Story by Gus Morse on 2012-02-11 00:58:49
PETERBOROUGH, UK - Peterborough United (18th) host table toppers West Ham United (1st) as they look to end a run of 7 games without a win in all competitions. West Ham are favourites for the game, priced at 11/10 (bet £10 to make £11 profit) with William Hill. A draw is best priced at 13/5 with BetVictor and Peterborough can be backed at best odds of 13/5 with Betfred.
Posh went 1-0 down to a controversial penalty when they came up against West Ham at Upton Park earlier in the season and the Posh will be hoping they can get their revenge this Saturday.
The Hammers have had an excellent campaign to date and boss Sam Allardyce will be hoping to steer the club back into the Premier League at the first attempt. Posh go into the clash on the back of a creditable 1-1 draw with Burnley at Turf Moor last weekend.
In the total goals market, over 2.5 goals is priced at 10/11 with Coral and under 2.5 goals is priced at Evens with bet365. For yet another season London Road has seen a glut of goals with 71.4% of Peterborough's home games have involved over 2.5 goals.
Posh will be without David Hibbert and Joe Day due to injuries, but have a clean bill of health otherwise in the squad. West Ham are without the suspended Kevin Nolan so highly-rated new signing from Manchester United Ravel Morrison is on standby to make his debut for the club.
West Ham top scorer Carlton Cole is the bookies favourite to open the scoring, priced at 11/2 with Stan James. In the same market, Sam Baldock is priced at 6/1 with bet365, John Carew is priced at 7/1 with Betfred and Posh striker Lee Tomlin is best priced at 8/1 with totesport to open the scoring in today's game.
West Ham hold a 100% record against Peterborough, having won all three of their previous meetings. The Hammers did the double in the 1992/93 second tier campaign, and won the reverse of this fixture 1-0 in September.
In the correct score market, a 1-1 draw is priced at 6/1 with Skybet, a repeat of West Ham's 1-0 win from earlier in the season is priced at 7/1 with BetVictor and a 2-0 win for the Hammers is priced at 10/1 with Coral. A goalless draw is priced at 12/1 with Skybet and a 1-0 win for Darren Ferguson's Posh is quoted at top odds of 10/1 with Paddy Power.
The game is scheduled to kick-off at 15:00 GMT.
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