Lincoln vs West Ham Prediction & Betting Tips

Form: two very different pictures

West Ham's last eight Championship matches read four wins, three draws and just one defeat. They've put six past Wrexham, four past Wolves and three past Derby, with the only loss coming against Charlton. That's 22 goals scored in eight games, a healthy return for this level.

Lincoln: 20 completed matches; West Ham: 20 completed matches.

Lincoln

20 matches

Win

50% 10 / 20

Draw

10% 2 / 20

Loss

40% 8 / 20

Scored

25

Conceded

29

Difference

-4

West Ham

20 matches

Win

45% 9 / 20

Draw

30% 6 / 20

Loss

25% 5 / 20

Scored

44

Conceded

26

Difference

+18

Lincoln's form is more mixed: three wins, two draws and three losses in the same period. They've beaten Bolton, Preston and Bristol City, but they've also lost at home to Portsmouth and Swansea. Just seven goals scored across those eight matches tells its own story.

West Ham's goal output has been well ahead of Lincoln's this season.

Comparative Team Statistics: Lincoln vs West Ham

Not much history to go on

These two have only met once in the data available, a League Cup tie back in 2023 which West Ham won 1-0 away at Lincoln. That's a single cup game from a few seasons back, so it doesn't tell us a great deal about how this Championship meeting might unfold.

Where they sit in the table

West Ham are up in second place with 15 points from eight games, while Lincoln sit down in 12th on 11 points from the same number of matches. The points gap isn't huge, just four points, but the underlying numbers are more telling: West Ham have a goal difference of plus eleven compared with Lincoln's minus one.

The table suggests a bigger gap in quality than the points alone show.

Goals spread around for West Ham

West Ham's scoring has come from more than one source. Kostas Mavropanos has four goals in seven appearances, Jarrod Bowen has four in eight and also leads their assists with three, and Kanté has chipped in with three goals too. Solomon and Castellanos have two assists each, so the creative side of things isn't resting on one player.

Lincoln:

Penalty cards:

F. Draper x 4

C. McGrandles x 3

West Ham:

Best scorers:

K. Mavropanos - 4

J. Bowen - 4

M. Kanté - 3

Best assist providers:

J. Bowen - 3

M. Solomon - 2

V. Castellanos - 2

Penalty cards:

M. Kanté x 1 x 1

On the discipline front, Lincoln's Freddie Draper and Callum McGrandles have picked up four and three yellow cards respectively in eight games, while West Ham's Kanté has a yellow and a red in the same span. None of this points to confirmed absences, it's simply a look at who's been busy on the pitch.

How this one might play out

Lincoln have conceded eight goals in their last eight games, not a disastrous return, but they've clearly struggled to score at the other end. West Ham, by contrast, have shown they can put teams away once they get going, as those big wins over Wrexham and Wolves demonstrate. If that pattern holds, Lincoln will need a tidy defensive display given how little they've managed going forward lately.