Leicester City vs West Ham Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Leicester won both Premier League meetings with West Ham last season, including a 4-1 victory in this exact fixture. They last won more consecutively against the Hammers in league competition between April 1965-December 1966 (5).
West Ham have won just one of their last 11 Premier League meetings with Leicester (D4 L6), winning 2-0 away in May 2018.
West Ham have won just four of their 23 away Premier League games under David Moyes (D5 L14), although one of those was a 2-0 win at Leicester in May 2018.
Leicester are looking to win their first four games to a league season for the first time in their history. Their haul of 12 goals so far is the most after three games of a Premier League season since 2011-12 (Man Utd 13, Man City 12).
London sides haven't won any of their last eight Premier League visits to Leicester (D2 L6), with Crystal Palace the last side to beat the Foxes away in the competition (4-1 in February 2019).
West Ham have won just one of their last 11 Premier League away games (D2 L8), winning 4-0 at Norwich in July. West Ham have kept just three clean sheets so far in the Premier League in 2020, fewer than any other side to have played in both campaigns.
All three of the Hammers' shutouts have been in 4-0 wins (vs Bournemouth, Norwich and Wolves).
Leicester have already scored five penalty goals in the Premier League this season, as many as they had in each of the 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 campaigns.
They last netted more from the spot in their title-winning 2015-16 season (10). Ayoze Perez was directly involved in four of Leicester's six Premier League goals against West Ham last season, assisting both goals in their 2-1 win at the London Stadium and scoring twice in their 4-1 home win against them.
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No player has scored more Premier League goals this season than Leicester's Jamie Vardy (5). However, last season's golden boot winner has scored in just two of his last 12 home games in the competition (4 goals in total).
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