West Ham United will endeavour to close in on the top seven of the Premier League when they travel to Turf Moor to face basement club Burnley on Saturday afternoon.
The Clarets, meanwhile, are seeking to end a torrid six-game losing streak and claim their first points of the season on home soil.
Indeed, no team in Premier League history has accumulated fewer points than the Clarets (four) from the opening 12 games of a season, and they unsurprisingly sit rock bottom of the table – now level on points with Everton following their 10-point deduction for breaching financial rules.
Since claiming their only top-flight win of the season away at fellow promoted side Luton Town in early October, Burnley have suffered five straight league defeats and have conceded 14 goals in the process, losing 3-1 at Arsenal in their most recent fixture before the international break – not since 1895 have Burnley lost six successive top-flight games.
Many clubs would welcome a return to home soil, but Burnley have failed to satisfy the Turf Moor faithful this season having lost all six home matches by an aggregate score of 18-5; defeat to West Ham on Saturday would see them become just the second-ever English team to lose their first seven league games on their own patch after Newport County in the fourth tier in 1970-71.
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