Pep Guardiola has made three modifications from the facet that began towards Actual Madrid in midweek.
Rayan Ait-Nouri, Omar Marmoush and Matheus Nunes all begin, with Ruben Dias, Jeremy Doku and Savinho all making manner.
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Mateo Kovacic additionally makes a welcome return on the subs bench after an absence 4 months.
Line-ups
CITY: Donnarumma, Nunes, Khusanov, Guéhi, Ait-Nouri, Rodrigo, Bernardo (C), O’Reilly, Marmoush, Semenyo, Haaland
Subs: Trafford, Dias, Reijnders, Ake, Kovacic, Cherki, Doku, Nico, Foden
West Ham United: To observe…
Formation and techniques
Gianluigi Donnarumma takes the gloves with Nunes and Ait-Nouri as our full-backs and Abdukodir Khusanov and Marc Guéhi in central defence.
In midfield, Rodri will anchor a trio that features skipper Bernardo and Nico O’Reilly.
Erling Haaland will likely be flanked by Antoine Semenyo and Jeremy Doku in a 4-3-3 formation.
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Blues’ hammer time
Metropolis won’t be shedding concentrate on our Premier League title problem.
The midweek defeat to Actual Madrid was a blow, however ideas of the Champions League will put to 1 facet as we return to league motion towards an enhancing West Ham crew.
The London Stadium has been a really glad looking floor for Metropolis within the Premier League with seven wins and two attracts in our 9 visits and if there’s any fact within the idea of ‘horses for programs’, we could have a spring in our step as we stroll out this night.
As will Erling Haaland, who has bagged 11 objectives towards the Hammers – greater than he has scored towards every other opponent – and with our Norwegian striker trying to discover high type once more, this will likely be an opportunity to do precisely that.
This will likely be a troublesome recreation, regardless of the above statistics, and the house help will little question be buoyant and noisy underneath the lights in East London.
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However Pep Guardiola says his crew are simply as determined for 3 factors because the relegation-threatened hosts are, so count on Metropolis to go for this and intention to ascertain a commanding lead as shortly as potential.
Stats, details & milestones
West Ham United are winless in 20 Premier League matches towards Metropolis (D3 L17), since a 2-1 win in September 2015. It’s their longest ever winless league run towards an opponent.
Metropolis are unbeaten of their final 20 Premier League video games towards West Ham (W17 D3). Solely towards Fulham (a present run of twenty-two) and Newcastle (22 between 2006 and 2018) have that they had an extended unbeaten run of their league historical past.
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West Ham have by no means crushed Metropolis on the London Stadium within the Premier League in 9 makes an attempt (D2 L7) – they’ve solely confronted Brighton as typically with out successful there (D7 L2).
Following a 1-0 win over Fulham final trip, West Ham need to win consecutive Premier League video games for the third time this season, beforehand doing so in November (v Newcastle and Burnley) and January (v Spurs and Sunderland).
When counting first halves solely, Metropolis would have 67 factors within the Premier League this season, 13 greater than every other facet (Arsenal 2nd with 54). Nonetheless, they’re eighth in a second half desk with 41 factors; their distinction of 26 factors between first and second half outcomes is probably the most of any facet within the top-flight in 2025-26.
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Metropolis have misplaced simply one in all their final 17 Premier League video games (W11 D5), taking place 2-0 to Manchester United in January. Nonetheless, the Blues have dropped eight factors from successful positions in that run because of attracts with Chelsea, Brighton, Tottenham Hotspur and Nottingham Forest.
Metropolis boss Pep Guardiola is unbeaten in all 19 of his Premier League video games towards West Ham (W17 D2), probably the most a supervisor has confronted an opponent with out ever shedding within the competitors. In the meantime, the one supervisor to be unbeaten of their first 20 Premier League video games towards an opponent is Arsène Wenger towards Leicester Metropolis (first 20 between 1997 and 2017).
Metropolis’s Erling Haaland has scored extra Premier League objectives towards West Ham than every other opponent (11). He’s netted at the least twice in his final three towards the Hammers – solely Michael Owen towards Newcastle (1998-2001) and Harry Kane towards Everton (2017-2018) have scored 2+ objectives in 4 consecutive Premier League video games towards an opponent.
4 of Crysencio Summerville – injured for this recreation – has scored 5 Premier League objectives this season and all have put West Ham 1-0 forward, the best proportion of opening objectives of any participant to attain at the least 4 instances this time period (80%).
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Eight of Antoine Semenyo’s 10 Premier League objectives for Bournemouth this season got here within the second half of video games, whereas all 5 of his strikes for Metropolis to date have come within the first half
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