West Ham v Aston Villa
Tuesday, 19:45
Live on BT Sport 1

West Ham
West Ham have lost only one of their last 12 games in all competitions, but following the weekend draw with Liverpool it's now seven draws since the end of November and five of their last eight Premier League matches at Upton Park have ended level.
It all amounts to the Hammers being just six points off the top four, and only one behind Manchester United in fifth place. Slaven Bilic's men have become an extremely difficult side to beat, and with the quality of Enner Valencia and Dimitri Payet in the XI they always possess a potent attacking threat.
Emmanuel Emenike has been brought in to the club on loan in the past few days. Bilic and Emenike worked together at Besiktas and the Nigerian will give the Hammers another dimension up front.
At the other end of the pitch Bilic will make a late call on who starts in goal after Adrian missed the weekend game due to the birth of his first child back in Seville.

Aston Villa
Saturday's 4-0 FA Cup defeat to Manchester City was probably not a bad result for Villa. They can now fully concentrate on what would be one of the greatest Great Escapes of recent times.
The Villans went into the game against City unbeaten in five - although two of those were against League Two Wycombe - and having picked up five points from their last three Premier League games.
Remi Garde's men still remain a distant 10 points adrift of safety, but there is now a glimmer of hope where just a month ago there was none. The next five days could be definitive though, with the Villans hosting Norwich at Villa Park on Saturday.
But despite recent results going in their favour, not a great deal has changed at Villa. They still struggle to score goals - two in their last three league matches, one of which was an own goal - and any attempts to foray into the January transfer market have failed to deliver any acquisitions of note.
It's easy to get a little blindsided by Aston Villa's recent run of form, and there have been some half decent results in the past few weeks. But I remain steadfast in my opinion that this is anextremely poor Villa side that are destined for the Championship.
By complete contrast, I am a huge fan of what Slaven Bilic has, and still is, achieving at the Boleyn Ground. The Hammers are now one of the toughest teams in the league to beat, but in addition also have a very exciting and effective offensive set-up.
Along with Leicester, and Watford to a certain extent, West Ham have been continually underestimated by the betting markets this season. And up against a poor Villa side I'd say that is once again the case this Tuesday night. Take the 1.90 about a home win and back it with some degree of confidence.
The odds-against 2.30 about there being more than 2.5 goals in this match is tempting. However, it's one of those where we'd probably be reliant on Villa getting on the scoresheet for it to land, and right now, particularly against a solid defence such as West Ham's, I couldn't confidently place any money on a forward line of Libor Kozak, Jordan Ayew and Rudy Gestede.
It's a market that I won't be getting involved with, but if I were to have a bet then it would have to be on the Under 2.5 Goals selection at odds of 1.76.
Finally, if you fancy a bet on one of the more peripheral markets, then there is some value in the 25pts and Under selection here.
Jonathan Moss is the man in charge this Tuesday evening and he is naturally quite a conservative referee when it comes to getting out his cards. There shouldn't be too much 'beef' between these two sides and there's no reason to think that this might be a match where tensions start to simmer. Take some of the 25pts and Under at odds of around 3.00.

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