{"id":602830,"date":"2025-11-30T06:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/602830\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T06:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:40:13","slug":"the-opposition-lowdown-west-ham-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/602830\/","title":{"rendered":"The opposition lowdown: West Ham United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Season so far<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following a tricky start to the campaign that saw West Ham sit in the relegation zone, they are now unbeaten in their last three Premier League outings.<\/p>\n<p>The Hammers switched managers and appointed Nuno in late September, and his arrival has seen an uptick in form in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>They defeated Newcastle United and Burnley at London Stadium ahead of earning a 2-2 draw away at AFC Bournemouth last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, they entered the weekend sitting 17th in the standings, outside the bottom three on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key players<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the Premier League, Callum Wilson is West Ham&#8217;s top scorer having netted on four occasions this season.<\/p>\n<p>Jarrod Bowen also has three goals and one assist to his name, while Lucas Paqueta has struck on three occasions also.<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder Tomas Soucek has scored twice for the Hammers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Season so far Following a tricky start to the campaign that saw West Ham sit in the relegation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,12,1144,1042,1047,712,1043,16,15,1048,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-602830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-firmino","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool-fc","20":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","22":"tag-liverpool-football-club","23":"tag-mane","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-northern-ireland","26":"tag-reds","27":"tag-salah","28":"tag-scotland","29":"tag-the-reds","30":"tag-uk","31":"tag-united-kingdom","32":"tag-van-dijk","33":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115637284248112468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}