As a result of Jarrod Bowen’s strong start to the season, West Ham United’s struggles to find a suitable striker during the summer transfer market are quickly becoming a distant memory. Bowen scored his third goal of the year for the club managed by David Moyes on Friday as they defeated Luton Town by a score of 2-1. This gives him a total of four goals in his last four games heading into the international break in September.
After the sale of Gianluca Scamacca to Atlanta, David Moyes was left with only Michail Antonio and Danny Ings as his senior striker options. As a result, the West Ham United football club spent the most of the transfer window looking for a new striker to add to their roster.
A misstep by PSG at the wrong time Hugo Ekitike gave the impression that he could provide the Hammers with an alternative when their late-round attempt to recruit Santiago Gimenez from Feyenoord was unsuccessful. (via, Toby Cudworth)
Although West Ham is currently the fourth-highest scorer in the Premier League, Bowen is helping the Hammers supporters forget about their team’s lack of a goal-scoring striker throughout the early portions of the season. This is helping the Hammers fans forget about the fact that West Ham is currently the fourth-highest scorer in the Premier League.
The 26-year-old is presently tied for fourth place in the Premier League scoring lists, only below the penalty taker for Brentford, Bryan Mbuemo, as well as true strikers Evan Ferguson and Erling Haaland, and two other forwards. He has scored four goals so far this season.
Bowen Is Now In Charge Of The Attacking Half For West Ham
This comes as no surprise to Bowen, who was a consistent goal scorer while playing for Hull City. During the 2021–2022 season at the London Stadium, he managed 31 goal involvements in 51 appearances in all competitions for the Hammers.
The Irons wide-man’s finishing has been great through the first four games of the current season, with his three goals coming from 2.28 xG while he has created four chances for his teammates despite only managing one assist (Fotmob).
There is concern that Bowen’s recent stellar play may just be a phase. After all, the main source of your goals has missed two significant opportunities this year. Haaland has already missed three opportunities this year, but that is the case with almost every forward in the Premier League.
The truth of modern football is that you don’t always need one striker to score goals for your team to do well in the top league. As long as goals are coming from other parts of the pitch, you can do well.
Few people will say they need a new centre forward if players like Mohammed Kudus and Said Benrahma can also gain from the Jamaican international’s hard work, as Bowen did.
