Owen Hargreaves tipped Pau Cubarsi as Barcelona’s future star after his efficiency within the 3-1 Champions League win over Napoli on Tuesday night.
Xavi’s aspect drew 1-1 with Napoli within the first leg however objectives from Fermin Lopez, Joao Cancelo and Robert Lewandowski have secured Barca’s place in Friday’s Champions League quarter-final draw.
Cubarsi, in the meantime, was handed his Champions League debut and the 17-year-old delivered an excellent efficiency up in opposition to Napoli’s star striker Victor Osimhen.
‘He [Cubarsi] was the star of the present,’ Hargreaves instructed TNT Sports activities after Barcelona’s win.
‘Yamal’s totally different as a result of he’s clearly the winger. This child [Cubarsi] was selecting out passes for enjoyable, he made it look really easy.
‘He was bodily when he wanted to be, for a Spanish centre-back to be as bodily in opposition to anyone like Osimhen is kind of uncommon.
‘I believed his consciousness, all the things, he was simply… 17 and his first begin, he performed ridiculously good.
‘That may be a star, now and a star of the long run.
‘I believed with Yamal he was one of the best participant on the pitch.
‘He’s clearly fully totally different from [Carles] Puyol, [Gerard] Pique was sensible however I believe his long-range passing is healthier than both of these by far.
‘He’s distinctive, I believe he’s very particular, for 17 to play like that in a knockout recreation is uncommon.’
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Former England supervisor Glenn Hoddle, who was working as a pundit alongside Hargreaves for TNT Sports activities, added: ‘Unimaginable efficiency, that.
‘We watched him all evening, we have been so impressed with him.
‘Take a look at this for a cross, simply high quality, if that’s Ronald Koeman at his finest, unbelievable, for 17.
‘As a defender to have that maturity, to chop throughout folks, utilizing his physique to lean into them, he was shrewd, for 17 [he was playing] means above his age.’
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