West Ham vs Brighton tips and predictions: Hammers to edge entertaining affair at London Stadium
- George Dempsey
- 30 December 2023
West Ham will play host to Brighton and Hove Albion at the London Stadium on Tuesday evening with both sides in fine goalscoring form.
West Ham and Brighton will be feeling good about themselves on the back of recording arguably their biggest wins of the Premier League season.
David Moyes masterminded his first-ever win away from Arsenal at the Emirates, with goals from Tomas Soucek and Konstantinos Mavropanos doing the damage.
Meanwhile, Brighton were putting Tottenham to the sword in style. The Seagulls were unmatched as they rattled in four unanswered goals before a late wobble.
Joao Pedro converted a pair of penalties but the dancing Brazilian played his part in Brighton’s opener, setting up Jack Hinshelwood for a rasping drive.
The two teams will conclude the New Year fixture list at the London Stadium on Tuesday evening and the form book suggests there will be goals.
Both teams have scored in all but one of Brighton’s away games this campaign, while the Hammers have scored two or more at home on nine occasions across all competitions.
Furthermore, we’ve seen some wild games between these sides. West Ham won 3-1 at the AMEX in August, just five months after suffering a 4-0 loss there.
West Ham’s nine Premier League home games have produced 27 goals while Brighton’s nine away games have averaged 4.11 goals.
As deadly as Roberto De Zerbi's side are going forward, the Seagulls are very leaky. Their growing injury list is hard to ignore and the Hammers will be highly motivated to back up the win against Arsenal.
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Team news
Michail Antonio and Lucas Paqueta are ruled out while Nayef Aguerd and Kurt Zouma could recover from illness and injury respectively to feature in the squad.
Mavrapanos and Angelo Ogbonna were sensational at the Emirates and have probably earned another start regardless.
Julio Enciso, Joel Veltman, Ansu Fati, Kaoru Mitoma, Simon Adingra, Adam Webster, Tariq Lamptey and Solly March are unavailable due to injury.
Pervis Estupinan made a timely return from injury against Tottenham and could start here.
Key stats
- West Ham have scored over 1.5 goals in six of nine Premer League home games
- There have been 27 goals across West Ham’s nine Premier League home games
- There have been 37 goals across Brighton’s nine Premier League away games
- Both teams have scored in eight of Brighton’s nine Premier League away games
