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

Lincoln City play big to West Ham United connected Wednesday night, with some teams looking to extremity two-game streaks without a victory.

At a clip erstwhile the Imps beryllium successful 15th presumption successful the Championship table, the Hammers are successful 3rd place.

Match preview

When West Ham recorded a 6-0 triumph implicit Wrexham connected September 11, it felt arsenic though Nuno Espirito Santo's broadside would spell connected to widen what was past a four-match winning streak.

Instead, West Ham person faced 3 London clubs crossed each competitions and failed to flooded immoderate of them.

A 3-2 decision to Fulham successful the EFL Cup 3rd circular was followed by the Hammers needing to conflict backmost from 2-0 down to gain a stock of the spoils astatine East London rivals Millwall.

Another comeback would travel successful their archetypal fixture aft the planetary break, West Ham securing a 1-1 gully astatine location to Queens Park Rangers, yet squandering the accidental for 3 points done a precocious punishment miss from Jarrod Bowen.

On a affirmative note, West Ham stay with conscionable 1 decision from 9 Championship fixtures, clasp the champion attacking grounds successful the part (23 goals) and commencement the latest batch of fixtures 4 points down leaders Swansea City.

As acold arsenic Lincoln are concerned, they volition beryllium delighted to beryllium sitting successful 15th spot aft 9 games of their archetypal play successful the 2nd tier for much than 60 years.

Collecting 11 points from 9 matches and signaling distant wins astatine the likes of Preston North End and Bristol City represents a beardown commencement for Chris Cohen and Tom Shaw.

However, a 2-1 decision astatine location to leaders Swansea earlier the planetary interruption was followed by a 3-0 reverse astatine Sheffield United connected Saturday.

For the 2nd clip this season, Lincoln person posted back-to-back defeats successful the Championship, and they tin ill-afford to bash that connected a regular ground if they privation to debar a relegation battle.

Ahead of the archetypal league crippled betwixt these 2 clubs since 1957, the Imps beryllium 4 points supra the bottommost three.

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Team News

Lincoln are apt to marque a fig of changes to their starting lineup, with Yunus Konak, Chiedozie Ogbene and Mikkel Ladefoged each options to travel into midfield and the last third.

Conor McGrandles, Ben House and Freddie Draper whitethorn each driblet retired of the broadside if those players are handed opportunities.

Reece Hackett whitethorn travel backmost into contention aft concussion, portion it remains to beryllium seen whether Romania planetary Andrei Coubis could instrumentality to the squad.

Mohamadou Kante is disposable for West Ham aft serving a one-match ban, but the midfielder whitethorn person to judge a spot connected the substitutes' bench.

Tomas Soucek volition beryllium assessed aft making his instrumentality from a semipermanent wounded connected Friday. Joel Piroe could beryllium recalled if the Czech Republic midfielder is lone named connected the substitutes' bench.

Joel Veltman is besides an enactment to instrumentality aft recovering from wounded implicit the planetary break.

Lincoln City imaginable starting lineup:

Wickens; Bradley, Elerewe, Towler; Jefferies, Konak, Bayliss, Reach; Ogbene, Street; Ladefoged

West Ham United imaginable starting lineup:

Hermansen; Veltman, Mavropanos, Kilman, Morato; Mukasa, Engels; Bowen, Piroe, Solomon; Castellanos

We say: Lincoln City 1-3 West Ham United

Although West Ham are without a triumph successful 3 games crossed each competitions, they person fought backmost to gain draws successful 2 of those matches. With that successful mind, we consciousness that the Hammers' superior prime successful onslaught volition beryllium to beryllium the quality successful the 2nd half, subsequently earning them an important 3 points.

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