{"id":70385,"date":"2025-11-20T13:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/?p=70385"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:21:21","slug":"west-ham-bournemouth-premier-league-nuno-iraola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/west-ham-bournemouth-premier-league-nuno-iraola\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worrying Reason West Ham Don&#8217;t Stand A Chance Of Beating Bournemouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>West Ham travel to Bournemouth on Saturday, but history suggests they won&#8217;t emerge victorious from their trip to the South Coast.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a dreadful start to the season for West Ham.<\/p>\n<p>The Irons picked up just one win in their first nine games, and looked to be in absolute free-fall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/west-ham-transfer-targets-premier-league-january\/\"><strong>West Ham&#8217;s January transfer targets<\/strong><\/a> list had grown long thanks to the need to strengthen throughout the squad.<\/p>\n<p>But after manager Graham Potter was sacked and replaced with Nuno Esprito Santo, the situation has improved.<\/p>\n<p>Back-to-back wins in their last two games, against Newcastle and Burnley, have seen them move closer to safety.<\/p>\n<p>Below 17th-placed Burnley on goal difference alone, a win this weekend could see them climb as high as 14th.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t look likely, thanks to a worrying stat.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We travel south this weekend \u23ed\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ellNDhDtSX\">pic.twitter.com\/ellNDhDtSX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; West Ham United (@WestHam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WestHam\/status\/1991431330798703023?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>West Ham Manager Nuno Espirito Santo Has Never Beaten Iraola<\/h2>\n<p>This weekend&#8217;s trip to Bournemouth was already a daunting one for West Ham.<\/p>\n<p>The Cherries have made a strong start to the campaign, and sit ninth in thew table.<\/p>\n<p>They are just one point off the Champions League places, and only four below second-placed Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Star-man Antoine Semenyo has attracted interest from across the league after impressing so far, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/antoine-semenyo-next-club-betting-odds\/\"><strong>Manchester club favourites to sign Semenyo<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the Ghanaian international is an injury doubt for this weekend should encourage West Ham.<\/p>\n<p>Yet there is another reason for their fans to be worried ahead of Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Irons boss Nuno Espirito Santo has faced Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola four times in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>But he is yet to win against the Spaniard, with two draws and two losses.<\/p>\n<p>Among those defeats was a 5-0 thrashing while he was in charge of Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33783\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33783\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/Andoni-Iraola-2-1024x683-1-560x374.webp\" alt=\"Andoni Iraola west ham bournemouth\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/Andoni-Iraola-2-1024x683-1-560x374.webp 560w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/Andoni-Iraola-2-1024x683-1-350x234.webp 350w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/Andoni-Iraola-2-1024x683-1-768x513.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/Andoni-Iraola-2-1024x683-1.webp 770w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola has had the better of Nuno Espirito Santo so far.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The only manager Nuno has faced more times in the Premier League without beating is former Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp.<\/p>\n<p>Bournemouth are comfortable favourites with most football betting sites, at around 4\/6.<\/p>\n<p>And with Nuno&#8217;s awful record against Iraola, it looks like West Ham are already beaten.<\/p>\n<h2>West Ham&#8217;s Record Vs Bournemouth Gives Irons Hope<\/h2>\n<p>While Hammers boss Nuno may have a woeful track record against Andoni Iraola, West Ham&#8217;s head-to-head stats against Bournemouth are much more positive.<\/p>\n<p>The Irons have not tasted defeat at the hands of the Cherries since 2019, and run of nine games.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham have played Bournemouth 20 times, losing just four.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70391\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/11\/West-Ham-Bournemouth-560x316.jpeg\" alt=\"West Ham Bournemouth\" width=\"560\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/11\/West-Ham-Bournemouth-560x316.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/11\/West-Ham-Bournemouth-350x198.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/11\/West-Ham-Bournemouth.jpeg 655w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Ham have a decent record against Bournemouth overall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They have managed eight wins and eight draws from the remaining 16 meetings.<\/p>\n<p>However, the last Premier League win for West Ham against the Cherries was in 2023, which was also their only away victory in seven trips to the Vitality Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, West Ham fans will be hoping their side can rip up the history books on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Victory would almost certainly move them out of the drop zone, and ease relegation fears heading into the festive period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham travel to Bournemouth on Saturday, but history suggests they won&#8217;t emerge victorious from their trip to the South Coast. 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Now at SportsCasting, James provides expert analysis and detailed research features, as well as covering breaking news stories.","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/x.com\/JChittickjourno"],"url":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/author\/jameschittick\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70402,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70385\/revisions\/70402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}