Graham Potter praised Jarrod Bowen for his response to lacking out on the England squad this week after the ahead starred in West Ham’s 3-1 win at Ipswich City.
Bowen was dropped by Thomas Tuchel for the Three Lions’ June internationals regardless of his spectacular current kind, and excelled once more at Portman Highway, organising the Hammers’ first and brilliantly scoring the second.
Of the six instances a West Ham participant has recorded 20+ objective involvements in a Premier League marketing campaign, Bowen, who made his two hundredth look within the competitors, accounts for 50% of them (3/6 with 13 objectives and eight assists this season).
Mohammed Kudus’ late strike sealed the factors, however Potter believes Bowen, who turned the primary West Ham participant to attain in 4 straight league video games since Jesse Lingard in 2021, was the category act on the pitch.
He mentioned: “His efficiency sums him up as an individual. He’s upset, however all the pieces we did that was good got here by means of him.
“Everybody within the stadium may really feel when he had the ball, he had a sharpness about him. All he can do is react in a great way, and he did.”
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Victory lifted West Ham up a place into 14th within the closing Premier League standings, however Potter is aware of there may be loads of work to do to be able to enhance subsequent time period and intends to be on the forefront of these efforts.
Requested how concerned he will likely be with summer time recruitment, he mentioned: “Actually concerned. It’s an enormous summer time.
“We now have too many gamers, particularly in the event that they’re all senior gamers. There’s an excessive amount of cash not on the pitch.
“We now have to be good. We now have to make proper selections and be aligned.”
Ipswich completed nineteenth and have made an instantaneous return to the Championship, however Kieran McKenna was in an upbeat temper, claiming the membership are in a great place.
He mentioned: “I don’t suppose there have been many weeks when you’ll be able to query their [the players’] dedication. The gamers have given all the pieces.
“The followers can see a membership that’s very a lot nonetheless collectively and united, and so they’ve been an enormous a part of that, sticking proper behind us. That’s going to be an enormous factor going ahead.
“We’ve completed the season not with the result that we wish, however nonetheless very a lot collectively, and that places us in a extremely sturdy place going into the years forward.”
Ipswich end the 2024-25 season with simply 22 factors, their lowest-ever tally in a league marketing campaign (three factors for a win), whereas their whole of 4 wins can also be their lowest ever in a league season.
