We all know that those professionals have a great fitness preparation in pre-season and during the season, and even great technology allows the players to regenerate faster than ever before, but every coach has to change his first-teamers and replace them with bench players at some point. Not every team on a high level have a good bench to cover those regular important players.

Back at the start of 2022, I was talking about West Ham and what is coming for them. Drop on the standings, as expected, happened. West Ham were 4th placed for some period but now they are 6th in Premier League. David Moyes and his side were been active during the midweek in Europa League where they visited Sevilla and lost 0-1. Now, 3 days later they welcome one of the teams in the best form in England 1, Aston Villa with Steven Gerrard. Starting forward Bowen is out injured and it's a big blow as he is the most in-form player of hosts. Angelo Ogbonna and Vladimir Coufal, regular defenders are still sidelined.

Gerrard is doing a great job in Aston Villa since he arrived on a bench on November 11 back in 2021. Since then, his team didn't lose by any team with more than 1 goal difference except vs Chelsea (1-3). Most recently, the Villans seem to found a golden touch inside the squad and are looking super good in the last 3 games, winning over Brighton 2-0, Southampton 4-0, and Leeds 3-0 in the previous match. As visitors have a poor record against West Ham and have no win in their last mutual games, today is the ideal chance to change the tradition. No squad worries for visitors, Gerrard has a clean bill of health so this is surely encouraging. Surely, Villa have no big chances looking from this perspective to end amongst the top6, but if they win today, they will come close to 6 points to West Ham with game less.

Villa is the only team in the whole league without a draw in Premier League this season. Is the time for a draw today? Think that both sides would be ok with sharing points even if WH had greater ambitions. Villa on the other side is rested and hungry for goals. I'm sure X2 looks very sweet in a pre-match perspective considering the fatigue of hosts and their downgrade in form, all this while visitors build great momentum recently and are looking brave, without fear in their matches. Can Villa confirm a good form today with avoiding loss in London? I trust them. Predicting a 1-1 result today.

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我们都知道那些职业球员在季前赛和赛季中都做了很好的健康准备，甚至伟大的技术也能让球员比以往更快地恢复，但每个教练都不得不在某些时候更换他的一线队和替补队员。不是每一支高水平的球队都有一个好的板凳来掩护那些常规的重要球员。

早在2022年初，我就在谈论西汉姆联队和他们的未来。排名下降，正如预期的那样，发生了。西汉姆曾经有一段时间排在第四，但现在他们在英超排名第六。大卫莫耶斯和他的球队在周中对阵塞维利亚的欧联杯比赛中表现活跃，他们0:1输掉了比赛。现在，三天之后，他们迎来了英格兰联赛中状态最好的球队之一，拥有史蒂文·杰拉德的阿斯顿维拉。首发前锋鲍恩因伤缺阵，这对他来说是一个巨大的打击，因为他是东道主中状态最好的球员。安吉洛·奥格bonna和弗拉基米尔·库法尔，常规后卫仍然在边线上。

自从2021年11月11日杰拉德在阿斯顿维拉坐上替补席以来，他做得很好。从那以后，除了与切尔西(1-3)的比赛外，他的球队没有输过任何一个超过1个净胜球的球队。最近，维拉队似乎在球队内部找到了一种黄金接触，并且在最近的三场比赛中看起来超级棒，在前一场比赛中以2-0战胜了布莱顿，4-0战胜了南安普顿，3-0战胜了利兹联。由于客队在对阵西汉姆联的比赛中战绩不佳，而且在上一场比赛中没有取胜，今天是改变传统的理想机会。没有球队为客队担心，杰拉德的健康状况良好，这无疑是令人鼓舞的。当然，从这个角度来看，维拉没有很大的机会进入前六名，但如果他们今天赢了，他们将在少比赛的情况下接近6分。

维拉是本赛季英超联赛中唯一一支没有平局的球队。今天是抽签的时候了吗?想想看，即使WH有更大的野心，双方也会同意分享积分。另一边的维拉休息充足，渴望进球。我敢肯定X2在赛前看起来很可爱，考虑到东道主的疲劳和他们状态的下降，而所有这一切，而游客最近建立了巨大的势头，在他们的比赛中看起来很勇敢，没有恐惧。维拉今天能在避免伦敦失利的情况下保持良好的状态吗?我信任他们。预计今天会有1比1的结果。