Manuel Pellegrini’s side welcome Crystal Palace to the London Stadium this weekend as the Hammers look to extend their unbeaten run in the Premier League.
The home side haven’t tasted defeat since their 5-0 thrashing against Manchester City back at the start of August.
With this game up in the air as things stand, we’ve taken to FIFA 20 to simulate how the meeting could go and this is what they think might happen during the match.
West Ham XI: Roberto; Fredericks, Diop, Ogbonna, Cresswell; Rice, Noble; Yarmolenko, Lanzini, Anderson; Haller.
Crystal Palace XI: Guaita; Ward, Cahill, Kelly, Van Aanholt; McArthur, Kouyate, Schlupp; Zaha, Townsend, Ayew.
First half
West Ham started the game brightly, with Manuel Lanzini having a couple of chances at goal, only for Guaita to save well.
However, it was Crystal Palace who took the lead at the London Stadium after some nice work down their left wing. The ball eventually broke for Wilfried Zaha, who found room in the box before squaring it to Jordan Ayew to smash home from close range.
The home side reacted well though, before the close of play in the first half, Anderson set off on a tricky run down the left. He beat his man with a few stepovers before playing a ball across goal for Haller to finish. A nasty deflection took the ball away from Guaita and levelled up the scores.
Second half
The game opened up as the second half went on and it was in fact Palace who looked the most likely, knocking the ball around with great finesse as they went in search of a winner.
The interplay between the likes of Schlupp, Zaha and Ayew caused the home side plenty of problems.
Palace’s positive second-half display paid off when James McCarthy made a late run into the box and tapped home the winner with the Hammers unable to clear their lines.
Final score
West Ham fans will be hoping that they don’t see a repeat of that on Saturday night.
It was something of a timid performance from the Hammers, who let the game pass them by in the second half.
Pellegrini will be keen to ensure that they do not give up as many chances over the weekend or they risk seieng their unbeaten run come to an end in a game where they should be looking to come away with all three points.
