I know me, BC, and other Argentines constantly support him but he gets way too much hate IMO. Undeserved most of the time.


He is quietly rebuilding his career after the dog abuse he got at coppa america.

Elite strikers don't constantly choke in the most important games.

Fantastic technique for the goal tonight with his weaker foot against a great GK in a big match.

Contributed a lot in the build up play and also pressed from the front often to steal the ball away.

He's a very good striker, but I think it's been proven time and time again that he's not elite (on the level of Benz, Suarez, Lewa, etc).

Higuain has been ridiculously cherry-picked on failing on some moments to which have equally also been replicated in him performing in big games against big teams. Best example was the CA final in which this forum chastised him for a chance that was out of his physical reach and failed to note his positioning within that chance.

Courtesy of the Madrid: Benzema v Higuain debate that has raged on within GL for years, his some underwhelming performances against big moments have been magnified on this forum given it has been used as a consistent crux in support of the debate in favour for Benzema, hence why it all his failures in some big matches are far far more scrutinized then other strikers as it is similar to Zlatan's failures in some CL matches despite his record and countless performances within the CL.

People who watch Higuain regularly will note since his move to Napoli, he has become far more than just an in box striker and has turned into very complete CF who uses both feet regularly to assist, create and hold the ball to bring in a flat midfield into play that has been the crux of a Napoli forward line under Rafa and Saari. This is a man with an average midfield like Napoli has taken the game upon his shoulder numerous times and quite frankly is heavily underrated on this forum.

Yes, he must perform in some bigger moments such as that penalty in the CA and be more consistent within certain moments in bigger stages yet the balance that tips against him is just ruthless and quite frankly uncalled for.

Easily a World Class centre forward.

Arquitescu wrote:Higuain has been ridiculously cherry-picked on failing on some moments to which have equally also been replicated in him performing in big games against big teams. Best example was the CA final in which this forum chastised him for a chance that was out of his physical reach and failed to note his positioning within that chance.

Courtesy of the Madrid: Benzema v Higuain debate that has raged on within GL for years, his some underwhelming performances against big moments have been magnified on this forum given it has been used as a consistent crux in support of the debate in favour for Benzema, hence why it all his failures in some big matches are far far more scrutinized then other strikers as it is similar to Zlatan's failures in some CL matches despite his record and countless performances within the CL.

People who watch Higuain regularly will note since his move to Napoli, he has become far more than just an in box striker and has turned into very complete CF who uses both feet regularly to assist, create and hold the ball to bring in a flat midfield into play that has been the crux of a Napoli forward line under Rafa and Saari. This is a man with an average midfield like Napoli has taken the game upon his shoulder numerous times and quite frankly is heavily underrated on this forum.

Yes, he must perform in some bigger moments such as that penalty in the CA and be more consistent within certain moments in bigger stages yet the balance that tips against him is just ruthless and quite frankly uncalled for.

Easily a World Class centre forward.

look who's back .

i don't think anyone doubted Higuain's  abilities as a striker, people always criticized him for chocking in the big stage .
how many goals in the CL ? how many goals in a gazilion classicos ? how many missed one on ones in decisive games ?   CA final , WC final , play off against Bilbao , penalty against Lazio for the CL spot last year , open goal miss vs Lyon , one on one miss vs Dortmund etc..

Arq ffs start posting again you pos

Arquitescu wrote:Higuain has been ridiculously cherry-picked on failing on some moments to which have equally also been replicated in him performing in big games against big teams. Best example was the CA final in which this forum chastised him for a chance that was out of his physical reach and failed to note his positioning within that chance.

Courtesy of the Madrid: Benzema v Higuain debate that has raged on within GL for years, his some underwhelming performances against big moments have been magnified on this forum given it has been used as a consistent crux in support of the debate in favour for Benzema, hence why it all his failures in some big matches are far far more scrutinized then other strikers as it is similar to Zlatan's failures in some CL matches despite his record and countless performances within the CL.

People who watch Higuain regularly will note since his move to Napoli, he has become far more than just an in box striker and has turned into very complete CF who uses both feet regularly to assist, create and hold the ball to bring in a flat midfield into play that has been the crux of a Napoli forward line under Rafa and Saari. This is a man with an average midfield like Napoli has taken the game upon his shoulder numerous times and quite frankly is heavily underrated on this forum.

Yes, he must perform in some bigger moments such as that penalty in the CA and be more consistent within certain moments in bigger stages yet the balance that tips against him is just ruthless and quite frankly uncalled for.

Easily a World Class centre forward.

The pre-hernia Higuaín was that.

Never was and never will be for me personally

De i why do you not rate your twin brother?

Tend to agree with Devi. He looked excellent against Juve's B team honestly, but was cack when they were at their best in past seasons. He's stat padded against us too in the past due to our defense being shite as well.

What makes an elite level striker is that they always find a way to get the ball in the back of net, no matter what it takes. I'm not sure Higuain is at that level.....yet.

DeviAngel wrote:Never was and never will be for me personally

He's basically you with 1000000x the money.

Don't be jelly bro

He's a top striker but I'd not trust him in a big game. Talent wise he '' deserves '' better than Napoli tho.

The Napoli that should be in the CL if it wasnt for his failure ?

LeBéninois wrote:He's a top striker but I'd not trust him in a big game. Talent wise he '' deserves '' better than Napoli tho.

Scored against Juventus yesterday, twice against Lazio last week, scored again twice in the Super Cup against Juventus (plus scored his penalty), scored against Fiorentina, Roma, Lazio home and away twice, against Inter, against Milan. Before that when Napoli were in the big stage, in 5 games he scored 4 goals in the group of death including Arsenal and Dortmund. And I'm ignoring the several big games where Higuain has contributed with excellent build up play, movement and assists.

This myth should stop. Higuain has performed in the big games for 2 almost 3 years now. (Apart from when he plays with Argentina, except that Messi, Aguero, Tevez are all the same).

zizzle wrote:The Napoli that should be in the CL if it wasnt for his failure ?

Bullshit.

Higuain put a crap Napoli in that position in the first place, they didn't deserve CL.

Is he better than Benzema though ?

urbaNRoots wrote:

LeBéninois wrote:He's a top striker but I'd not trust him in a big game. Talent wise he '' deserves '' better than Napoli tho.

Scored against Juventus yesterday, twice against Lazio last week, scored again twice in the Super Cup against Juventus (plus scored his penalty), scored against Fiorentina, Roma, Lazio home and away twice, against Inter, against Milan. Before that when Napoli were in the big stage, in 5 games he scored 4 goals in the group of death including Arsenal and Dortmund. And I'm ignoring the several big games where Higuain has contributed with excellent build up play, movement and assists.

This myth should stop. Higuain has performed in the big games for 2 almost 3 years now. (Apart from when he plays with Argentina, except that Messi, Aguero, Tevez are all the same).

zizzle wrote:The Napoli that should be in the CL if it wasnt for his failure ?

Bullshit.

Higuain put a crap Napoli in that position in the first place, they didn't deserve CL.

scoring against the likes of roma and Juve in mid season doesn't exactly dispel "the myth" .
what about his extensive record of flopping in the CL and in classicos with Madrid ? what about the horrible miss against Bilbao in the CL play off l? the missed penalty vs Lazio ? his horrendous misses against dortmund in the 3-1 defeat that proved decisive in knocking Napoli out of the competition ?

just because he scored in some mickey mouse cups and some mid-season games doesn't mean he's not a serial chock artist under pressure .

4 goals in 5 games the last time he was in the CL and that in the the group of death.

Goals against the CL finalist and CL level team Roma not relevant

Whatever floats your boat.

urbaNRoots wrote:4 goals in 5 games the last time he was in the CL and that in the the group of death.

so ? he still flopped in Dortmund which proved costly .

and what about his performance last year in the semis against Dnipro or whatever they're called ? every time expectations were high and pressure was on the team to deliver ,he failed .

urbaNRoots wrote:

Whatever floats your boat.

do i need to explain that the pressure of a CL KO match , a decisive play off , a world cup final etc... is much higher and challenging that some game against juventus in match day 18 ?

Andrew_p wrote:Is he better than Benzema though ?

Please refrain from de-railing this thread

BarrileteCosmico wrote:

Andrew_p wrote:Is he better than Benzema though ?

Please refrain from de-railing this thread

Maybe he thinks Benzema is at the bottom of elite, and Higuain needs to better than the worst elite striker. Therefor it's relevant to this thread

Wow so Higuain should be blamed for a game in which Napoli were obviously robbed

And you chose to ignore that it was Higuain's goals who put Napoli in the semi in the first place.