{"id":424435,"date":"2025-12-04T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424435\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:19:12","slug":"preview-manchester-united-set-sights-on-top-five-as-they-face-west-ham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424435\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW: Manchester United set sights on top five as they face West Ham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United host West Ham at Old Trafford in gameweek 14 of the Premier League on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils\u00a0are heading into the match on the back of a 2-1 win over Crystal Palace\u00a0but their form has still been inconsistent; draws with Nottingham Forest and Tottenham Hotspur, followed by an Old Trafford defeat at the hands of Everton, preceded that win.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The hosts\u00a0suffered\u00a0both a home and\u00a0an\u00a0away\u00a0defeat\u00a0against\u00a0the Hammers\u00a0in the Premier League last season.<\/p>\n<p>Last time the sides met at Old Trafford was\u00a0in May when it ended in a 2-0 win for West Ham.<\/p>\n<p>Ruben Amorim\u2019s men have\u00a0won two of their last five matches in the Premier League, with wins over Crystal Palace and Brighton.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United will be without Benjamin \u0160e\u0161ko and Harry Maguire due to injuries\u00a0and currently sit ninth in the Premier League table.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the visitors head to Old Trafford on the back of a 2-0\u00a0home\u00a0loss against Liverpool\u00a0at the\u00a0London Stadium, though they have won two of their last four games under the stewardship of Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>That fairly positive run came on the back of a winless six games which culminated in the sacking of then manager Graham Potter.<\/p>\n<p>Esp\u00edrito Santo\u2019s men\u00a0haven\u2019t\u00a0kept a clean sheet in their last 10 games, while the Red Devils have failed to secure a clean sheet in their last six matches.<\/p>\n<p>They will be without Oliver Scarles due to\u00a0injury and Crysencio\u00a0Summerville\u00a0is a doubt due to fitness.\u00a0Lucas Paquet\u00e1 will also be absent as he serves his suspension picked up in the defeat to Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>The match will be broadcast live on Sky Sports with the match kicking off at 20:00 GMT.<\/p>\n<p>Predicted line-ups<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United host West Ham at Old Trafford in gameweek 14 of the Premier League on Thursday evening.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":424436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[4807,197873,9438,18753,170403,215,3782,16869,100450,95650,197872,220,170404,221,62,11131,67,132,68,102978],"class_list":{"0":"post-424435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-brighton","9":"tag-crysencio-summerville","10":"tag-crystal-palace","11":"tag-everton","12":"tag-harry-maguire","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-manchester-united","15":"tag-nottingham-forest","16":"tag-nuno-espirito-santo","17":"tag-old-trafford","18":"tag-oliver-scarles","19":"tag-premier-league","20":"tag-red-devils","21":"tag-soccer","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-tottenham-hotspur","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-west-ham"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115662209869208380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}