West Ham: Moyes must ditch Tomas Soucek

West Ham United made it back-to-back Premier League wins with victory over newly-promoted Fulham on Sunday afternoon, with David Moyes’ aspect having fun with a optimistic week following their preliminary sluggish begin to the season.

Recent from edging previous Anderlecht within the Europa League Convention in midweek, the Hammers got here from behind following an early Andreas Pereira stunner to clinch all three factors towards Marco Silva’s males, with targets from Gianluca Scamacca, Jarrod Bowen and Michail Antonio capping what was a tremendous outing for the hosts on the London Stadium.

One man who considerably underwhelmed on the day, nevertheless, was under-fire midfielder, Tomas Soucek, with the 6 foot 4 colossus having endured a disappointing begin to the season within the centre of the park.

The 27-year-old had seemingly been tipped for a departure over the summer season following a reported stall in contract negotiations with the Irons, with that uncertainty having maybe performed its half in his current dip.

The Czech Republic worldwide had beforehand made a tremendous begin to life in England after becoming a member of from Slavia Prague on an preliminary loan deal in January 2020, notably scoring ten top-flight targets in his first full marketing campaign on the membership in the course of the 2020/21 season.

At current, nevertheless, the 54-cap gem appears approach wanting these earlier lofty requirements with simply one objective to his identify for this time period within the league, along with his all-round recreation having additionally appeared under-par in current occasions.

That was evident within the conquer the Cottagers, because the £40.5m-rated large notably misplaced possession ten occasions from his 62 touches, whereas additionally successful simply 40% of his aerial duels on the day, having failed to supply an imposing presence alongside skipper Declan Rice.

Ought to Moyes drop Soucek?

The West Ham midfield, as an entire, had been described as “passive” by journalist Joshua Mbu throughout Sunday’s win, with Soucek, specifically, failing to supply extra than simply an sufficient display screen in entrance of the again 4, showcased by the truth that he ranks in simply the bottom 14% for pressures made amongst these in his place throughout Europe’s high 5 leagues.

Because the Night Customary’s Malik Ouzia famous, the £67k-per-week man is ‘struggling to affect matches, for all he didn’t do an important deal unsuitable’, earlier than occurring to state that the towering titan ‘may have carried out with extra after Flynn Downes’ spectacular displaying in midweek’.

As alluded to above, Soucek’s place within the aspect was already “at risk” heading into that newest triumph – as per The Athletic’s Roshane Thomas – because of the current spectacular shows of summer season signing Flynn Downes, with the 23-year-old having sparkled in the course of the midweek journey to Belgium.

With the previous Swansea Metropolis man now providing agency competitors for his teammate to companion the aforementioned Rice, it may properly be time for Moyes to ruthlessly ditch the Czech machine transferring ahead.