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Manchester City slumped to a 1-1 draw at West Ham on Saturday evening and so failed to match the three points title rivals Arsenal had picked up earlier in the day. In doing so, Pep Guardiola’s side lost further ground, perhaps fatally, in the battle at the top of the Premier League table.
With eight games left to play (and just seven for Arsenal), the gap now sits at nine points. Even with City boasting a game in hand, there may well be no way back for them now. Following a second successive draw in the Premier League, the Opta supercomputer now rates City’s chances of winning the league at just 2.43%.
Based on how the game started, City had hinted that they might make light work of their relegation-threatened opponents. They dominated from the early stages and created more than enough to win the game in the first half alone.
They eventually took the lead without actually creating a shooting opportunity, with Bernardo Silva scoring a remarkable goal that was either a moment of utter genius or bizarre good fortune, as Silva dinked the ball over Mads Hermansen in the West Ham goal from a 0.03 xG chance from a tight angle. If he meant to find the net, it was one of the great Premier League goals. If he didn’t, it was little more than a mishit cross.
Silva has now been involved in seven Premier League goals against West Ham (2 goals, 5 assists), only having more goal involvements against Manchester United (2 goals, 6 assists).
The visitors, who were without their banned manager Pep Guardiola in the dugout, were so dominant that they restricted their opponents to a single shot all game, and yet their lead lasted only three minutes and 44 seconds. West Ham equalised with that sole shot when Konstantinos Mavropanos headed in from a corner.
It was only the second headed goal City have conceded in the Premier League this season – the fewest of any side.
It was also the 13th equalising goal City have conceded in league games this season, which is their highest ever in a Premier League campaign. Considering they have been relegated from the Premier League before, that is a damning indictment statistic for a team hoping to hunt down Arsenal at the top of the table.
City pushed and probed as they searched for a winner, but West Ham dropped back and dug in to earn a potentially crucial point in the relegation battle. The draw takes them out of the relegation zone at the end of a day for the first time since 2 December.
West Ham had their joint lowest shot tally in a Premier League match on record (since 2003-04), alongside the one shot they had against Chelsea in January 2014, but this was the kind of resolute defensive display that should give them huge belief in their fight against the drop.
The headline from this game, however, was that the result might well have ended the Premier League title battle, and we aren’t even halfway through March.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the West Ham vs Man City stats from their Premier League meeting on Saturday evening.
The match centre below includes team and player stats, expected goals data, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and more. It gives you everything you need to do your own match analysis.
Underneath the match centre you can find the official Opta stats on the game as well.
West Ham vs Man City Post-Match Facts
West Ham United now sit 17th in the Premier League table, the first time they will end a night outside the relegation zone since 2 December. Manchester City will end the night nine points behind top spot for just the fourth time this season (also 20 September, 1 November and 7 February). The only team to win a Premier League title having ended the night 9+ points behind the top having played 30 or more games is Man City themselves in 2013-14 (9 points behind top on 20 April after 33 games). West Ham had just one shot tonight, their joint fewest in a Premier League match Opta has on record – they also had one against Chelsea in January 2014. They were the first side to score with their only shot of a match since Ipswich also against Man City in August 2024 in a 4-1 loss.Enjoy this? Subscribe to our football newsletter to receive exclusive weekly content. You should also follow our social accounts over on X, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.
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