West Ham v Manchester City: Confirmed line-ups as visitors aim to maintain pressure in title race

Manchester City will be aiming to keep up the pressure on Arsenal in the Premier League title race when they travel to West Ham on Saturday evening.

Pep Guardiola has claimed his side’s chances of catching the Gunners will be over if they do not take all three points at the London Stadium, making the game a must-win in the eyes of the City boss.

His comments come as City’s hopes of a quadruple took a rather significant set-back as they were held by Nottingham Forest in the league before falling to a 3-0 defeat to Real Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League last 16 in midweek.

Despite having an FA Cup quarter-final to look forward to, West Ham’s primary ambition this season will be to avoid relegation.

Following an upturn in fortunes under manager Nuno Espirito Santo, the Hammers – currently in 18th – are level on points with Forest in 17th and can move out of the drop zone with a win, although they have not beaten City in over a decade.

West Ham team news

West Ham XI: Hermansen, Wan-Bissaka, Mavropanos, Disasi, Todibo, Diouf, Soucek, Fernandes, Pablo, Bowen, Taty

Subs: Areola, Walker-Peters, Kilman, Wilson, Adama, Magassa, Potts, Kante, Mayers

Manchester City team news

Manchester City XI: Donnarumma, Nunes, Khusanov, Guehi, Ait-Nouri, Rodri, Bernardo, O’Reilly, Marmoush, Semenyo, Haaland

Subs: Trafford, Dias, Reijnders, Ake, Kovacic, Cherki, Doku, Nico, Foden

Where to watch West Ham v Manchester City: TV and online streams

West Ham v Manchester City kicks off at 8pm UK time. It will be broadcast on TNT Sports 1 and will be available to stream via Discovery+. Sky customers with a TNT Sports package can also stream the game via Sky Go.

Stats for West Ham v Manchester City

• West Ham are winless in 20 Premier League matches against City (D3 L17), since a 2-1 win in September 2015. It’s their longest ever winless league run against an opponent.
• Only against Fulham (a current run of 22) and Newcastle (22 between 2006 and 2018) have City had a longer unbeaten run in their league history.
• West Ham have never beaten Manchester City at the London Stadium in the Premier League in nine attempts (D2 L7) – they have only faced Brighton as often without winning there (D7 L2).
• City have lost just one of their last 17 Premier League games (W11 D5), going down 2-0 to Manchester United in January. However, the Citizens have dropped eight points from winning positions in that run thanks to draws with Chelsea, Brighton, Tottenham Hotspur and Nottingham Forest.
• Guardiola is unbeaten in all 19 of his Premier League games against West Ham (W17 D2), the most a manager has faced an opponent without ever losing in the competition. Meanwhile, the only manager to be unbeaten in their first 20 Premier League games against an opponent is Arsene Wenger against Leicester City (first 20 between 1997 and 2017).
• City’s Erling Haaland has scored more Premier League goals against West Ham than any other opponent (11). He’s netted at least twice in his last three against the Hammers – only Michael Owen against Newcastle (1998-2001) and Harry Kane against Everton (2017-2018) have scored 2+ goals in four consecutive Premier League games against an opponent.