All three football pundits agree this weekend believing that West Ham will beat Crystal Palace this Saturday afternoon to rise to a 53 point total and potentially leap frog above Manchester City into fourth place for a chance of Champions league football.
BBC pundit Mark Lawrenson
“Crystal Palace’s long wait for a league win this year continues and, while it does, they are getting dragged closer to the relegation scrap that is happening below them.
They will win somewhere – even Aston Villa have won away from home once this season – but I don’t see it happening this weekend, because West Ham have been so good at Upton Park.
After losing their first two home Premier League games of the season, the Hammers have been unbeaten there since August. I am backing them to make it four home league wins in a row on Saturday.”
Lawro’s prediction: 2-1
Lawro’s guest predictor was Jim Glennies of indie band : I thought West Ham would crumble but it is not going to happen now. They deserve to be up there and I think they might knock Manchester City out of one of the Champions League spots. 2-0
Sky Sports Pundit Paul Merson
“West Ham are flying at the moment and Palace are on a slippery slope. I think the Hammers will win and move above Man City in the table.
Former Manchester United and Liverpool striker Michael Owen has also given his predictions on Betvictor.com agreeing that West Ham will win against Crystal Palace this weekend.
“A Wembley semi-final on the horizon but the Eagles are the only side in the top four tiers of English football without a win in their respective division in 2016,” Owen wrote on Betvictor.com. “They remain a talented unit, however, and are a match for anyone on their day.
“The last three PL games between the sides has finished in a 3-1 win to the away side but I expect the Irons to maintain their challenge for a Champions League spot with a home win.”
“Michael’s recommendation: West Ham to win at Evens.”
OWEN PREDICTS: WEST HAM WIN
Well said Bubs. ****s have been tipping us to slip up all year. Coming down with the decs and all the other platitudes. Now they realise were the real deal.they all want to get on the bandwagon. Total ****ers. Keyes, what a ****ing ****er you are. How you get paid for talking about our great game Iwill never know. yuo’ve never played at a decent level so how can you criticise anyone just because you know BFS. If that’s your claim to fame you are dfinitely a sad specimen. One word comes to mind, contains 4 letters and starts with C.
Go away not interested,
Don’t try and get on the bandwagon now you bunch of loosers
No one takes any notice of what they think anyway so why should we take an interest now when they change horses.