This season has been one that Felipe Anderson has greatly struggled. An injury issue and a massive lack of consistency from the Brazilian has resulted in the fact that Anderson has scored just once this season in the Premier League across 21 appearances (Transfermarkt).
Anderson started just one of West Ham’s last seven games, missing three of those owing to injury, failing to make the squad once, remaining an unused substitute once and coming off the bench for just a single minute in the other (Transfermarkt), and getting back into the starting eleven won’t be easy.
Against Southampton on the weekend, David Moyes lined his side up with what was an attacking quartet of Sebastien Haller, Michail Antonio, Pablo Fornals and Jarrod Bowen, with Haller, Antonio and Bowen all scoring whilst Fornals registered two assists (WhoScored).
There is no doubt that Moyes will opt to rotate before long, but if Anderson wants to get back into the best eleven that he will seriously have to perform when he gets given his chances, and it’s hard to see which of those four he might displace.
The fee that Anderson had paid for him by the Hammers was a massive club-record £41.5m back in summer 2018 (BBC), and whilst that fee is not something that looks justified now, if he can get his head down and get back his best form then he should make it back into the side.
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It won’t be easy for the 26-year-old but given that last season saw Anderson bag ten goals and five assists in 40 games in all competitions, he certainly has the talent to get back into the starting eleven at the London Stadium, he just has to get his head down and work hard.
