ExWHUemployee has predicted that West Ham United winger Jarrod Bowen will be fine amid concerns over his fitness after a nasty-looking injury.
In the club’s most recent game, the 25-year-old unfortunately suffered what looked like a dislocated finger as he helped his side claim an important Premier League win.
Indeed, Bowen may have got his name on the scoresheet in a 2-0 victory over Wolves, but he also managed to hurt himself in a pretty troubling way, as these images show.
However, while talking about the issue on The West Ham Way podcast, Ex claimed that Bowen will probably be fine to play immediately with his finger strapped up, but may well be rested in Europe this week just to give him a rest.
He explained: “He dislocated his finger. So, I think they’re reasonably easy to fix, dislocated fingers. And if not, it’ll be strapped up.
“He probably should still be able to play with the fingers strapped up, but again, I would imagine they probably will rest him for Thursday as a result. But again, this is just predictions rather than facts. So we shall see.”
TIF Thoughts on Jarrod Bowen and West Ham…
Bowen hasn’t had a great start to the new season for West Ham, and his goal against Wolves was his first in the league so far. However, he has scored twice in Europe this term (via Transfermarkt).
With that in mind, he may well want to help build up some more momentum and play in the Europa Conference League against Anderlecht later this week.
If that is the case, it does at least sound like he should be available. But as Ex says, Bowen may be afforded some time off just to allow the injury to recover a little longer, so he might not feature ahead of the weekend’s clash against Fulham.
Having delivered 31 direct goal contributions in all competitions last term, fans will no doubt be glad to hear their star man will likely be fit and ready to play again soon either way.
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