West Ham vs Manchester City Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 14th March 2026

When Manchester City come to London Stadium for the Premier League match on Saturday, West Ham will be hoping to use their home advantage to their advantage.

One spot behind the leader of the table, The Citizens have claimed 60 points after 29 rounds, while The Hammers have amassed 28 points and are now ranked as number 18 in the Premier League standings.

Their upcoming match is a difficult challenge for West Ham, who next face Manchester City in their continuous fight to avoid relegation. They should be highly motivated to spring a surprise, even against a tough opponent like Manchester City.

The Hammers go into their next Premier League match, scoring a humble average of 1.4 per game in their last ten matches. They scored a mundane 14 times, while conceding 16. That amounts to an average of 1.6 per game, where they kept their opponents from scoring three times.

The Sky Blues scored 16 goals, conceded ten and managed three clean sheets in their previous ten matches.

The Citizens got the better of West Ham in the last two h2h meetings, winning by 3-0 and 4-1, respectively.

West Ham vs Manchester City Prediction

West Ham Form

In their last three matches, West Ham lost 5-2 against Liverpool, won 0-1 against Fulham, before drawing 2-2 against Brentford. West Ham only managed one meagre home win from a possible six at London Stadium in the Premier League. They also drew three and lost two of these six encounters, in which they scored seven and conceded seven goals.

Manchester City Form

Manchester City have a win and a draw to show from their last three matches. They first finished even in a 2-2 draw with Nottingham Forest, before they won a game against Newcastle with a 1-3 scoreline. Unfortunately for them, this was followed by a 3-0 defeat at the hands of Real Madrid. Manchester City won half their previous six away matches in the Premier League, as well as seeing two draws and suffering one defeat. They scored seven goals whilst conceding six.

The crowd usually get a very entertaining encounter, when West Ham face Manchester City, and we see no reason for this to end on Saturday. The value bet lies with goals.

West Ham fought their way to zero wins and two points from their last nine games against teams inside the top six. They were on target nine times in these matches, but also let in 25 goals. Manchester City took seven wins and 23 points in the previous ten encounters with opponents from the bottom six of the Premier League, as they scored 24 goals while also allowing ten against. West Ham are looking at a record of seven wins, seven draws and 15 defeats in the Premier League this season. Manchester City are looking at 18 wins, six draws and five defeats in the Premier League.

West Ham vs Manchester City Squads

West Ham Squad

Nuno Espirito Santo will choose the starting lineup for the upcoming game against Manchester City 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 (0/20), Lukasz Fabianski (0/0), Mads Hermansen (0/9), Aaron Wan-Bissaka (0/20), Axel Disasi (0/5), Ezra Mayers (0/6), Jean-Clair Todibo (0/19), Konstantinos Mavropanos (0/22), Kyle Walker-Peters (1/18), Max Kilman (0/21), Soungoutou Magassa (1/18), Crysencio Summerville (5/24), Freddie Potts (0/19), Malick Diouf (0/23), Mateus Fernandes (3/27), Mohamadou Kante (0/6), Oliver Scarles (0/12), Tomas Soucek (4/26), Adama Traore (0/20), Callum Wilson (5/24), Jarrod Bowen (8/29), Keiber Lamadrid (0/0), Pablo (0/5), Valentin Castellanos (2/9).

Manchester City Squad

Below is the full team squad of Manchester City. The manager Guardiola will pick his starting XI against West Ham from these players:

Gianluigi Donnarumma (0/26), James Trafford (0/3), Marcus Bettinelli (0/0), Abdukodir Khusanov (0/14), John Stones (0/7), Josko Gvardiol (2/16), Marc Guehi (2/27), Max Alleyne (0/2), Nathan Ake (0/14), Rayan Ait Nouri (0/12), Rico Lewis (0/10), Ruben Dias (2/25), Bernardo Silva (1/29), Jeremy Doku (1/21), Mateo Kovacic (0/1), Matheus Nunes (1/26), Nico Gonzalez (1/21), Nico O'Reilly (4/27), Phil Foden (7/25), Rayan Cherki (3/24), Rodri (1/17), Ryan McAidoo (0/0), Savinho (0/17), Sverre Halseth Nypan (0/0), Tijjani Reijnders (5/25), Antoine Semenyo (15/28), Erling Haaland (22/28), Omar Marmoush (1/16).

West Ham vs Manchester City Team News

Manchester City seem to have only one player on the injured and absent list, when they travel to London Stadium to face West Ham.

Rodri nurses an injury and won't be travelling with Manchester City.

West Ham vs Manchester City Lineups

West Ham vs Manchester City H2H

The Sky Blues won 3-0 and 4-1 in the two most recent meetings with West Ham, and go into their upcoming match with a psychological advantage. The Sky Blues look to extend their dominance on their upcoming hosts, who have found it tough to deal with the former. The visitors beat The Hammers eight times in last ten Encounters. The bookies have Manchester City to win this match at best price odds of 2/3.

West Ham vs Manchester City Results

Keep an eye out for goals as Manchester City visit West Ham, since their ten matches saw over 2.5 goals scored nine times. Best priced odds on over 2.5 goals are 1/2 at the bookmakers.

West Ham vs Manchester City Betting Tips

There are a few players in each team who currently draws attention to their name in the goal-scoring department. For the visitors, Antoine Semenyo has been hitting the net regularly and now has four goals in his last six games. Should he find himself in the starting line-up this coming Saturday, it is because Manchester City bank on him to build on these numbers against West Ham. The latter relies on Crysencio Summerville, who found the target three times in six games.

In their last 10 matches at London Stadium across all tournaments West Ham won two times, drew four and lost four times. Manchester City claimed five wins, two draw and three defeats in their last 10 games away. Goals are usually flowing for West Ham on home soil these days, and at both ends of pitch. Both teams found the back of the net in seven of their last 10 matches here. In contrast, both teams to score happened five times for Manchester City in their last 10 league games away from home.

Both teams to score was a winning bet seven times in the last ten encounters between these two rivals, while at least four goals happened five times. West Ham managed an average of 0.8 goals, while Manchester City averaged 2.7 goals a game. Over 2.5 goals came out five times in the previous ten matches across all tournaments for West Ham, who scored an average of 1.6 goals along the way. Over 2.5 goals appeared in eight of the last ten matches that Manchester City played across all tournaments. They scored two times on average in the process.