West Ham United vs Leicester City - who is the better team?

Currently West Ham United has a better 1vs1 performance index with 90. West Ham United has 60 goals and Leicester City has a total of 62 goals. Our opinion is that currently West Ham United would win the match.

• At the moment West Ham United has the better defense. Through the entire team they have a total of 1914 interceptions and 248 blocks.
• In West Ham United the two top defensive players are Declan Rice and Naif Aguerd.
• In Leicester City the two top defenders are Caglar Soyuncu and Luke Thomas.
• Based on this statistics we believe that West Ham United has currently the best defense.

Evaluating the strength of a teams midfield is not easy. At 1vs1 we look at a value called Pass Progression Value (PPV). We measure the ability of players to play the pass into dangerous zones and to create chances. Leicester City has a PPV value of 0.27 and West Ham United has a value of 0.22. Within the team of Leicester City Ricardo Domingos Barbosa Pereira has a total value of 0.46 and in the team of West Ham United the best player is Aaron Cresswell.

• To analyse the best strikers of teams we look at the amount of goals, shots on goal and an interesting metric called expected goal value (Xg value – measure who the probability of a chance to turn into a goal.)
• West Ham United has scored in this season so far 60 goals and 191 shots on goal. Leicester City scored 62 and 145 shots on goal.
• The two best players of West Ham United are Gianluca Scamacca with 16 goals and Jarrod Bowen with 12 goals. Their expected goal value per 90 minutes is 11.51 and 12.57.
• The two best players of Leicester City are Jamie Vardy with 15 goals and James Maddison with 12 goals. Their expected goal value per 90 minutes is 8.9 and 7.12.
• Our opinion is that Leicester City has the better offensive players than West Ham United.

Based on all statistical information we believe that currently West Ham United is the better team. Please feel free to discuss with us – the comment box is below. We will be happy to reply.