Danny Ings still has key role to play, West Ham United ace brushing shoulders with leading PL attackers
West Ham have struggled in the Premier League this season, with the East London outfit still not mathematically safe from relegation.
The fantastic Europa Conference League run has kept fans distracted, with silverware on the cards thanks to their superb journey in the competition.
Manager David Moyes will need his entire squad fit and firing in the coming weeks, with the fixtures in both competitions coming thick and fast.
One player that could play a major role this month is Danny Ings, despite the striker not quite hitting the heights many expected he would in claret and blue.
His January transfer from Aston Villa was a surprise to many as the Hammers aimed to ease the scoring burden on Michail Antonio and Gianluca Scamacca.
But another surprise concerning Ings has emerged, this time his lack of success in the final third.
The striker has been in and out of the starting XI since moving to East London, with such irregularity leading to Ings netting just three goals from his 19 appearances for the club.
Two of those goals came in the same match against Nottingham Forest, with the other arriving against Gent in the Europa Conference League.
Despite this lack of success going forward, Ings finds himself brushing shoulders with the Premier League’s top attackers.
Thanks to his brief time at West Ham and his previous efforts at Aston Villa earlier in the season, the striker boasts a conversation rate of 21.6% this season, as per WhoScored.
That figure sees him sit ninth for the current Premier League campaign, ahead of Brentford ace Ivan Toney and in the top 10 alongside Manchester City star Erling Haaland.
Moyes knows there is a real player there, with the boss and indeed Hammers fans desperate for their striker to recreate the form he has previously shown at the likes of Burnley and Southampton, where he found the back of the net for fun.
Chances could be hard to come by should West Ham find themselves in the Europa Conference League final, but supporters will be thrilled if a chance to win the game does fall to the feet of the clinical Ings.