West Ham vs Burnley Match preview

England - Premier League: West Ham vs Burnley

West Ham are showing signs of improvement lately and they look to be on the right track. Although they need to record few good results in a row in order to escape the dangerous zone. The Hammers will have a great chance to return to winning ways against Burnley, the team with the worst away record in the Premiership.

West Ham are improving

West Ham were expected to challenge for the European places this term but they found themselves at the wrong end of the table and now have to work hard to improve their league position. The Hammers have recorded a couple of good results lately and the win over Burnley will definitely kick-start their season. Gianfranco Zola’s side are scoring goals with ease at the moment, having bagged 8 goals in last 4 games and they should be able to continue the run against the team that conceded 15 goals in last 4 away games. Therefore, we see a good value in backing West Ham to score over 1.5 goals at odds of 1.91 offered by Boylesports.

Herita Ilunga looks set to return to the starting line-up after recovering from injury, while Zola should also have Alessandro Diamanti, Kieron Dyer and James Tomkins back in contention. We, therefore, expect to see a couple of changes to the team that earned a 3:3 draw with Hull but regardless of the team the boss sends out to the pitch, the Hammers are set to adopt attacking approach since this is a must-win game for them. They are definitely the better team here and we expect them to take the lead early on. Hence, you should seriously consider backing West Ham to lead at half-time at odds of 2.50 offered by Expekt.

Burnley missed the chance to beat Aston Villa

The Clarets have gone a long way under Owen Coyle and even the best teams in the league struggle to take the points from their Turf Moor. Aston Villa needed a late goal from Emile Heskey to salvage one point last weekend but Burnley players will not be too downhearted by the result as the team are sitting comfortably in mid table. However, the situation is completely the opposite when the Clarets leave their home since they have brought just one point from six away games. Nevertheless, they managed to score five goals in last two away games and seeing West Ham’s defence are largely struggling at the moment, we see a good value in backing Burnely to score at odds of 1.44 offered by Boylesports.

Owen Coyle has been one of the luckiest managers in the Premiership as he constantly have almost full squad to choose from and that is one of the reasons for the very good results. Rodriguez, Paterson and McCann remain the only absentees and we therefore expect to see the same team that started the Aston Villa game. Steven Fletcher will again be leading the attack and former Hibernian striker has been in very good form lately. If anyone can score in Owen Coyle’s team at Upton Park it will be him, and you might want to try backing Fletcher to score at 3.60 offered by Paddy Power.

Betting verdict

West Ham are raising their form and we believe this will be the game when they turn it around. The Hammers are much better team here and they should be able to beat the team that only picked up one point from the travels so far.  

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Our tip: Bet 8 on Home win
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