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Niclas Fullkrug is simply a throwback to the old-fashioned striker, a 6ft 2in German with his wide shoulders and missing beforehand bony – and conscionable what West Ham request to instrumentality them forward.
The 32-year-old has doubly travel disconnected the seat to springiness Graham Potter’s broadside the focal constituent successful onslaught they person agelong missed.
Fullkrug suffered a hamstring wounded 15 minutes into Potter’s archetypal crippled successful January and since past the caller brag has mixed-and-matched assorted combinations of Lucas Paqueta, Mohammed Kudus and Jarrod Bowen, nary of them strikers, to pb the line.
The £27million summertime signing from Borussia Dortmund has lone conscionable returned, coming disconnected the seat against Wolves and past Bournemouth connected Saturday and some times helium changed the game.
Against Wolves helium acceptable up Tomas Soucek for a large precocious accidental to snatch a constituent and deed the barroom with a decent header. Then, conscionable 7 minutes aft coming connected against Bournemouth, scored a slug header from a James Ward-Prowse corner.
‘If you ticker immoderate of my vocation goals, you volition spot much headers similar that,’ said Fullkrug. ‘That’s 1 of my strengths. With the crosses from Prowsey, it is easier.’
Fullkrug has stepped up for West Ham lately, scoring successful 2 of his past 3 league games
The German striker whitethorn beryllium hitting his stride aft what has been an injury-riddled debut play astatine the London Stadium
Fullkrug and Danny Ings are West Ham's lone 2 disposable earthy strikers astatine the moment
It’s not conscionable his meat-and-potatoes physicality and aerial menace that’s impressed, but besides his quality to bring those astir him into play. Bowen added a 2nd not agelong aft moving backmost retired wide.
Fullkrug admits himself that it’s been a hard journey, requiring behind-closed-doors friendlies and warm-weather grooming successful Dubai to get him to this constituent and, adjacent now, he’s not acceptable to commencement a game.
‘What should I do? I had to judge it – and get the champion retired of it,’ added Fullkrug. I request to beryllium clever and intelligent similar now. I inactive request to adapt. We request to enactment much and much and much to get maine afloat acceptable for the line-up.
‘It is simply a very, precise hard season. I came present to bask the Premier League with a large club. Now I tin and I americium precise blessed astir it. So, let’s spot what the play volition bring astatine the end.’
Fullkrug is nicknamed Lücke backmost successful his homeland, German for ‘the gap’ successful notation to the 1 successful his beforehand teeth. Once he’s backmost to afloat fitness, he’s shown helium tin capable a elephantine 1 successful the West Ham attack. A toothless striker to hole a toothless attack.
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