Sky Sports activities pundit Jamie Carragher appears to be like on previous to the Premier League match between Everton and Bournemouth. (Photograph by Naomi Baker/Getty Photographs)
West Ham face Southampton on Boxing Day in a vital match for either side, and Jamie Carragher’s prediction might nicely find yourself angering Hammers followers.
Ivan Juric will take cost of the Saints and hope to upset the chances, piling extra stress on West Ham‘s under-fire supervisor, Julen Lopetegui.
Jamie Carragher says Southampton will beat West Ham
The Hammers discover themselves thirteenth within the Premier League which isn’t fairly as perilous as Southampton’s twentieth place, and being eight factors from safely already will focus Juric’s thoughts as to what’s required to get them out of bother. Beginning with three factors towards the East London outfit.
It was reported earlier within the month that Lopetegui had one recreation to save lots of his West Ham profession and Jamie Carragher has already named the right substitute for the Spaniard.
It’s Carra’s prediction for the large Boxing Day conflict that’s more likely to get proper up the East Londoner’s noses, nonetheless.
In accordance with his predictions on Sky Sports activities Tremendous Six, the previous Liverpool stalwart believes that Southampton will win solely their second match of the season by a rating of 2-1.
Lopetegui on his approach if Jamie Carragher is proved proper
Have been that exact situation come to move, there’s completely little doubt in any way that Lopetegui will discover it exhausting to stay in his place past the flip of the 12 months.
It’s believed that West Ham chairman, David Sullivan, isn’t eager to should pay a compensation bundle to the Spaniard in the event that they relieve him of his duties, and that’s more likely to be the one factor holding Lopetegui in his place at current.
The Hammers are on a poor run of type which has seen them win simply three of the final 10 video games, considered one of which was towards struggling Wolverhampton Wanderers.
If they’ll’t beat a group that’s on six factors and are by far the worst group within the English top-flight, there’s no defending that.
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