West Ham - Aston Villa Game comments

England - Premier League: West Ham vs Aston Villa

West Ham held on at Stamford Bridge last weekend and they will enter this match full of confidence. Hammers will be looking to improve on their awful home record by beating Aston Villa. Villans are back in fourth place and they seem very determined to stay there, come rest of the season. They, too, will be looking to take all three points.

West Ham could be sold

West Ham’s Icelandic owners have received several offers to sell the club but everything should be clear in the next month. Regardless, the team continues to function as nothing has happened and their performances are very good lately. Most of the good results lately came on the travels but the team will have to improve the home form if they want to start climbing the Premiership table. Hammers managed to avoid defeat in the away games against Liverpool and Chelsea and that is a very good result. They have shown a lot of improvement lately but it seems that they are playing under a lot of pressure in home games as they desperately want to improve the disappointing home record. West Ham lost four of the last five home games and they just need one good result at Upton Park so that they could start playing with more freedom. The good result from the Chelsea game will have raised the players’ spirits and they will be eager to beat Aston Villa. Gianfranco Zola has no fresh injury worries and he is expected to name an unchanged line-up, thus Cole and Bellamy will continue to lead the attack. Bellamy scored the only goal against Chelsea and he will again be the main threat for the opposing defenders. The odds on Bellamy to score are 3.75 at unibet

Villa are in fourth place

After a lot of years it seems that one team will be close to breaking the Big Four of English football. Aston Villa looked very good last season and they were probably the only team that could hurt the big teams but Martin O’Neill decided to reinforce his squad even more and try to challenge the Champions League place. The team is playing really well this season and they are in fourth place at the moment, and we wouldn’t be surprised if they stay there, come end of the season. Villa’s league success is even bigger considering that they are also playing in Europe this season but that doesn’t seem to be a problem as the boss now has very good squad. Knowing that his team will play a lot of games in short period of time in a hectic festive schedule, O’Neill fielded second string team for the UEFA Cup match against Hamburg, as Villa had already ensured progress to the next stage. The team did lose the match but now the key players will be fresh and ready for this match. Villans are in great scoring form lately, having scored seven goals in the last two league games and we expect the trend to continue. Apart from long-term absentees, Carew and Bouma, the Scottish manager has no fresh injury worries.

Betting verdict

West Ham will be looking to improve their awful home record and they will attack from everywhere. Aston Villa has been in great scoring form and they will have plenty of chances in this match. Therefore, we recommend betting on over 2.5 goals.

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Our tip: Bet 7 on Over 2.5 goals
Odds 1.9 at
Bookmaker: Unibet

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