In Ansu Fati, Barcelona may well be grooming the successor for their extremely successful captain Lionel Messi. The young Bissau-Guinean becomes one of the very few Africans to ever break into the Barcelona attacking ranks, after the legendary reign of Samuel Etoo in the 2000s.

At just 16, the Guinea Bissau born Fati is already doing things Messi did not do at his age.



Against Valencia on Saturday, Fati stole the show. He scored on a tidy finish and gave a wonderful assist to put Barca up by two goals in just seven minutes, showing his team the way in a resounding 5-2 win.

He’s now scored twice already in three league appearances – the first came in the 2-2 tie at Osasuna. For reference, it took Messi 13 games to score his second Barca goal. And Messi was older, too.



Optajose noted on Twitter: “Ansu Fati (16 years and 318 days) has become the youngest player to both score and assist in a LaLiga game in the 21st century. Diamond.”



In just the second minute, Fati connected with Frenkie de Jong’s square ball for a tidy finish.

And five minutes later, Fati scampered up the left, beat his man and cut back for de Jong, who struck it home for his first goal as a Barca player:

They beat a familiar face in Jasper Cillessen, Barca’s backup goalkeeper until last season. After the intermission, the Dutchman parried a Griezmann shot off his near post, but it skipped free for Gerard Pique to bundle in the third goal. Then Suarez came on and scored twice, including immediately clipping a ball in off the near post.

Fati’s influence waned in the second half, and he came off for Suarez after an hour. But he was the story. This was evidenced by the rousing ovation the Camp Nou gave him.

He was also named man of the match.

http://www.reportminds.com/2019/09/real-madrid-coach-zidane-praises-james.html


lalasticlala, seun, mynd44, dominique

Na wa,
Just three appearances and they are already comparing him with the G.O.A.T's rival.

For now, he is a Nwamkpi and such early overhyping causes stunted growth in goats.

Make dem no use hype kill this guy like Krkik Bojan and Giovanni Dos Santos

And op cannot post his pics

Where are the Messi vs Ronaldo fans ? Now it's going to be Fati vs mbappe

It's too early for comparisons

The whole world was once crazy about the likes of Balotelli, robinho, freddy adu, wilshere, gotze and even fabio paim the one guy ronaldo once praised and said was going to be bigger than him.

drips8:
It's too early for comparisons

The whole world was once crazy about the likes of Balotelli, robinho, freddy adu, wilshere, gotze and even fabio paim the one guy ronaldo once praised and said was going to be bigger than him.

Each if the people you mentioned were hindered by the behaviours except Wilshere and Gotze who were affected by excessive injuries and a metabolic disease respectively

Tomreed:


Each if the people you mentioned were hindered by the behaviours except Wilshere and Gotze who were affected by excessive injuries and a metabolic disease respectively

I just read about Mario gotze and Jack wilshere about their body issues.

PS: Thanks for the info

Govanni dos santos own pain me like ,the guy dey play ronaldinho

Tolexander:
Make dem no use hype kill this guy like Krkik Bojan and Giovanni Dos Santos

I watched his game and I must say I was impressed . He played with confidence . Dribbled those old men . He needs play time I doubt if Barca would give him that .

Football is becoming less entertaining with the way we lay emphasis on only goal scorers. I mean playmakers are the real deal in a game of football.

Some strikers like Harry Kane will just be roaming the field, waiting for a criminal opportunity to slot home. He will then compare with someone like Sterling.

Nonsense!!

Thunder fire u OP. How can u make such comparisons

Only Roberto Firmino is fun to watch these days

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reportminds:
In Ansu Fati, Barcelona may well be grooming the successor for their extremely successful captain Lionel Messi. The young Bissau-Guinean becomes one of the very few Africans to ever break into the Barcelona attacking ranks, after the legendary reign of Samuel Etoo in the 2000s.

At just 16, the Guinea Bissau born Fati is already doing things Messi did not do at his age.



Against Valencia on Saturday, Fati stole the show. He scored on a tidy finish and gave a wonderful assist to put Barca up by two goals in just seven minutes, showing his team the way in a resounding 5-2 win.

He’s now scored twice already in three league appearances – the first came in the 2-2 tie at Osasuna. For reference, it took Messi 13 games to score his second Barca goal. And Messi was older, too.



Optajose noted on Twitter: “Ansu Fati (16 years and 318 days) has become the youngest player to both score and assist in a LaLiga game in the 21st century. Diamond.”



In just the second minute, Fati connected with Frenkie de Jong’s square ball for a tidy finish.

And five minutes later, Fati scampered up the left, beat his man and cut back for de Jong, who struck it home for his first goal as a Barca player:

They beat a familiar face in Jasper Cillessen, Barca’s backup goalkeeper until last season. After the intermission, the Dutchman parried a Griezmann shot off his near post, but it skipped free for Gerard Pique to bundle in the third goal. Then Suarez came on and scored twice, including immediately clipping a ball in off the near post.

Fati’s influence waned in the second half, and he came off for Suarez after an hour. But he was the story. This was evidenced by the rousing ovation the Camp Nou gave him.

He was also named man of the match.

http://www.reportminds.com/2019/09/real-madrid-coach-zidane-praises-james.html


lalasticlala, seun, mynd44, dominique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEZMy2h1Bkw

NwaAmaikpe:




Na wa,
Just three appearances and they are already comparing him with the G.O.A.T's rival.

For now, he is a Nwamkpi and such early overhyping causes stunted growth in goats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEZMy2h1Bkw

Tomreed:


Each if the people you mentioned were hindered by the behaviours except Wilshere and Gotze who were affected by excessive injuries and a metabolic disease respectively

With all due respect, I think other than the injury and metabolic shii, gotze in particular ended his career the day he moved to bayern