Preview - West Ham vs. Aston Villa

A steady 2-0 win in the League Cup wasn't as easy as paper might suggest, it wasn't a classic performance and we needed a little help, but alas, the quarter finals and another game with Spurs await.

Sam Allardyce’s charges won at Championship leaders Burnley on Tuesday night, thus advancing to the last eight of the Capital One Cup. The Hammers could do with some similar results in the Premier League, as they currently find themselves just a point above the bottom-three. Aston Villa are not much better off, with Paul Lambert’s men unable to score a goal during the month of October.

Th battle will be in the middle of the park and Mohammed Diame and Fabian Delph are likely to be key players in West Ham’s Premier League clash with Aston Villa at Upton Park on Saturday.

West Ham have won only one of their four home games in the Premier League this season and have scored only eight goals in their nine games so far, and they will not find it easy against a Villa side that seems to relish playing away from home.

Remarkably, Paul Lambert has won more games away from home than at Villa Park since taking over as manager last summer. The Villans have already won twice on the road this season.

Matthew Taylor and Mladen Petric have been added to the West Ham injury list, while Villa are without Antonio Luna and Joe Bennett, with Gabriel Agbonlahor also likely to miss out.

I predict confidently that we will get a win today, 2-0 

COYI