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 Pictures)
West Ham face Southampton on Boxing Day in an important match for each side, and Jamie Carragher’s prediction could effectively find yourself angering Hammers followers.
Ivan Juric will take cost of the Saints and hope to upset the percentages, 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 hassle. Beginning with three factors in opposition to the East London outfit.
Sky Sports activities TV Presenter Jamie Carragher reacts with Gary Neville, previous to the Premier League match between Aston Villa and Sheffield United. (Photograph by Catherine Ivill/Getty Pictures)
It was reported earlier within the month that Lopetegui had one sport to save lots of his West Ham profession and Jamie Carragher has already named the proper alternative for the Spaniard.
It’s Carra’s prediction for the massive Boxing Day conflict that’s more likely to get proper up the East Londoner’s noses, nevertheless.
In response to 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 method if Jamie Carragher is proved proper
Had been that exact state of affairs come to move, there’s completely little question in any way that Lopetegui will discover it arduous 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 must pay a compensation package deal to the Spaniard in the event that they relieve him of his duties, and that’s more likely to be the one factor maintaining Lopetegui in his place at current.
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The Hammers are on a poor run of type which has seen them win simply three of the final 10 video games, one in every of which was in opposition to struggling Wolverhampton Wanderers.
If they’ll’t beat a workforce that’s on six factors and are by far the worst workforce within the English top-flight, there’s no defending that.