{"id":330335,"date":"2025-12-04T16:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330335\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:59:07","slug":"preview-manchester-united-set-sights-on-top-five-as-they-face-west-ham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330335\/","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":2,"featured_media":330336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[73444,92382,2640,25461,45706,3450,3788,2732,89833,31481,167601,1084,115695,403,99,4899,31480],"class_list":["post-330335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-brighton","tag-crysencio-summerville","tag-crystal-palace","tag-everton","tag-harry-maguire","tag-liverpool","tag-manchester-united","tag-nottingham-forest","tag-nuno-espirito-santo","tag-old-trafford","tag-oliver-scarles","tag-premier-league","tag-red-devils","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-west-ham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}