West Ham United vs Leicester City

London Stadium is the venue as West Ham United and Leicester City lock horns in an exciting Premier League showdown.

West Ham staged a breathtaking second-half comeback to turn a 2-1 HT deficit into a commanding 4-2 victory away to Newcastle United on the opening weekend. A memorable trip to St James’ Park, in fact, saw the ‘Hammers’ net more goals on Matchday 1 than in their previous seven Premier League seasonal openers combined. That comes in handy going into this encounter, especially considering they have lost their first home league game of the season in each of the last three campaigns. Notably, though, David Moyes’ side mustered up ten home Premier League triumphs in 2020/21, their best win tally in a single top-flight campaign since 2001/02. Last season’s 3-2 victory in this exact fixture brought West Ham’s five-game winless run in home Premier League H2Hs to a halt (D2, L3).

In the meantime, Leicester City earned a hard-fought 1-0 home win over Wolverhampton on the opening weekend. The ‘Foxes’ might need to score one more this time around to ensure another victory, given that they’ve managed just three clean sheets across their last 28 Premier League matches against West Ham (W9, D6, L13). Brendan Rodgers’ side will have to defy their ‘Monday jinx’ to claim all three points here, having picked up just one triumph in their last 14 away Premier League fixtures held on this day (D4, L9). Rodgers himself has ended up on the losing side in his previous two managerial encounters against Moyes in England’s top-flight, as many reverses as he had in their seven such meetings beforehand (W3, D2, L2). Moreover, a run of seven consecutive away Premier League matches without a clean sheet casts further doubt on Leicester’s hopes of winning here.