West Ham United vs Everton Betting Preview, Tips & Odds | 25 April 2026

The Situation at the Bottom

West Ham are in a mess. Seventeenth in the Premier League with a goal difference of -17, Nuno Espírito Santo's side are staring down the barrel of the Championship with just a handful of games left to save their season. The London Stadium has been anything but a fortress: four wins, four draws, and eight defeats at home this campaign. That is not a set of numbers that inspires confidence when you need points desperately.

Their recent form tells a similar story. A 4-0 win over Wolves offered brief hope, but that was sandwiched between a 0-2 defeat at Aston Villa and a 0-0 at Crystal Palace that felt very much like a side running on empty. Jared Bowen remains the one genuine threat, eight goals and eight assists in 33 appearances this season, and without him West Ham barely look like a top-flight team. The injury list is not helping either: Callum Wilson, who has contributed five goals this season, and Crysencio Summerville, another five-goal contributor, are both missing this fixture. Tomas Soucek is out too. That is three of their most influential players absent in one go. Nuno has a threadbare squad walking into a match they cannot afford to lose.

Everton's Position and Form

David Moyes has Everton looking like a completely different proposition. Tenth in the table on 47 points, they have already done enough to confirm survival and are now playing with a relative freedom that West Ham simply do not have. Seven wins away from home this season shows real resilience on the road, and a goal difference sitting at +1 confirms this is a side that is at least solid if not spectacular.

The form is a bit mixed, mind. They got thumped 3-0 by Chelsea at Goodison before recovering to beat Burnley 2-0, then drew 2-2 at Brentford and lost 1-2 at home to Liverpool last time out. That Liverpool defeat stings, but switching focus to a side battling relegation away from home is a different kind of game entirely. Beto leads their line with eight goals this season, Kalvin Dewsbury-Hall has seven goals from midfield, and Iliman Ndiaye adds six more. There is genuine quality and variety in this attack, and they are travelling to face a depleted home side under enormous pressure.

The news around Beto and Jarrad Branthwaite's fitness has been circulating ahead of this one, though Moyes has given updates ahead of the trip to the London Stadium. The exact status of those players should be watched closely before kick-off, but even without full clarity, Everton have the depth to cope better than West Ham can with their absences.

Head-to-Head and the Betting Angle

These two sides have drawn three of their last five meetings. Both games in the current 2025/26 season ended 1-1 at Goodison back in September, and a West Ham win at Everton in what the records list as a Summer Series fixture makes up the spread. The most recent Premier League meeting at the London Stadium was a 0-0 back in November 2024. This fixture tends not to produce thrillers.

That said, context has shifted dramatically. West Ham have lost three key attacking players to injury, they are desperate at the bottom, and a side in tenth with nothing to fear is travelling with genuine quality in the forward areas. The pressure is entirely on one side of this fixture. When teams are this short-handed and this stressed, they have a habit of cracking.

Everton at 3.23 to win this match looks like the pick. West Ham missing Wilson, Summerville, and Soucek in one go is crippling for a side that was already lightweight. Moyes knows how to set his team up for away games, and Everton's seven away wins this season back that up. The draw is possible given the H2H history, but backing Everton to take advantage of a shorthanded, pressure-ridden West Ham at that price is where the value sits.