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Freiburg v West Ham United Match Preview & Best Odds

Kick-off: 8pm UK Time, Thursday 7th March 2024

West Ham United got the better of SC Freiburg in each of their Group A battles and the Hammers will be confident of inflicting upon the German side a third defeat when the sides lock horns in the last-sixteen of the competition on Thursday evening.

Top seven

A little under a month on from conceding six against London rivals Arsenal, things are starting to look slightly better for West Ham United with David Moyes’ men revelling in back-to-back wins. Having failed to win any of their first six league games of 2024, the East London side followed up a 4-2 win over Brentford with an equally impressive 3-1 win away to Everton, these wins sending the side back into the top seven in the Premier League table where they sit just two points behind sixth-placed Manchester United.

European aspirations

This standing in itself would only reward the Hammers with qualification for the Europa Conference League but it’s fair to say that the Hammers’ European aspirations are much grander than that. David Moyes’ men have been excellent thus far in the Europa League with just three points dropped in the group campaign and no goals conceded in their last three European matches, while they are just 90 minutes away from beating the same opponents three times in a single European campaign for the first time in the club’s history.

Sent packing

SC Freiburg have never before made it past this stage of the competition – they were sent packing at the last sixteen phase by Juventus in 2022/23 – but they will be in confident mood having taken points off Bayern Munich in a 2-2 draw last time out. Nevertheless, Freiburg’s 3-2 extra-time victory over Lens in the last-32 of this tournament has been their only win in eight games across competitions and they have leaked at least two goals in their last five on home soil.

Fighting fire with fire

It remains to be seen whether the hosts have learned the lessons from their two group stage defeats to the Hammers but while the visitors have been looking fragile at the back of late, we envisage Moyes’ side fighting fire with fire and emerging victorious in what looks set to be a goal-laden affair.

Back West Ham to win and both teams to score at best odds of 9/2