Jarrod Bowen absolutely raved about his teammate Michail Antonio after West Ham United beat Fulham 3-1 yesterday afternoon.
The Hammers earned a vital three points against Fulham and as a result, we are now sitting in 13th spot in the Premier League table, just four points adrift of the top seven.
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David Moyes brought eight new players to the London Stadium in the summer, and the Scot is slowly bedding all of them into the side.
It will obviously take time for all of those new players to gel together. This season though, it has been a lot of the old guard who have let Moyes down.
The likes of Jarrod Bowen and Michail Antonio have been nowhere near their best for West Ham. There have been recent signs that both players are returning to somewhere near their best though.
Bowen recently praised Moyes for the job that he has done at West Ham.
Now the challenge for the Scot and his West Ham players will be to make a real push for the top seven.
Yesterday’s win against Fulham was hugely important. Michail Antonio got the third and final goal for the Hammers, and Bowen opened up on the importance of the 32-year-old to this team…
Jarrod Bowen raves about West Ham teammate
The 25-year-old Hammers attacker has forged a tight bond with Michail Antonio both on and off the pitch since he moved to the London Stadium in January 2020.
And Bowen told the club’s official website just how highly he rates Antonio:
We need an impact from the bench. And Mickey again comes on [today]. He’s a handful, and he has got his goal; I’m delighted for him as well.
Antonio joined the Hammers from Nottingham Forest way back in 2015 for around £7 million (The Daily Mail).
The 32-year-old has bagged 65 goals and 40 assists in 241 games in all competitions for West Ham (Transfermarkt).
That’s a fairly impressive tally considering the fact that he didn’t start playing as a striker until the second half of the 2019/20 season.
We all know how important Antonio is to West Ham, and Jarrod Bowen has highlighted just how hard he is to play against.
The challenge for the six-capped Jamaica international now will be to keep putting pressure on David Moyes to select him from the start for games, with Gianluca Scamacca beginning to really flourish.
Personally, I would love to see Moyes play the two together up front. Whether that will ever happen though remains to be seen.
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