West Ham United and Southampton are going to face off on Sunday the 2nd of April at 2:00 pm in the 29th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be played in London at the London Stadium. The chosen referee is Paul Tierney.
West Ham United occupies the 19th position in the standings with 24 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Aston Villa in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 6 times, draw 6 times, and lost 14 times.
Southampton occupies the 20th place in the standings with 23 points. It comes from a 3-3 draw against Tottenham Hotspur in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 6 times, draw 5 times, and lost 17 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
West Ham United
West Ham United has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (12 times or 46.15%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (12 times), 3-4-2-1 (5 times), 4-3-3 (4 times), 4-1-4-1 (once), 4-4-2 (once), 3-4-3 (once), 3-4-1-2 (once) and 3-5-2 (once).
David Moyes is expected to play against Southampton with the following players: Kurt Zouma, Vladimír Coufal, Tomáš Souček, Declan Rice, Lucas Paquetá, Jarrod Bowen, Saïd Benrahma and Danny Ings.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed, the projected average age of West Ham United would be 28.00.
There are doubts about the presence of Łukasz Fabiański, Emerson and Nayef Aguerd.
David Moyes will probably not be able to employ Michail Antonio and Gianluca Scamacca because of injury.
Southampton
Southampton has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (12 times or 42.86%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (12 times), 4-4-2 (8 times), 5-3-2 (3 times), 3-4-2-1 (2 times), 3-4-1-2 (once), 3-1-4-2 (once) and 4-3-3 (once).
Rubén Sellés Salvador is expected to play against West Ham United with the following players: Gavin Bazunu, Romain Perraud, Jan Bednarek, Kyle Walker-Peters, James Ward-Prowse, Roméo Lavia, Stuart Armstrong, Mohamed Elyounoussi and Theo Walcott.
Assuming that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Southampton would be 26.89.
There are doubts about the presence of Mohammed Salisu and Che Adams.
Armel Bella-Kotchap, Juan Larios López and Valentino Livramento will definitely miss the match.