S.P. Read Esq: West Ham v Stoke

Our daily columnist and pundit S.P. Read Esq. looks ahead to Monday’s Premier League game between WEST HAM v STOKE and finds the best opportunities available on Star Spreads, the home of sports spread betting.

We’re now entering that unpredictable phase of the season, not that any other stage of the season is wholly predictable I might add 😉

With City crowned Champions yesterday after the abject performance of neighbours Man U it now becomes more about what the sides have left to play for.

Hard to believe it with such highly paid and pampered stars but their effort and motivation can wane at this advanced stage of the season.

Thankfully tonight’s game at the London Stadium should still have plenty of passion given that West Ham and Stoke are still very much in the relegation mix.

Particularly Stoke who would climb out of the bottom three if winning tonight but to do that they need to start scoring goals away from home and in their last last six away League games they have only mustered two goals.

The Hammers had a huge result when beating Southampton 3-0 and followed that up with a good point at Stamford Bridge. A win tonight could lift them as high 12th in the table from 15th and ever closer to the safety zone.

West Ham manager David Moyes said: “It was a great point at Chelsea. It’s not enough yet but the last two games have given us a lift.

“The ideal situation is to go unbeaten between now and the end of the season, there is no reason why we can’t do that.”

STARTING XI

West Ham

25 Hart
41 Rice
21 Ogbonna
3 Cresswell
5 Zabaleta
16 Noble
8 Kouyaté
26 Masuaku
31 Fernandes
18 João Mário
7 Arnautovic

Stoke

1 Butland
17 Shawcross
6 Zouma
15 Martins Indi
2 Bauer
27 Ndiaye
4 Allen
3 Pieters
22 Shaqiri
32 Sobhi
18 Diouf

West Ham v Stoke City
Premier League
20:00 Sky Sports Premier League / Sky Sports Main Event / Sky Sports Ultra HD

HEAD TO HEAD RECORD
(Maximum 10 matches)
Dec 2017 PREMIER Stoke 0-3 West Ham
Apr 2017 PREMIER Stoke 0-0 West Ham
Nov 2016 PREMIER West Ham 1-1 Stoke
May 2016 PREMIER Stoke 2-1 West Ham
Dec 2015 PREMIER West Ham 0-0 Stoke
Apr 2015 PREMIER West Ham 1-1 Stoke
Nov 2014 PREMIER Stoke 2-2 West Ham
Mar 2014 PREMIER Stoke 3-1 West Ham
Aug 2013 PREMIER West Ham 0-1 Stoke
Mar 2013 PREMIER Stoke 0-1 West Ham

With home advance and West Ham being in the better form I can only see this going one way. In a match where there should be plenty of goals I’m selling the third match goal at 72 with Star Spreads.

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