday afternoon, cross-city rivals West Ham United and Chelsea conflict within the Premier League’s early kick-off on the London Stadium.

Ninth-placed Chelsea discover themselves two simply factors inside the highest half of the Premier League desk, with a 10-point hole between them and the Champions League locations.

In the meantime, seventeenth-placed West Ham sit a solitary level exterior the relegation zone and 11 factors shy of Chelsea. Can they shut the hole this weekend?

The Hammers have solely managed to win 5 of their 21 Premier League video games this season, recording 4 attracts and 12 losses alongside the best way.

Solely backside membership Southampton have suffered extra defeats than David Moyes’ males this time period, whereas solely 4 sides have scored fewer targets West Ham’s 18.

In current instances, the Hammers have misplaced six of their earlier 9 Premier League outings, with a harmful five-game dropping run coming between October and December.

Though Moyes’ aspect managed to carry Champions League-chasing Newcastle United to a 1-1 draw final outing, they continue to be in a deadly place.

As for Chelsea, they have been held to a draw by Fulham final outing – which means they head into Saturday’s conflict on the again of successive goalless attracts.

Not solely have the Blues managed to win simply certainly one of their final six Premier League matches, however they’ve additionally managed to win two of their earlier 12.

It’s price noting, nonetheless, that solely two sides have a greater defensive file than Chelsea, as Graham Potters’ males have conceded 21 targets this time period.

After all, Potter received’t discover it simple to gel his new-look squad of stars, however he has loads of top-class gamers at his disposal.

Head-to-head: Chelsea have received 4 of their final 5 Premier League video games towards West Ham, preserving a clear sheet on three events in that point.

For the reason that Hammers have managed to win simply 4 of their earlier 14 league conferences with the Blues, the hosts will battle to get something from Saturday’s encounter.

Crew information: West Ham are at the moment with out a variety of key gamers attributable to harm, with Kurt Zouma, Maxwel Cornet, Alphonse Areola and Thilo Kehrer on the sidelines.

Chelsea even have quite a few harm absentees, together with Edouard Mendy, Denis Zakaria, Wesley Fofana, N’Golo Kante, Christian Pulisic and Armando Broja.

Granted, Chelsea haven’t been at their better of late, however they shouldn’t battle to beat relegation-threatened West Ham.

Forebet predicts that Chelsea will rating over 1.5 targets and preserve a clear sheet on their method to dispatching the Hammers.