West Ham vs Brighton Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 2nd January 2024

West Ham enjoy home advantage, when visitors Brighton swing by on Tuesday for a Premier League clash.

Ranked as number six in the Premier League standings, The Hammers, have so far collected 33 points this season, while Brighton collected 30 points. This puts them up as number eight after 19 rounds.

West Ham are feeling good about themselves after claiming three wins on the bounce. They'll be very eager to continue their run of wins against Brighton at London Stadium.

West Ham presents an average of just 1.7 goals per game in their last ten games. They scored a moderate 17times, while also conceding 14. This amounts to an average of 1.4 per game in which, they kept their opponents from scoring in three matches.

Brighton head into this match on 1.6 goals per game in their last ten matches. They scored an acceptable total of 16, while also conceding 15 goals. This amounts to 1.5 on average per game, where they kept their opponents from scoring zero times.

The most recent meeting between the two sides ended in a 1-3 triumph for West Ham, who are looking to stay on top on Tuesday at London Stadium. No doubt, Brighton are planning a comeback, though.

West Ham vs Brighton Prediction

West Ham Form

West Ham took six points from their last three matches, but started off by losing 5-1 against Liverpool. They responded by beating Manchester United 2-0, and followed that up by winning 0-2 against Arsenal. In their last six Premier League home matches, West Ham have three wins, while they've drawn two and lost one. They scored 11 and conceded six goals.

Brighton Form

In their past three matches, Brighton lost 2-0 against Arsenal, drew 1-1 with Crystal Palace and won 4-2 against Tottenham. Brighton only have one paltry win to show from the last six away games in the Premier League. In these six matches they drew two and lost three as well as being outscored by 11 goals to eight.

Brighton will be looking for a good result at London Stadium, but backing West Ham in current form looks the value bet this coming Tuesday.

West Ham won five matches, scored 17 goals and conceded 15 in their last nine games against teams from the top half of the Premier League table. This earned them 16 points. Brighton won three of their last nine matches against teams from the top half of the Premier League table, scoring 17 and conceding 22 goals. They collected ten points from these. West Ham have a record of ten wins, three draws and six defeats in the Premier League this season. Brighton are looking at eight wins, six draws and five defeats in the Premier League.

West Ham vs Brighton Squads

West Ham Squad

David Moyes will choose the starting lineup for the upcoming game against Brighton from the players listed below (the information in the brackets refers to goals scored and matches played in the Premier League this season):

Alphonse Areola (0/16), Joseph Anang (0/0), Lukasz Fabianski (0/3), Aaron Cresswell (0/3), Angelo Ogbonna (0/5), Ben Johnson (0/0), Edson Alvarez (0/16), Emerson (0/18), Konstantinos Mavropanos (1/6), Kurt Zouma (1/16), Nayef Aguerd (1/16), Thilo Kehrer (0/4), Vladimir Coufal (0/19), Conor Coventry (0/0), James Ward-Prowse (3/18), Lucas Paqueta (2/18), Mohammed Kudus (6/16), Oliver Scarles (0/0), Pablo Fornals (0/13), Tomas Soucek (5/18), Daniel Chesters (0/0), Danny Ings (0/10), Divin Mubama (0/3), Jarrod Bowen (11/18), Lewis Orford (0/0), Maxwel Cornet (0/1), Michail Antonio (2/12), Said Benrahma (0/12).

Brighton Squad

This is the full squad of players that the Brighton head coach De Zerbi will select from for his starting XI:

Bart Verbruggen (0/9), Jason Steele (0/10), Thomas McGill (0/0), Adam Webster (0/6), Igor (0/11), Jan Paul van Hecke (0/14), Joel Veltman (0/16), Lewis Dunk (1/16), Pervis Estupinan (2/7), Tariq Lamptey (0/5), Adam Lallana (0/13), Billy Gilmour (0/18), Carlos Baleba (0/12), Facundo Buonanotte (1/11), Jack Hinshelwood (2/8), Jakub Moder (0/0), James Milner (0/12), Julio Enciso (0/2), Kaoru Mitoma (3/17), Mahmoud Dahoud (0/9), Pascal Gross (3/17), Solly March (3/7), Ansu Fati (2/9), Danny Welbeck (2/11), Evan Ferguson (6/17), Joao Pedro (7/19), Simon Adingra (4/17).

West Ham vs Brighton Team News

West Ham might be looking at three missing players for their upcoming assignment against Brighton.

Lucas Paqueta, Nayef Aguerd and Michail Antonio are all absent from the West Ham squad that faces Brighton at London Stadium.

Brighton could have a whole host of players on the injured and absent players for their next match, as eight players are nursing various problems.

Brighton need to do without Simon Adingra, Kaoru Mitoma, Joel Veltman, Tariq Lamptey, Ansu Fati, Adam Webster, Solly March and Julio Enciso, who are not fit enough to travel to London Stadium.

West Ham vs Brighton Lineups

West Ham vs Brighton H2H

The last time the pair played each other, West Ham came out the other side as 1-3 winners and surely won't mind a repeat of that result. Brighton won three of the previous ten matches, with West Ham claiming one wins in these ten encounters. The bookies have Brighton to win this match at best price odds of 7/4.

West Ham vs Brighton Results

In eight of the previous ten matches between West Ham and Brighton both teams scored.

West Ham vs Brighton Betting Tips

Mohammed Kudus has four strikes in six Premier League matches for The Hammers, who will be relying on his services, when clashing with Brighton. The visitors are looking to Joao Pedro, who has provided his team with three Premier League goals.

Of their 10 most recent games at London Stadium across all tournaments, West Ham won seven times, drew two and lost one. Brighton won three of their recent 10 games on their travels, as well as drawing three and losing four. West Ham should go full-on attack at London Stadium, as Brighton don't have the best record, when it comes to conceding. They managed just five clean sheets in their 10 most recent away matches. The hosts claimed two clean sheets in their last 10 matches at home.

There were more than three goals scored six times in the past ten encounters between West Ham and Brighton, with the former averaging 1.4 goals a game. Brighton scored two goals per game, while both teams to score paid out eight times in this run. Over 2.5 goals happened in five of West Ham’s last ten matches across all tournaments. They pulled off an average of 1.6 goals during this run. Over 2.5 goals happened in four of the last ten outings for Brighton, who managed to score 1.6 times in those matches.