Naby Keita vs Franck Kessié

2 African upcoming U21 CM prodigies.

Who's better now? Who's got more potential?

Are they both likely headed towards becoming Essien lite or Muntari lite?

Specially need opinions from Bundesfodders and Serie Zzz members.

Can't say anything on Keita.

On Kessie, the hype train is on. He really burst onto the scene in this first months in Serie A. He became a starter right away for Atalanta and has 6 goals and 1 assist so far from midfield. His choice of victim tells you that he is not shy as well, Lazio, Samp, Torino, Roma are there.

He is not a ball distributor, nor a pure destroyer, all box to box. Great dribbling and control, good ideas with the ball, good physicality and stamina.

At Atalanta he plays in 3-4-3 where Gagliardini covers and distributes, while he advances play. His runs into the box are good, Gomez (mostly) or Kurtic would beat their man and drag defenders for Kessie and the rest to run into space. Not that this is his only trick though, Gasperini decided to bench him vs Empoli this week so he could run at a tired defense later on and it worked perfectly. He scored the goal to tie it 1-1 and then created the second one to win it.

Since Chelsea has been linked to both, i have watched a few games of both.

Naby Keita really impressed in those short samples.