Glen Johnson has suggested that Michail Antonio is not good enough for West Ham United need at this moment in time.
West Ham are in all sorts of trouble at the moment, and we are currently sitting inside the relegation zone in the Premier League table.
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Hammers boss David Moyes is under real pressure at the London Stadium and rightly so – he has performed really poorly in his role as manager this season in my opinion.
However, it must be said that the Scot has had to deal with rotten luck when it comes to injuries.
One of the players who has never really got going due to Moyes’s reluctance to start him regularly and a succession of injury problems is Gianluca Scamacca.
And with the Italian not playing consistently, Michail Antonio has been given more chances than he deserves. The 32-year-old is well pass this best in my opinion, and that is a notion that one former Hammer agrees with…
Glen Johnson absolutely hammers West Ham forward Michail Antonio
The 38-year-old ex-West Ham right-back criticised Antonio for his inability to score goals for the Hammers at this moment in time.
Johnson highlighted how West Ham need more from their striker, as quoted by Football.London:
“Michail Antonio always works hard but his form has not been great for some time now. The problem with a player like Antonio, even when his form is good, he’s still not a natural goalscorer and won’t give you loads of goals. When he’s out of form, he can run around and draw some fouls, but that’s not good enough in the Premier League. For a struggling team, you have to give more.”
That’s perfectly fair from Johnson in my opinion.
Michail Antonio, who earns £100k-a-week, has been a fine servant for West Ham throughout the years, but he has experienced a drastic downturn in form over the past year or so.
He has lost his explosive pace that made him so hard to defend against and now he’s painfully unsuited to being a number 9.
If the 32-year-old is to have any kind of future with West Ham beyond the summer, he will need to start scoring regularly between now and the end of the season. With Gianluca Scamacca and Danny Ings returning to full fitness though, he might not even play regularly over the next few months.
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