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Heskey thinks Coutinho can match Messi and Ronaldo

Last Sunday at Emirates Stadium, Philippe Coutinho gave a master class against Arsenal in which he scored a brace and was a constant danger for the Gunners' defensive line. The free-kick he scored was simply amazing and overall he was the best player of that match. This has sparked a lot of good reviews after his performance, one of the people who liked him the most was former striker Emile Heskey who talking to Omnisport dared to compare him with Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. 

Clearly a little over excited with the Brazilian, Heskey said: "I think he's got the ability to [match Messi and Ronaldo]. I think he's got just as much ability as them and we've seen it in spurts. We need to see it more on a constant level now. His skills are phenomenal. I've seen it when he was at Inter and some of the videos that you see from there in training ... wow. He's a phenomenal player. And some of his visions... You know when you are closing someone down and you think that you've got him and he does a trick and you're wondering 'how did he actually do that and how did he know I was coming in behind him?' You're thinking he's got eyes in the back of his head. He's got that sort of vision.

"Those players come round only once in a lifetime really. He's a phenomenal player. That's why he's going to have teams interested in him, but he is a massively important player to Liverpool. Some of the stuff that he does you're like 'this is a young lad'. [He's] still young now to be fair, but he needs to take it to that next level. I believe he can do that, but it's a mentality thing not a talent thing. Mentality wise that's where we have to question it."

Photo credit: Liverpool FC

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