West Ham United vs Manchester City Prediction 12/20/2025 Today’s EPL Picks

In this article, we will formulate a West Ham United vs Manchester City Prediction for this English Premier League Week 17 matchup on Saturday, December 20th, at the Etihad Stadium. Let’s take a look at the prediction for this English Premier League matchup.

Manchester City Preview

Manchester City has 34 points this season, with an 11-4-1 record, and are sitting on the 2nd place in the Premier League standings. They have an 8-0-1 home record and a 3-4-0 away record. Manchester City is coming off a 3-0 win against Crystal Palace on the road, where they had 61% possession of the ball and 8 total shots, 6 of them on target. They had 86% completed passes, and more expected goals, with 1.19 compared to Crystal Palace’s 1.88.

Manchester City is scoring 2.38 goals per game, which ranks 2nd in the Premier League, while allowing 1.06 goals per game, which is 6th. Erling Haaland is Manchester City’s top scorer with 17 goals, followed by Phil Foden with seven goals and Rúben Dias, Tijani Reijnders and Joško Gvardiol with two goals apiece. Ryan Cherki is Manchester City’s top passer, with 6 assists.

West Ham United Preview

West Ham United has 13 points this season, with a 3-9-4 record, and are sitting on the 18th place in the Premier League standings. They have a 3-0-4 home record and a 0-9-0 away record. West Ham is coming off a 3-2 home defeat to Aston Villa, where they had 41% possession of the ball and 10 total shots, 3 of them on target. They had 84% completed passes, and more expected goals, with 1.02 compared to Aston Villa’s 0.67.

West Ham is scoring 1.25 goals per game, which ranks 18th in the Premier League, while allowing 2.19 goals per game, which is 18th. Jarrod Bowen is West Ham’s top scorer with 5 goals, followed by Callum Wilson with four goals and Lucas Paquetá with three goals. El Hadji Malick Diouf is West Ham’s top passer, with 3 assists.

Why Manchester City will win

·        Manchester City has won each of its last 10 EPL day matches against West Ham at Etihad Stadium.

·        Manchester City has won each of its last nine EPL home matches against West Ham.

·        Manchester City has won each of its last nine EPL matches against West Ham at Etihad Stadium.

·        The favorite has won each of West Ham’s last nine EPL matches at Etihad Stadium.

·        Manchester City has won 12 of its last 13 EPL home matches.

·        Manchester City has won each of its last six EPL matches against West Ham.

·        Manchester City has won 16 of its last 18 EPL matches against West Ham.

Total Points Facts

·        The ‘Over 2.5 Goals’ market has hit in each of West Ham’s last five EPL matches at Etihad Stadium.

·        The ‘Over 3.5 Goals’ market has hit in each of the last four EPL matches between Manchester City and West Ham.

·        The ‘Over 2.5 Goals’ market has hit in each of Manchester City’s last four EPL home matches.

·        The ‘Over 2.5 Goals’ market has hit in each of Manchester City’s last four EPL matches as a home favorite.

West Ham United vs Manchester City Prediction

Manchester City has won its last six meetings against West Ham and all of them have been by at last two goals. Over is 7-1 in their last 8 meetings.

In this West Ham United vs Manchester City Prediction, Manchester City is coming as -500 home favorites. Manchester City has been the far better team this season as they have almost three times as many points as West Ham, who has been atrocious on the road, having lost all of their nine road games so far. They are also the third-worst team both offensively and defensively and have been dominated by City in recent years, so I expect a comfortable win for the hosts today. Take Manchester City by -1.5 goals in this one.

Nikos Lagouretos's Pick: Manchester City -1.5