Two of the league’s type groups meet at London Stadium on Saturday (17:30 GMT), albeit with West Ham United and Bournemouth experiencing reasonably completely different campaigns.
The Hammers, in seventeenth place, have received three of their final 5 within the league, drawing with final trip. The ten factors they’ve earned in that timeframe is as many as they acquired of their earlier 15 matches.
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Hammers can flee the underside three
Considerably, this spherical of fixtures presents them with the possibility to maneuver out of the drop zone for the primary time since early December, ought to they win and Nottingham Forest lose to Liverpool (relying on aim distinction).
Crysencio Summerville continued his glowing type with an extra-time winner in a tense FA Cup fourth spherical win over Burton Albion, taking him to 6 targets in his final seven video games.
Nuno Espirito Santo made 10 adjustments for that conflict in opposition to League One opposition however needed to name upon Summerville from the bench to place the tie to mattress, maybe indicative of his aspect’s reliance on a small pool of goalscorers.
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Even within the Premier League the Irons have been utilizing the total extent of their squad in a bid to discover a successful system. Following a busy winter switch window, they’ve used extra completely different gamers than some other aspect within the league this season, with 32, but solely have had fewer completely different goalscorers than West Ham’s 9.
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Cherries blossoming
Bournemouth are unbeaten of their final six league video games, with 4 wins and two attracts transferring them from fifteenth to ninth for the reason that flip of the 12 months.
The Cherries’ first-ever Premier League win got here in opposition to West Ham at Upton Park in August 2015. Lately although, they’re winless of their final 10 conferences with the Hammers in all competitions – the final 5 within the league have all been attracts.
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Andoni Iraola’s aspect got here from behind to beat Everton 2-1 final week, with Brazilian ahead Rayan on the scoresheet for the second successive recreation. Add to that an help on his debut and the 19-year-old is aiming to turn out to be the primary teenager within the historical past of the competitors to file aim involvements in every of his first 4 video games.
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That very good second half turnaround on the Hill Dickinson Stadium was typical of the Cherries’ resilient angle this season. Solely and have rescued extra factors from dropping positions within the top-flight this season than Bournemouth’s 14.
In Rayan and Junior Kroupi – the highest scorer left on the membership after Antoine Semenyo’s transfer to Manchester Metropolis – Bournemouth boast an thrilling younger ahead line, but it surely’s considered one of their former heroes they will have to be careful for on Saturday, even when he’s not first selection in east London.
Callum Wilson, who hit 67 targets in his six seasons in Dorset, netted twice in a 2-2 draw on the Vitality Stadium in November. He has a selected fondness for this fixture, scoring in it 9 instances (seven for Bournemouth, two for West Ham).