Juventus will play host to Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League tomorrow night.
Former Juve ace Fabrizio Ravanelli sat down for an exclusive interview with Corriere della Sera, and insisted that Gonzalo Higuain is better than Spurs hitman Harry Kane, although he did offer high words of praise for the Englishman.
Higuain, 30, joined the Old Lady from Napoli in the summer of 2016, for a fee believed to be worth in the region of £78 million, and he has gone on to score 50 goals in 86 games for the Italian giants.
Kane, meanwhile, finished 2017 as the continent’s most prolific goalscorer, chalking up 56 goals in the calendar year. He has been on fire for Tottenham this season, scoring 32 goals in 33 appearances in all competitions, and many believe that he is Europe’s best out-and-out striker.
Ravanelli, though, does not agree with hat notion.
The 49-year-old, who scored 41 league goals for Juve during a four-year spell with the Turin club, opted for the Argentine, when asked who is better out of the two strikers, as quoted by Corriere della Sera:
“The Englishman is a true champion and a complete player. He is very good at raising the overall level of his team, though maybe he can improve in the air. I still prefer Higuaín. At the moment, he is proving to be fundamental in Juve’s general play and in the build-up phase. He seems to be a more clinical player in the box, though they are both great strikers.”
Tomorrow’s clash in Turin will be an intriguing one, and both team’s chances of progressing through to the quarter-finals will likely depend heavily on who performs better out of Kane and Higuain.
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