Tony Cottee has told Mikey Antonio to get back into the box as he bids to start scoring goals again for the Hammers.

The West Ham striker has struggled to hit the back of the net in recent weeks and hasn’t scored since the win over Spurs back in October.

That means he has now gone eight games without scoring a goal in the Premier League, having netted six times in his first eight appearances.

And Cottee believes that he has now reverted to a habit of drifting out wide in search of the ball, as he did repeatedly in the defeat to Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium in midweek.

As a result, the former Hammer has urged Mikey to get back into the box and start gobbling up the chances that come his way.

Speaking to talkSPORT, as per West Ham Zone, Cottee said: “It’s the most frustrating thing in the world when you start the season, you’re smashing goals in, you’re creating goals; he was on fire for the first ten games; he was absolutely brilliant.

“Then all of a sudden, you just get a spell where you can’t do anything right, and it’s so frustrating.

“I was watching him very closely the other night, and what starts happening is you start drifting around the pitch, and when the ball goes into the box, you’re sort of out wide at the corner flag.

“You’re not going to score out there, so he just needs to get back to basics, get down the middle of the pitch, be big and strong, hold the ball up and get in the 18-yard and six-yard box; which is where you get your goals.”

Mikey did not have the chance to play against Norwich after the game was postponed but he will be out to get back on the scoresheet against Spurs in the Carabao Cup quarter-final in midweek.