Our prediction for this FA Cup match:
Kidderminster
Match Time & Date:
05/02/2022
13:30
Prediction: 0-2
West Ham
West Ham will look to book their place in the FA Cup last 16 when they take on Kidderminster at Aggborough Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The Hammers are enjoying yet another successful season, but keep in mind that key attacker Michail Antonio is on international duty with Jamaica. The good news for the Premier League side, though, is that Mohamed Said Benrahma is back from international duty.
Kidderminster, on the other hand, booked their place in the last 32 by shocking Championship side Reading. The National League side, though, will have a mountain to climb in Saturday’s clash, and we do not believe that they are capable of claiming yet another major scalp in the FA Cup. When the two sides met in the FA Cup in February 1994 West Ham defeated Kidderminster 1-0, and we predict that the history is going to repeat itself.
Highlighted Player (Issa Diop):
After spending two years at Balma SC, Issa Diop joined Toulouse football academy in 2006 and he was making progress year by year. The 194-cm-tall defender made seven appearances for Toulouse B in the 2014/2015 season and he made his Ligue 1 debut with les Pitchouns on November 28, 2015 against Nice.
Issa Diop, who was born in Toulouse on January 9, 1997, scored his first ever goal in the French top flight in a 3-0 win over Troyes in December, 2015. Diop is a youth international for France at various levels, but seeing that his father Labysse Diop is of Senegal descent, the Toulouse footballer could represent les Lions de la Teranga at senior level.
The Toulouse defender scored two goals for les Pitchouns in the 2016/2017 Ligue 1 campaign and he made no less than 30 appearances for the club in the process. Issa Diop has a contract with Toulouse which expires on June 30, 2020.
Highlighted Team (West Ham):
West Ham United are an English football club based in East London. The club was founded in 1895 and it has to be noted that the club’s name was Thames Ironworks back then. The Hammers were playing their home games at Upton Park from 1904 until 2016, when they moved to the Stadium at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
West Ham have won three FA Cup trophies (1964, 1975 and 1980) and they were runners-up in 1923 and 2006. The capital club finished the 1985/1986 England first division campaign in third place in the standings and that is the club’s highest placing in the top flight. West Ham United have strong rivalries with fellow London clubs, but Tottenham Hotspur are considered the club’s main rivals.
A number of top-class players were part of West Ham in the past and the likes of Joe Cole, Carlos Tevez, Paolo Di Canio, Paul Ince, Julian Dicks, Shaka Hislop, Michael Carrick and Slaven Bilic are some of them.
