In my opinion West Ham is clear favorite of today's match up and they should be able to make comfortable win with at least 2/3 goals margin.

West Ham coming for today's game with the strongest possible line up, they don't have any new important absences. On the other hand Rapid have serious squad problems-their first goalkeeper Strebinger is unavailable today, same as key midfielder Schuster. Two key defenders Hofmann and Kara are probably out today as well.

West Ham coming for today's match full of confidence as they won last two matches in a row. They won twice on away, against Manchester United in cup and against Leeds in Premiere League. For sure they wants to go with momentum. West Ham don't have problems with goalscoring, they scored more than one goal in 6 of last 9 matches and during that run they played against much stronger opponents than Rapid.

Guests are in very poor form at the moment - they lost 4 of last 5 matches. In last match they've been trashed 0:3 at home by Sturm Graz. Morale in team must be on very low level. Rapid at the moment have big problems with creativity - they failed to score in 3 of last 4 matches and for sure they will have problems with scoring goals against West Ham very solid goalkeeper Fabiański.

It's a special night for Hammers, first group match at home in European Cups since 2006. Motivation should be on the highest possible level and we can expect from hosts top performance under the lights. Coach Moyes said: "It's incredibly exciting. It's an achievement that the players put an enormous amount of work in to reach. We'll have a huge crowd here for a Europa League group-stage game."

West Ham proved in their first group match on away against Dinamo Zagreb (2:0 win). Rapid lost 0:1 in opener at home against Genk and that was fully deserved loss.

Rapid lost 18 of their 26 away matches in Europa League. In last away match they played as well in London, but against Arsenal and they lost 1:4. I expect another big loss for them today.

在我看来，西汉姆显然是今天比赛的热门，他们应该能够轻松取胜，至少有2/3的进球优势。

西汉姆带着最强的阵容来参加今天的比赛，他们没有任何新的重要的缺阵。另一方面，维快速的阵容有严重的问题——他们的第一个门将斯特雷宾格今天不能上场，关键中场舒斯特尔也是如此。两名关键防守队员霍夫曼和卡拉今天可能也缺席了。

西汉姆对今天的比赛充满信心，因为他们已经连续赢了两场比赛。他们在客场赢了两场，在杯赛中赢了曼联，在英超中赢了利兹联。当然，他们想要的是势头。西汉姆在进球方面没有问题，他们在过去的9场比赛中有6场进球超过1个，而且在这段时间里他们面对的是比维快速更强大的对手。

维快速现在状态很差——他们输了最近5场比赛中的4场。在上一场比赛中，他们在主场被斯特姆·格拉茨0:3击败。团队的士气一定很低。维快速现在在创造力上有很大的问题——他们在最近的4场比赛中有3场没有进球，当然他们在对阵西汉姆的比赛中也会有进球问题，他们的门将非常可靠法比安斯基。

对于铁锤帮来说，这是一个特殊的夜晚，这是自2006年以来第一次在主场进行的欧战赛事。球队很有战意，我们可以期待西汉姆联有最好的表现。莫耶斯教练说:“这太令人兴奋了。这是一项成就，球员们投入了大量的工作。我们会有大量的观众来观看欧罗巴联赛小组赛。”

西汉姆在小组赛第一场客场对阵萨格勒布迪纳摩的比赛中证明了这一点(2:0获胜)。在揭幕战中，快速0:1输给了根克，完全是应得的。

在欧罗巴联赛的26场客场比赛中，维快速输掉了18场。在上一场客场比赛中，他们在伦敦的表现也很好，但是在与阿森纳的比赛中，他们以1:4输了。我估计他们今天会再输一场。