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West Ham v Wolves preview
Rob Edwards accepts every team in the Premier League will view a game against Wolves as must-win but he is demanding a strong end to the season from his improving side.
Wolves have had a miserable campaign, winning just three league games, and they will almost certainly be playing Championship football in August.
That’s not to say Edwards will allow them to go quietly and they have the opportunity to put a major dent in West Ham’s survival bid tomorrow night when they visit the London Stadium.
He said: ”They’re all big games. This first one is really big for both teams. We want to keep improving, keep the momentum going. We feel we can win, we’ve shown that recently. That’s our mindset. West Ham will be feeling the same. Every team will look at Wolves and think ‘that’s a game we have to win’. That’s the situation we’re in, the next three games will be the same.
“Our fate’s not sealed at the moment, we want to take things as far as possible, we want to take as much positive momentum as possible into next season, to finish as high as possible, but to do that we have to get points. We haven’t thought ahead about what it might do to the table, we just have to try and find a way to win the game.”
Wolves will be without goalkeeper Sam Johnstone and defender Matt Doherty but, otherwise, Edwards has a full-strength squad to choose from as they return to action after 25 days due to the international break and the FA Cup quarter-finals.
“Some of the boys got away and got some sunshine or went to Iceland,” said Edwards. “It was nice, it was the right thing to do for that stage, we had so much time to prepare for this game. It was good for them, I think, they came back really refreshed.”
West Ham have an incredible chance to put pressure on their relegation rivals who play later across the weekend.
The Hammers are 18th, a point adrift of Tottenham and three behind Nottingham Forest.
Nuno Espirito Santo faces his former club tomorrow but denied suggestions the pressure on him and his players was too much to bear.
He said: ”We’ve been under pressure since the beginning. In the Premier League you can ask anyone, we are [under] constant scrutiny. We are being evaluated in every action we make. The players are used to that and they are ready. What is important is that we are, as a team, together with the fans. It’s going to be tough but it’ll be much easier if we can count on all the support we are going to have.
“As a club we are in a position that we don’t want to be and it’s up to us, the players and us coaches to take care of the mission that we have in hand. We know, we are aware but we are confident and we believe in each other.”
West Ham v Wolves team news
Jose Sa will start in goal for Wolves in place of Johnstone while Jackson Tchatchoua is likely to continue at right wing-back.
Crysencio Summerville, Jean-Clair Todibo and Callum Wilson are all expected to be fit for West Ham and Dinos Mavropanos has completed concussion protocols.
West Ham v Wolves predicted line-ups
West Ham: Areola; Walker-Peters, Disasi, Kilman, Diouf; Magassa, Soucek, Fernandes; Bowen, Summerville, Castellanos
Wolves: Sa; Mosquera, Krejci, S Bueno; Tchatchoua, Andre, J Gomes, H Bueno; Bellegarde, Mane, Arokodare
Where to watch West Ham v Wolves: TV channel, live online streams
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West Ham v Wolves stats
- None of the last 16 Premier League meetings between these teams have been drawn, with both sides winning eight apiece. The Hammers have failed to score in all eight of those defeats
- West Ham have won their last five Premier League home games against Wolves. Only against Blackburn (9 from 1996 to 2008), Middlesbrough (7 from 2000 to 2009), and Sunderland (6 from 2002 to 2010) have they won more consecutively in the competition
- The Hammers have lost one of their last six home Premier League games (W1 D4), collecting more points over that period (7) than in their first nine home matches of 2025/26 (6 – W2 L7)
- They have scored in eight of their last nine home matches in all competitions
- Jarrod Bowen has more Premier League goals against Wolves than the West Ham forward does against any other side (6), with five of those goals coming in his last five home matches against them, netting in each of his previous three
- John McGinn’s opener for Aston Villa last time out was the 17th goal West Ham have conceded from set pieces in the Premier League this season (excluding penalties); no side has conceded more and they have only conceded more in a single campaign in the competition in 2002/03 (18)
- Wolves are targeting a double in the fixture for the first time since 2019/20. Since their return to the Premier League in 2018, they’ve only beaten Southampton (9) more often in the division than they have West Ham (8)
- Following a run of 11 successive defeats between October and December, Wolves have only lost four of their 13 matches in the Premier League since Matchweek 19 (W3 D6), with only Arsenal (11), Manchester City (11), and Brighton & Hove Albion (12) conceding fewer goals across that time than their 15
- They have scored two goals in each of their last three Premier League games (W2 D1), netting just one fewer goal in total (6) than in their prior eight games (7)
- Both of Joao Gomes’ direct Premier League goal involvements this season have come in his last three games (1 goal, 1 assist), while only Nottingham Forest’s Elliot Anderson (259) has won possession more often than the Brazilian this term (164)
- Tolu Arokodare’s equaliser for Wolves last time out against Brentford was Wolves’ fifth Premier League goal via a substitute under Rob Edwards, and eighth substitute goal involvement overall; only Arsenal (9 goals, 16 goal involvements) and Fulham (7 goals, 10 goal involvements) have more since he joined the club
Prediction for West Ham v Wolverhampton
This is a tricky game for West Ham but their need is the greater and we think that might just give them the edge.
Prediction: West Ham 2-1 Wolves
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