Norwich in no place to break West Ham’s clean sheet streak
Published:Remember when West Ham were an absolute shambles a few games ago? When teams as high as Manchester City and as low Nottingham Forest were peppering their net like it was a coconut at a shy?
It seems like ancient history now, thanks to three consecutive clean sheets and a run of just one defeat in their last five Premier League games which has teleported the Hammers from the crisis zone of 19th to the seeming serenity of 15th.
Providing other results go their way, a win over visiting Norwich could continue West Ham’s upward trajectory into the nose-bleed territory of 10th. Should that happen, then the 7/1 we highlighted about Sam Allardyce securing a top-half finish may not be around much longer.
Neither team has been the definition of consistent this term though, with West Ham’s last two games providing the only consecutive Premier League victories for either club this season, so dealing with the match betting market is barbed.
Instead, there is another way to make money off of West Ham’s improved play, via the clean sheet market.
As already pinpointed, West Ham are on a three-game run of shutting out the opposition and are 8/5-shots to make it a fourth in a row when the Canaries visit east London.
That is a staggering price considering their recent hankering for battening down the hatches, which has come against Chelsea, Swansea and Aston Villa, and their latest goal-shy opposition.
All three of West Ham’s previously frustrated opponents are far more flowing in the goal stakes than Norwich, who are the division’s joint-second lowest scorers.
The Canaries have scored just three top-flight goals in the last seven games, giving the in-form Hammers backline little to worry about at the Boleyn.
All Odds and Markets are correct as of the date of publishing.
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