West Ham United manager David Moyes will be looking to avoid setting an unwanted Premier League record when the Hammers welcome Wolverhampton Wanderers to the London Stadium on Sunday.
Moyes has been in the dugout for over 1,000 games across his 25-year managerial career, including 675 matches in the Premier League – the third-most behind Arsene Wenger (828) and Sir Alex Ferguson (810).
The 60-year-old Scotsman has spent the last four years in charge of West Ham in his second spell at the club and has enjoyed plenty of success in that period, most notably steering the Hammers to Europa Conference League glory last season.
Times have not always been easy for Moyes, though, and his West Ham side enter Sunday's clash with Wolves off the back of a humbling 5-0 defeat at Fulham in their last Premier League outing – their sixth top-flight defeat of the campaign.
Moyes has lost a total of 238 Premier League games as a manager, including 131 with Everton, 11 with Manchester United, 26 with Sunderland and 70 with West Ham.
Former Hammers boss Harry Redknapp has also suffered 238 Premier League losses, but defeat for Moyes against Wolves will see him break the outright record for defeats in the division as a manager.
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Both Moyes and West Ham will fancy their chances of success this weekend, though, as the Scotsman has only lost one of his eight top-flight home meetings with Wolves, winning five in the process, while the Hammers have won each of their last three encounters with the West Midlands club on home soil, including a 2-0 victory last season.
West Ham have enjoyed playing at the London Stadium in recent weeks, as they have won four and drawn one of their last five in front of their own fans across all competitions, and Moyes is keen to see his side's strong home form continue.
"We want to try and continue our good home form," Moyes said at a press conference on Friday. "We know it can be better but we want to keep our good run going.
"We've got home games coming up against Wolves, Manchester United and Brighton & Hove Albion in the next couple of weeks that we want to use to our advantage.
"We don't need to think too much about Europe now until March either (West Ham topping their Europa League group and qualifying for the last 16 after beating Freiburg 2-0 on Thursday), so we're looking forward to our coming games. We want to stay close to the boys at the top end of the table and try to get in amongst them."
West Ham currently sit ninth in the Premier League table, five points behind the top six as well as five points ahead of Wolves in 13th place.
Oliver Thomas
