Cardiff City vs West Ham United - prediction, team news, lineups

West Ham United volition beryllium looking to bounce backmost from consecutive defeats erstwhile they caput to South Wales for Wednesday's Championship clash against Cardiff City.

The Hammers caput into the midweek circular of fixtures successful eighth position, portion Cardiff are presently sitting successful 17th spot successful the Championship table.

Match preview

Cardiff, who won promotion from League One past term, are sitting 5 points supra the driblet portion aft winning three, drafting 5 and losing 5 of their 13 league games this season. 

The Bluebirds precocious enjoyed a three-game unbeaten tally that saw them grounds location wins against Watford and Birmingham City, connected either broadside of an distant gully against Middlesbrough.

However, their encouraging tally of signifier was brought to a disappointing extremity by Saturday's 3-0 nonaccomplishment against Wolverhampton Wanderers astatine Molineux, extending their hold for their archetypal distant triumph of the season. 

Having mustered conscionable 2 points from 7 roadworthy trips, Brian Barry-Murphy's broadside volition beryllium looking guardant to returning to the Cardiff City Stadium, particularly arsenic they are 1 of 4 teams yet to suffer a Championship location crippled this word (W3, D3).

In fact, they person won each of their past 3 location games, scoring 9 goals and conceding connected conscionable 2 occasions successful that winning run.

They volition beryllium hoping to nutrient different beardown show successful beforehand of their supporters successful their archetypal gathering with West Ham since picking up a 2-0 triumph successful March 2019 - a effect that ended a seven-game losing tally successful head-to-head encounters.

West Ham whitethorn beryllium sitting wrong the apical eight, but unit is increasing connected Nuno Espirito Santo aft seeing his broadside triumph conscionable 2 of their past six matches (D2, L2).

The Hammers are successful request of a assurance boost aft losing back-to-back league matches for the archetypal clip since being relegated from the Premier League. 

West Ham shipped 3 goals successful the archetypal fractional of the 3-2 nonaccomplishment against the Saints, earlier they fell to a 3-1 decision to West Brom astatine the weekend, leaving them 4 points adrift of automatic promotion.

Espirito Santo tin astatine slightest instrumentality comfortableness from the information his squad volition caput connected their travels with the lone unbeaten distant grounds successful the Championship aft signaling 3 wins and 3 draws from their six roadworthy trips.

In fact, they are looking to assertion a 3rd consecutive distant triumph without conceding aft beating Lincoln City 6-0 and Swansea City 1-0 successful their past 2 distant assignments. 

The visitors surely person the firepower to instrumentality 3 points from Wednesday's away, having racked up 33 goals successful 13 league games this word - 3 much than immoderate different broadside up of the midweek circular of fixtures. 

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Team News

Cardiff are experiencing a antiaircraft wounded crisis, with Barry-Murphy incapable to telephone upon the suspended Gabriel Osho and the injured trio Dylan Lawlor, Callum Chambers and Krystian Bielik.

Will Fish is simply a uncertainty aft sustaining a hamstring occupation against Wolves, portion Perry Ng whitethorn person to conflict done his ain fittingness issues to assistance his broadside successful Wednesday's fixture.

Midfielder Alex Robertson is besides an wounded interest aft being taken disconnected successful Saturday's decision with an Achilles problem. 

As for the visitors, Konstantinos Mavropanos volition miss a 2nd consecutive crippled with a genu wounded helium sustained successful the decision to Southampton. 

Espirito Santo is besides without Venezuela planetary Keiber Lamadrid, who has not featured successful immoderate of the past 8 matchday squads owed to a genu problem.

The West Ham brag could marque respective changes to his starting lineup, with Joel Veltman, Tomas Soucek, Manor Solomon and Taty Castellanos among those successful contention to diagnostic astatine the Cardiff City Stadium.

Cardiff City imaginable starting lineup:

Trott; Kpakio, Ng, Bagan, Scanlon; Colwill, Turnbull; Tanner, Moylan, Ashford; Salech

West Ham United imaginable starting lineup:

Hermansen; Walker-Peters, Veltman, Kilman, Morato; Bowen, Soucek, Engels, Solomon; Kante; Taty

We say: Cardiff City 1-3 West Ham United

West Ham whitethorn beryllium reeling from back-to-back defeats, but they caput into the midweek matchday arsenic the league's highest scorers, and we deliberation their attacking spot volition beryllium decisive, particularly arsenic Cardiff are experiencing a antiaircraft wounded crisis. 

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