VENUE: EMIRATES STADIUM
DATE:05/05/2017
TIME:2145HRS GMT+3
Arsenal's hope of finishing in the top four and playing Champions League football next season is slowly fading away; they have to win tonight to keep up the race for the top four which is tight.
This is after they struggled at the Emirates on Saturday and managed o secure a 2-2 draw with Manchester City.
The Gunners are still in a pretty torrid form though; they have won three lost six and drawn one in the past ten games in all competitions.
This has made calls for Wenger to resign as manager of the club increase in recent days.Pressure is also mounting upon Arsenal players to perform from their fans and equally the club.
Despite this, they are only seven points off the top four with a game in hand so therefore increasing their chances of playing Champions League football next season.
Arsenal is facing Westham who have lost four matches in a row and have never won since February thus placing them 14th in the table with only six points off the relegation zone.
Away from home, Westham has won three lost six and drawn three in their past 12 matches, with two of the victories coming from relegation threatened sides.
They have not kept a clean sheet in their past 12 away matches conceding 22 goals in total.
Arsenal is good in front of goal, so I don't expect them to disappoint, well, with Andy Caroll on board as a possible threat then we expect goals from both sides thus I'm backing both teams to score.
HEAD TO HEAD
Arsenal have won five drawn one and lost one in their past seven meetings with West Ham
TEAM NEWS
ARSENAL
Kieran Gibbs is a slight doubt , Petr Cech, Lucas Perez, and Santi Cazorla will not play.
WESTHAM
Aaron Cresswell is not a significant doubt, but Winston Reid, Michail Antonio, Pedro Obiang, Angelo Ogbonna, Diafra Sakho, and Gokhan Tore have limited chances
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PREDICTIONS
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE
ARSENAL TO WIN
RESULTS
ARSENAL 3-0 WESTHAM
HOME WIN TIP WON.
