West Ham - Brighton match betting

After nice week with UEFA Champions league football, we come back to the league games. Today begins 9th matchweek in Premier League. West Ham meets with Brighton at home.

First of all, both teams show very similar results this season. Of course, they aren't in the best position but that is just a start of the season and many teams still doesn’t show their best shape.

Both West Ham and Brighton has the same points in Premier league – 8. West Ham are in 15th position, Brighton is a position above them. Statistic shows to us that both teams this season conceded more goals than score.

However, the last five matches show that both teams score at least one goal in almost every game. The last time when West Ham didn't score a goal was September 16. They didn't score against West Brom, who are always very strong in defense, especially when they playing at home.

Brighton also scored at least one goal in four games. They only didn’t score a goal against Arsenal but that was a match where Arsenal was a really good – they dominated all 90th minutes and won the game 2-0.

As I say, both teams aren’t brilliant in defense. Brighton conceded this season 10 goals and West Ham four more.

Interesting is that each of the last 3 matches that Brighton have played had under 2.5 goals. Also we can mentioning that West Ham have kept a clean sheet in 5 of their last 7 home matches but today we'll not see their very important player in defense – it‘s James Collins.

Welshman didn‘t play in the last three Premier league games and West Ham conceded four goals in this games. James Collins injury has affected team because in last two games, when he could still play, they doesn‘t conceded any goals.

Both teams are fairly close balanced but that will be a game where one of two teams will want to won because they can. I‘m not sure that both teams will be very concentrated on defense because three points is the most important thing.

Anyway, there‘s a lot of chance that the meeting will end in a draw. That shouldn‘t be a match where we‘ll see many goals but statistic shows that these two teams scores at least one goal in four of their last five matches.

Betting pick: Both teams will score at least one goal. (Bet365)