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title: "West Ham: Roshane Thomas expresses Jarrod Bowen England concern"
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author: "David Comerford"
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published: "2022-03-06T11:05:16Z"
modified: "2022-03-06T11:05:16Z"
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# West Ham: Roshane Thomas expresses Jarrod Bowen England concern

**West Ham journalist Roshane Thomas is worried that Jarrod Bowen will miss out on an England call-up because of injury.**

### The lowdown

The 25-year-old limped off 53 minutes into West Ham’s 1-0 defeat against Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday evening.

The winger, who looked in ‘clear distress’ according to [The Daily Mail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10581913/England-hopeful-Jarrod-Bowen-suffers-injury-blow-ahead-West-Hams-Europa-League-tie-vs-Sevilla.html)‘s Joe Bernstein, [will have a scan](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10581913/England-hopeful-Jarrod-Bowen-suffers-injury-blow-ahead-West-Hams-Europa-League-tie-vs-Sevilla.html) on his heel to determine the severity of the problem.

England are due to face Switzerland on 26 March and Ivory Coast three days later in a pair of friendlies at the end of this month.

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### The latest

Thomas, who is West Ham correspondent for The Athletic, [took to Twitter](https://twitter.com/RoshaneSport/status/1500180114700705792) during the game to express his hope that the injury to Bowen is not serious enough to prevent him from earning a place in Gareth Southgate’s squad for the upcoming England games.

The journalist tweeted: “Really hope it’s nothing serious. Would be a great shame if injury prevented Bowen from earning an England call-up.”

### The verdict

Bowen is more than deserving of a call-up for the Three Lions.

Only two English players – Jamie Vardy (10) and Emile Smith Rowe (nine) – have scored more non-penalty goals than Bowen (eight) in the Premier League this season (via [FBRef](https://fbref.com/en/comps/9/stats/Premier-League-Stats)), while only one – Trent Alexander-Arnold (11) – has provided more assists than Bowen’s eight ([BBC Sport](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/top-scorers/assists)).

Missing out for fitness reasons would perhaps be tough to take for the 25-year-old, but he’d still hope to use subsequent international windows to convince Southgate that he’s worthy of a place in the squad for the World Cup in November.

West Ham’s bigger concern, of course, is potentially being without Bowen for a run of games which includes a Europa League round of 16 tie against Sevilla and a London derby against Tottenham Hotspur. Given his aforementioned goal contributions, he would be a big loss for those crunch fixtures.

**In other news, [a West Ham insider has shared this update on Jesse Lingard](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/west-ham-transfer-rumours/west-ham-united-man-united-claretandhugh-jesse-lingard-update-latest-whufc-transfer-news/)**