To Hull and Back With The Points

It’s hard to escape the feeling that West Ham may prefer to play away from Upton Park given that their demanding home crowd can be hard to cope with. This theory is supported by results so far in 2013-14; three games without a win at the Boleyn, but an impressive 3-1 victory at Palace in their only away game so far.

Tonight Sam Allardyce’s troops head to the KC Stadium to face a Hull City side who look flattered by their four point return so far. In reality, the Tigers sit in the bottom three for both shots attempted per game (9.7) and shots conceded per game (16.3). In contrast, West Ham average 13 attempts per game themselves while conceding only 12.3 at the other end.

In other words, the Londoners are having marginally the better of their games while Steve Bruce’s boys have been generally outplayed yet somehow emerged with a win and a draw.

These statistics tend to give good indications of how teams are really playing and suggest we should back the away win here at best odds of 3/1 with Bet365.