Italy international Gianluca Scamacca made his Premier League debut today, and while he did not score, West Ham United fans were already impressed.
The 23-year-old made the transfer from Sassuolo for €36m plus €6m in add-ons and a 10 per cent cut of the selling-on fee.
He came off the bench for the final 33 minutes of West Ham’s 2-0 home defeat to Manchester City this evening, though that small cameo was already enough to get the supporters excited.
Positives:
— GUVNA B (@GuvnaB) August 7, 2022
That boy Scamacca can play.
Declan Rice is worth 200 mill.
Ben Johnson’s cross-field passing 🔥
And finally, that boy Scamacca can play. pic.twitter.com/KOVTGw4J6i
Scamacca looks more effective than Antonio and he's been on the field for 20 minutes
— Scarborough Hammer (@ScarboroughHam1) August 7, 2022
Scamacca is niceeee
— Alan Rzepa (@alanrzepa) August 7, 2022
Irons in the building. 🙌#MCIWHU | #ClaretAndBlue pic.twitter.com/R9YpiJJbeI
— West Ham United (@WestHam) August 7, 2022
Scamacca.
— ⚒🫧⚒ TERRY ⚒🫧⚒ (@WestHam05610307) August 7, 2022
He won every header.
When the ball was about to be crossed in he hung right onto the last defender, putting himself in a great position.
His ball control was great.
Overall I really believe he will be a top top signing.
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Clear to see Gianluca Scamacca’s ability already in his cameo for West Ham. Once he gets fully fit he will be dangerous. Such an impressive signing.
— Dan Woffenden (@danwoff98) August 7, 2022
Every time Scamacca touched the ball today he linked up with someone or made something happen. He’s going to be 🔝 for us once he’s 💯 fit & ready to play 90 min
— ⚒ Djtiale ⚒ (@DJTiale) August 7, 2022
Scamacca looks a bit of alright though! 🇮🇹 pic.twitter.com/O5nq4sKQ5U
— dr🎡 (@whufcdamo) August 7, 2022
Scamacca looks this sharp and he wasn’t deemed match fit, he might score 3 next week
— m (@29morg) August 7, 2022
✅ Positives from today:
— Whucentre (@whucentre) August 7, 2022
• The big one is Scamacca. He looked very good when he came on. Good hold up, good on the ball, very impressed.
• Johnson looked very good at centre half.
• Thought Rice did well
Pity Serie A sides are too broke to keep their better players.
I don’t know why Juventus did not go for Scamacca. They need a another striker, yet are desperate to go for players like Morata and Arnautovic. Same with another Italian talent in Udogie – Juventus have a critical need at LB where most of their conceded goals come from, yet Tottenham have been allowed to close in on Udogie. Crazy management that is influenced by the dinasauor that is Allegri.
My grandma who has been dead for 15 years could’ve done more than Antonio. Helpless whilst his team played park the bus and he was left being tightly marked by Diaz.
It is normal that later in the 2nd half, energies slightly drop and more space opens up for a fresh sub to try and capitalise on. But prem fans are fickle. Give him 3-4 barren games, and they’ll quickly turn on him as a waste of money.
Scamacca did basically zero and the fans are excited? lol you have another thing coming!
@Putuco.
Neither his or Antonio’s fault, when all West Ham did was park the bus.
@Rosario sure, but that was exactly my point: nothing to get excited. West Ham was so badly outplayed and Areola entered to give away a cheap penalty