Six chances, apparently, were created by one player in West Ham’s comeback against Leeds United last weekend before the Hammers eventually fluffed their lines in the penalty shootout.
Adama Traore has been highlighted by insidefutbol.com as being the Hammers’ newest assist king: Traore laid on the cross from which Axel Disasi prodded home the irons equaliser and the Spaniard now looks a world away from the musclebound mass that didn’t have an appetite for running when he first appeared in Claret and Blue back in January.
Becoming a potent threat – winger Traore has justified Nuno’s faith
Whether Nuno’s demand that he stay out of the gym has done the trick or whether his enhanced endurance is down to a couple of months of regular first team football – who can say but the Adama Traore that has appeared for West Ham in the last couple of games is making the ‘doubters’ – me included – look silly.
As the report confirms,
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“Traore is also fully on board with Nuno’s plan to get West Ham out of trouble and [Jermain] Beckford thinks the winger is showing his best. The former Premier League striker admits that the cup tie was the best performance he has ever seen from Traore.
“I can’t take anything away from Adama Traore”, Jermain Beckford said…“That was the best I have ever seen him.”
Nuno has so far preferred to use Traore as an impact substitute in the Premier League, but the winger will hope his display against Leeds might lead to the Portuguese giving him a start.”
Highly likely, you’d think, given Summerville’s recovery situation: Better by far to start the hard to stop Traore from the outset.
If he can deliver more of those quality crosses from the left that he managed against Leeds when Wolves visit tonight, then Taty and Pablo may yet be able to add to their meagre goal tally – and what a time that’d be for either of the duo to get onto the score sheet.