West Ham vs Southampton LIVE: Hammers meet Saints in crucial Premier League relegation clash with David Moyes under increasing pressure – kick-off time, team news and how to follow
West Ham host Southampton on Sunday afternoon in what is a crucial clash in the Premier League relegation run-in.
The Hammers are only a point ahead of bottom-of-the-table Saints with a loss for either team hugely threatening their top-flight status.
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David Moyes has been under pressure this season after a torrid campaign for his side and if they do not come out on top this weekend, his job could be at risk.
He faces Ruben Selles’ side who travel to the capital in hopes of moving off the foot of the table by building on their dramatic comeback draw against Tottenham last time out.
West Ham vs Southampton: How to follow
This Premier League clash will take place on Sunday, April 2.
Kick-off at the London Stadium is scheduled for 2pm.
The match will be broadcast live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League
talkSPORT will also have regular updates of the action.
To tune in to talkSPORT or talkSPORT 2 through the website, click HERE for the live stream.
u can also listen via the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM.
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West Ham vs Southampton: Team news
West Ham XI: Fabianski, Emerson, Kehrer, Aguerd, Zouma, Soucek, Rice, Paqueta, Benrahma, Bowen, Ings.
Subs: Areola, Cresswell, Coufal, Fornals, Antonio, Lanzini, Downes, Cornet, Ogbonna.
Southampton XI: Bazunu, Perraud, Walker-Peters, Caleta-Car, Bednarek, Ward-Prowse, Lavia, Stuart Armstrong, Mara, Elyounoussi, Walcott.
Subs: McCarthy, Maitland-Niles, Lyanco, Aribo, Orsic, Onuachu, Sulemana, Alcaraz, Diallo.
West Ham vs Southampton: What has been said?
West Ham boss Moyes is desperate for a win: "The simple thing is we've got to score goals and not concede any goals, in between that are lots of other things.
"The most important thing is winning games. We've got to get that win under our belt.
"We're in a really important stage, lots of games. We've got three games in six days, we have to take what we can get."
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West Ham vs Southampton: Match facts
- Coming into this weekend's games, only Kieran Trippier (49) has created more chances from set plays than James Ward-Prowse (35) in the Premier League this season, while the Southampton skipper is the only player to create 25+ chances from both open play (27) and set pieces (35) in the division this term.
- Before the March international break, only Rodri (243) won possession more times than West Ham’s Declan Rice (232) in the Premier League this season, while, among midfielders, only Rodri again (300) made more progressive carries (moving 5+ metres upfield with the ball) than Rice (222) in the division this term.
- Saïd Benrahma has more Premier League goal involvements than any other West Ham player this season (7 – 4 goals, 3 assists). The Algerian is looking to score in back-to-back Premier League appearances for the first time since December 2021, when one of those matches was at home to Southampton.
- No other sides have kept fewer clean sheets in the Premier League this season than Southampton (4) and West Ham (5). For the Hammers, five clean sheets is their fewest at this stage of a top-flight season since 2018-19 under Manuel Pellegrini (4), while it is the lowest tally by a David Moyes side in their first 26 matches of a Premier League campaign since Sunderland in 2016-17 (4).
- Southampton have picked up as many points in their six Premier League games under Rubén Sellés (8 – W2 D2 L2) as they had in their 17 league matches beforehand (W2 D2 L13).
- Sides starting the day bottom of the Premier League have won 11 league matches this season, four more than the whole of last term (7), and the most in a single campaign in the competition since 2017-18 (12). Southampton have been responsible for three of these victories by bottom-placed sides in 2022-23, a joint-high (also Leicester).
- Since losing three straight home league games from November to December, West Ham are unbeaten in their last four at the London Stadium (W2 D2). Not since April 2022 have the Hammers gone longer without a home defeat in the Premier League (six games).
- Coming into this weekend’s games, Southampton have picked up the highest share of their Premier League points this season away from home (57% - 13/23). Meanwhile, only Nottingham Forest (77%) have a higher share of points won at home in 2022-23 than West Ham (75% - 18/24).
- Southampton are looking to win consecutive league visits to West Ham for the first time since April 1992 – they'd lost four in a row at the Hammers before last season's 3-2 victory.
- West Ham have lost just one of their last 10 Premier League games against Southampton (W6 D3), though that was a 3-2 defeat in this exact fixture last season.
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