West Ham face a stern test of their top-four credentials when Manchester City visit the London Stadium on Sunday.
David Moyes’ side held City to a 2-2 draw in the penultimate game of 2021/22 and will have been buoyed by the champions’ initial teething problems bedding in new signing Erling Haaland.
Haaland cut an isolated figure in the Community Shield defeat to Liverpool last weekend and the Irons will be hoping the opening league fixture comes too soon for Pep Guardiola to rectify City’s misfiring attack.
