[Liverweb] West Ham Match Preview

Liverweb Match Preview

Opponents : West Ham United
Date : Wednesday April 26 @ 7.45pm
Venue : Upton Park
TV Coverage : Canal + Sport (D/F/N/S), TV8 Turkey, Diema 2, NTV+
Sport On-Line, Digit Alb 5, ART Sport, ART Prime Sport, Supersport
1, TPS Foot, MegaSport, Telesport Ro, Sport 1 Hu

Head to Head - Premiership Head to Head
This match was due to be played at the weekend but with the FA Cup
semi finals it was pushed back. The game will be seen as a dress
rehearsal for the FA Cup Final where the two teams will meet in
three weeks time.

Squads : Rafa Benitez can welcome Robbie Fowler back in to the squad
after he was cup tied at the weekend. The Reds may also rotate the
squad a bit with Kromkamp, Warnock, Hamann and Agger all coming in
to contention.

Liverpool (from): Reina, Finnan, Carragher, Hyypia, Riise, Gerrard,
Alonso, Sissoko, Kewell, Luis Garcia, Crouch, Fowler, Dudek, Cisse,
Hamann, Morientes, Warnock, Agger, Kromkamp, Traore.

West Ham (from): Hislop, Ferdinand, Gabbidon, Collins, Konchesky,
Benayoun, Reo-Coker, Mullins, Etherington, Ashton, Harewood, Walker,
Scaloni, Clarke, Ward, Newton, Reid Fletcher, Sheringham, Zamora,
Katan.

Team Stats : The Reds will be looking for their 50th league win over
the Hammers.

A win for the Reds would bring them their 150th league point against
the Hammers.

Away from home the Reds have played 48 league games against West Ham
and have won 16 of them. With 15 draws and 17 losses West Ham have
scored 64 goals to the Reds' 61.

Specifically in the premiership there have been 21 games thus far
with the Reds having won 11 of them and lost just thr four. All the
losses though have come at Upton Park.

The last time the Reds played at West Ham was in 2002-03 when they
won 3-0. Early goals from Baros and Gerrard set the Reds on their
way whilst Heskey scored the third in the second half.

A Reds win will complete a league double over the Hammers this
season. The Reds won 2-0 earlier this season. Alonso and Zenden
bagged the goals on the day.

Player Stats : Steve Finnan and Luis Garcia will look to play in
their 50th game of the season in this one.

Sami Hyypia hopes to play in his 250th Premiership match in this
one.

Luis Garcia will hope to reach a quarter century of goals for the
Reds in this one. Robbie Fowler needs one to make 125.

Momo Sissoko will hope to start his 20th league game of the season.

Fernando Morientes has come on as a sub nine times in the league for
the Reds.

Peter Crouch has been subbed nineteen times in the league so far.

Referee : Andre Marriner - has taken charge of just seven games so
far this season including the Reds' 2-0 defeat at Charlton.

Betting : Liverpool 4/5, West Ham 11/4, Draw : 9/4

Liverweb Prediction : West Ham 0 Liverpool 2

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