West Ham are winless in their last 15 Premier League games against Manchester City (D3 L12), since a 2-1 away win in September 2015. Only against Manchester United (16 between 1993 and 2001) have the Hammers had a longer run without a win in the competition.

Manchester City are unbeaten in their last eight Premier League away games against West Ham, since a 2-1 loss in October 2014. They've scored 24 goals in these eight visits, while conceding just six times in return.

After drawing with Bournemouth on the opening day, West Ham have won each of their last three league matches, and could win four in a row for the first time since November 2021. With 10 points, this is the Hammers’ joint-best start to a Premier League campaign after four games, along with 1999-2000, when they came ninth under Harry Redknapp.

Manchester City have lost just one of their last 11 games in the Premier League against teams starting the day inside the top four at least five matches into a season (W8 D2), with that defeat coming away to Manchester United in January of last season.

West Ham have lost nine of their last 10 Premier League matches against the competition’s reigning champions (D1), conceding at least two goals in nine of those. They have beaten the reigning champions five times in total, with each of the last four instances coming in home games – December 2007 vs Manchester United, October 2014 vs Manchester City, October 2015 and December 2017 vs Chelsea.

Only one of the 13 teams who were unbeaten at least four games into a Premier League campaign have won when hosting the competition’s reigning champions (D7 L5), with Liverpool winning 3-1 against Manchester City in November 2019 in their 12th game of the 2019-20 season (W10 D1 going into it).

Man City boss Pep Guardiola is unbeaten in all 14 of his Premier League games against West Ham, winning 12 and drawing two. Only Alex Ferguson faced an opponent more as a manager in the competition without ever losing (16 vs Charlton).

David Moyes earned 40 points from 22 games against Manchester City in the Premier League while he was in charge of Everton (W12 D4 L6), while he has since picked up just two points from 13 games against them with Manchester United, Sunderland and current club West Ham (D2 L11).

Erling Haaland’s opening four Premier League games for Manchester City this season have mirrored his record from his opening four games last season – a brace on MD1, no goals on MD2, one goal on MD3 and a hat-trick on MD4. The Norwegian scored a hat-trick on MD5 last season against Nottingham Forest.

West Ham midfielder James Ward-Prowse has scored or assisted at least once in each of his last five games in the Premier League (2 goals, 4 assists), the second time he’s done so in the top-flight after December 2021-January 2022 for Southampton. Ward-Prowse has never been directly involved in a goal in six successive Premier League matches.