West Ham vs Southampton

West Ham host Southampton on Sunday afternoon in what is a crucial clash in the Premier League relegation run-in.The Hammers are only a point ah.

- Coming into this weekend’s games, Southampton have picked up the highest share of their Premier League points this season away from home (57% – 13/23). - No other sides have kept fewer clean sheets in the Premier League this season than Southampton (4) and West Ham (5). - Since losing three straight home league games from November to December, West Ham are unbeaten in their last four at the London Stadium (W2 D2). Southampton have been responsible for three of these victories by bottom-placed sides in 2022-23, a joint-high (also Leicester). - Saïd Benrahma has more Premier League goal involvements than any other West Ham player this season (7 – 4 goals, 3 assists). “We’re in a really important stage, lots of games.

Minute-by-minute report: Who will come out on top when the relegation-threatened duo meet at the London Stadium? Join Daniel Harris.

I hold myself to the highest of standards and have never done anything like this before in a long coaching career, and I know I fell way short of those with my actions.” And I also think that adding a “clear and obvious” caveat gave refs an extra layer of subjective interpretation, so I’ve now got no clue what’s going to happen sometimes, even though I can what happened in a particular incident. VAR is not perfect, mistakes have been made but on balance the refereeing mistakes that it rectifies far exceed these mistakes.” This time, though, it’s Emerson not Kehrer and the delivery is poor. 75 min Lovely feet from Emerson, feinting over the ball, so Bednarek ploughs through him and is booked. No matter: he picks out a claret head at the back post, and West Ham clear. 82 min And when the ball’s swung in, Aguerd does superbly to flick towards the back post, where Paqueta’s first touch is excellent … He holds up, buffeting defenders, but can’t quite conjure a shooting lane, so he spreads right to where Fornals now is, picks up the cut-back, and can’t quite get the ball controlled. and Bazunu does pretty well to dive on a low cross, feet about his phizog. Thanks for your company and comments – enjoy the rest of the weekend. I think if we had better-drafted laws, VAR would work better, but ultimately it’s made things more complicated, I think, by drawing attention to their inherently subjective nature and adding an extra layer of “clear and obvious” on top of that. Southampton used to be lauded as one of those “well-run” clubs, good at finding talent and succession planning.

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West Ham and Southampton clash in a huge relegation six-pointer at London Stadium on Sunday, with the Hammers and Saints separated by just one point.

West Ham score with the first real chance of the game as a free kick was swung in and Southampton failed to switch on. Not the start the home fans would have wanted and they are starting to get on the back of their players a little. Lot of passes back and sideways from the Hammers. Both teams have to go for it but West Ham are under more pressure. It was given offside on the pitch but VAR checked it and he was just onside. Almost a second for West Ham just before half time after a lovely counter attack. Fabianski with a low save as Romeo Lavia picked up the loose ball from a corner and drilled an effort in. The first cross Saints have whipped into the box and the sub was so close to scoring his first Premier League goal. Sulemana wins the ball back, drives forward and drills a shot wide. They move out of the bottom three and Saints remain bottom. From the resulting corner Lucas Paqueta lifts a shot over the bar. And there may be plenty of Premier League games like this between now and the end of the season because are so many teams involved in the relegation scramble.

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The win moves West Ham up to 14th in the After a nervy start, West Ham went ahead on 25 minutes with their first effort on goal when Aguerd met a Thilo Kehrer free-kick to head home a huge goal. West Ham secured a precious three points in their battle to stay up as they beat Southampton to ease the pressure on David Moyes.

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Southampton stay bottom of the Premier League as Nayef Aguerd's header lifts West Ham out of the relegation zone and up to 14th.

Lucas Paquetá (West Ham United) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is just a bit too high. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse with a cross. - Away3 - Shots - 22Benrahma - 20Bowen - 41Rice - 27Aguerd - 4Zouma - 24Kehrer - 1Fabianski Reasons for the Hammers being in that position are not obvious.

West Ham and Southampton clash in a huge relegation six-pointer at London Stadium on Sunday, with the Hammers and Saints separated by just one point.

The loss of Haaland is obviously a huge concern for City as he suffered a groin issue and did not play for Norway over the international break and returned to Manchester for treatment. It has been a glorious sunny morning here, but the clouds are bubbling up just as the action is about to on the pitch at the Etihad. Very attacking lineup from Liverpool and they are pressing very high up the pitch. I was right in the line with that in the press box here at the Etihad and thought that was offside. The rest of the team news is as expected. Liverpool a real threat on the counter, while Man City have been a little clunky but are still carving out plenty of chances sans Haaland. The Manchester City fans at the Etihad are now doing the Poznan. His shot is blocked and the rebound falls straight to Ilkay Gundogan who slots home. FULL TIME: Manchester City 4-1 Liverpool – Well, that was rather straightforward in the end, wasn’t it? Liverpool remain on 42 points and have lost ground in the top four race after back-to-back away defeats in the Premier League. They have a tough remaining schedule but have fared well against the big boys this season and they drew with West Ham in the return game back in October as this looks like a very even matchup. Well, they’ve won just two of their last 14 Premier League games and the pressure is mounting on David Moyes as his side sit in the relegation zone with 12 games of the season to go following their 1-1 draw at home to Aston Villa last time out in the league.

Nayef Aguerd's header proved the difference in a game low on quality with Var taking three minutes to award the goal.

In the absence of a central free kick and the chance that creates for the lethal James Ward-Prowse Southampton never looked like scoring. Bowen looked West Ham’s biggest threat throughout, going close after sending two opponents to the deck with a dummy then shooting, Jan Bednarek was in position for a crucial block. West Ham emerged from an agricultural meeting of bottom vs second bottom in the Premier League with a 1-0 win which took them to 14th.