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Wigan Athletic return home looking to bounce back from a loss on the road when they face-off against West Ham United in Premier League week 28. The Hammers were also in action over the weekend but in their case they held serve at home.

The home side Wigan Athletic dropped the 3 points by a score of 2-1 to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. That was the second of two successive away days for the Latics and they were only able to bring home 1 point out of 6 from their trip. The side managed by Steve Bruce have now dropped to 8th place in th

e Premier League with 35 points. On the injury front, Wigan Athetlic will be without De Ridder as Valencia remains doubtful.

West Ham United scored a huge win at home over the weekend when they brushed aside Manchester City by a score of 1-0 at the Boleyn Ground. It was a nice way for the side managed by Gianfranco Zola to bounce back from a loss away to Bolton Wanderers last week by a score of 2-1 at Reebok Stadium. Thanks to their victory West Ham United were able to leap-frog over this week’s opponent- Wigan Athetlic- into 7th place of the Premier League table with 36 points.

Wigan Athletic v West Ham United
JJB Stadium, kick off 1945 hours

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COYI PREDICTION REPORT:
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Wigan - West Ham :  0 - 1

Probabilities for Home-Draw-Away: 33% 36% 31% .

Asian Handicap Advice:
With an asian handicap of:  0 : 0 ,
PICK :      WEST HAM

But West Ham was  a little  better in their last match
( 11.3 % higher than Wigan ).
They have a higher average in last 3 matches: 4 %

Critical handicap: 0.25

Confidence: Low.

Valuebets for
Wigan: odds higher then  3.06
West Ham:  odds higher then 3.26

Over/Under:  UNDER (0.44)

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Team-Performance in last 3 matches :
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Team      Last :      2 ago :       3  ago :

Wigan~     98 %      95 %      99 %
West ~     110 %      90  %      104 %
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Team-Standings in the Premier League:
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Team      Pld      Won      Draw       Lose      Pts

Wigan~      27       9       8       10     35
West ~      27       10       6       11      36
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Kaka - AC Milan to Manchester City - Discussions to continue on Monday. Kaka is expected to play for Milan against Fiorentina at the San Siro tonight

Shay Given - Newcastle United to Manchester City - £8m bid submitted

Wilson Palacios - Wigan Athletic to Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City, Manchester United and Arsenal - Spurs and City have made bids

Craig Bellamy - West Ham United to Tottenham Hotspur, Man City - Player is reported to have demanded talks with both clubs about a move.

Nigel de Jong - Hamburg to Manchester City - £13m bid on the table, move could depend on Palacios joining City or not

Javier Saviola - Real Madrid to Portsmouth - Talks ongoing

Robbie Fowler - Unattached to North Queensland Fury - Talks ongoing

According to Wigan manager Steve Bruce, Tottenham and Wigan have all but agreed a fee for Wilson Palacios, and a £14m deal should be done soon. (Daily Mail)

Analysis: Don’t count out Manchester United making a late move for him, but they may well just sit on their hands here.

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TRANSFER RUMOURS

Marco Materazzi - Inter Milan to Manchester City

Juan Pablo Sorin - Cruzeiro to Newcastle United - Loan

Kieran Agard - Everton to Partick Thistle - Loan

Edmilson - Villareal to Portsmouth - Loan

Daniele De Rossi - Roma to Manchester City

John Terry - Chelsea to Manchester City

Jonjo Shelvey - Charlton Athletic to Middlesbrough - £2m

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It is reported that Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson is looking in the region of £230-£250m for West Ham in the coming months, a slightly exaggerated price considering the club initially cost him somewhere in the region of £100m inc Eggy’s shares.

So what would happen if we sold Craig Bellamy and Mathew Upson? disaster thats what would happen, BG has to take into consideration that the sale of these 2 players could mean relegation problems which could result in losing around £40m in TV rights as a premiership club, and also the clubs for sale banner would drop to a bargain basement price of around £60m, partly because the few good players we do have will jump ship as they have done in the past.

Bellamy is considered to be worth around £7m and Upson i would guess around the same price, so even if it is true and we are a financially struggling club it would be suicide to sell these players, it is these players that are just keeping our heads above water at the moment.

BG, Nani and Duxbury have to keep these players at all costs, we still need 23+ points to believe we are safe from relegation, lets not make the mistake that Portsmouth are making by selling Diarra and what Wigan will be making if they sell Heskey.

Its better to be safe then sorry.

ALL FIGURES ARE ESTIMATED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES AND ARE NOT THOSE STATED BY WHUFC

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I was very pleased with yesterdays results, Lets be honest could it have been a better day, We Won, Spurs Lost, that’s what i call an ideal day of football. Ours was not the best of games but we saw some nice work from Faubert, and Ashton scoring 2 beauties.

Curbishley is again hitting the headlines to be the 1st manager sacked is getting very boring now, and to add a cherry to the cake, the red tops have come up with an absolute rubbish story that Redknapp would be next in line to manage West Ham if and when Curbs does go.

I cant say i would be over the moon to have harry back, we need to go forward not back 7 years, Curbs still deserves some time to play with a fit squad, when that will be is a mystery, with Ashton limping off late in the game on Saturday which we only hope is cramp.

We need to see if Curbs can get us off to a good start with the 1st 8 games and then judge him on that, Redknapp has waited 7 years, i am sure he could wait another year, thats if we really want him?

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Alan Curbishley will be feeling the presure today as the West Ham start their season opener against Wigan

Curbishley and Manchester City’s Mark Hughes are the favourites in the Premier League sack-race, with Curbishley’s position coming under scrutiny amid financial uncertainty at Upton Park.

The Hammers’ board expected more than a 10th-placed finish last season after Curbishley splashed out £22.5million on Craig Bellamy, Kieron Dyer, Julien Faubert and Freddie Ljungberg last summer.

But captain Lucas Neill has urged for patience from the West Ham board given the injury woes that hampered their hopes of a European push last term.

“I think he’s been a victim of a board that’s come in, given him a lot of money and wanted success immediately,” said Neill.

“Time stood still for us for a year because everyone we tried to bring in, in terms of knowledge and experience, was injured. That’s not his fault.

“I think he’s got to be judged on what happens from now. You can’t just buy success in one season, it takes time.

“Somebody’s got to be the favourite to get the sack first and unfortunately it’s him because of the demand at West Ham for success.

“But the odds on him going will soon change if we stick two or three quick wins together.

“There’s a determination to go where we wanted to go last season before it went wrong,” he added.

“You want your biggest weapons out there because you know at any stage of the game Kieron Dyer or Craig Bellamy’s pace could get you a goal.

“I think there’s been less activity in the market this summer because we’re yet to see our transfers from last year play their part.

“Having them back, alongside Dean Ashton and Scott Parker, will be like new signings.”

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