Burnley v West Ham predictions: Clarets can land a blow on highflying Hammers

Free football tips, best bets and analysis for Burnley v West Ham in the Premier League on Monday.

Where to watch

Sky Sports Main Event & Premier League, 8.15pm Monday

Best bet

Both teams to score
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Team news

Burnley
Robbie Brady and Kevin Long are sidelined.

West Ham
The Hammers are still without Declan Rice, Arthur Masuaku and Aaron Cresswell. Jesse Lingard and Michail Antonio are doubts but Fabien Balbuena's red card against Chelsea has been rescinded.

Match preview

Wolves were bullied into submission at Burnley last week and West Brom, their nearest and not so dearest rivals, would love nothing more than to do exactly the same at the Hawthorns on Monday night.

After all, it isn’t as though it hasn’t happened before.

Cast your mind back to the early days of Big Sam’s reign and about the only thing he had to celebrate for a month or so was a 3-2 win at Molineux, where his direct approach worked wonders.

Wolves have been out of sorts for a while and if they’ve got a soft underbelly, Allardyce will certainly look to exploit it.

If Nuno can come up with a gameplan to resist their no-nonsense opponents then Wolves have to look a decent price. They are 16 points superior to their rivals and the trip to the Hawthorns will be far less hostile for the visitors than it would be in a more usual season.

It’s hard to imagine Willy Boly, Conor Coady and Daniel Podence being as poor again as they were last week in that dismantling by Sean Dyche’s Clarets.

And in any case, the Baggies have won only five times all season and can still produce their own horror shows, such as the individual blunders from Semi Ajayi and Kyle Bartley which cost them a vital victory against Aston Villa.

With all that in mind, this looks a tricky game to decipher. Those who believe form is temporary and class is permanent would have to favour Wolves, but West Brom showed in the reverse fixture they can exploit them.

So it may be best to focus on the one frontman on either side who is in any kind of form. West Brom’s Matheus Pereira has done his best to give the Baggies a shot at survival with eight goals since the middle of January, and the in-form Brazilian looks a nice price to strike first at the Hawthorns.

Key stat

Four of Burnley's last six home Premier League matches have ended 1-1.

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