Former Bournemouth midfielder Joe Partington heaped reward on Eli Junior Kroupi after his goal in opposition to Arsenal on Saturday and described the 19-year-old as considered one of “the world’s best teenage goalscorers”.
Kroupi’s opener within the 2-1 win made him the primary teenager to rating 10 targets in his maiden Premier League season since Robbie Keane for Coventry in 1999-2000.
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Speaking on the Cherries Unpicked podcast, Partington mentioned: “He knows where the goal is. He’s got an eye for it. He sniffs out chances. He’s in the right place at the right time and he has the technique and conviction to take those chances.
“He appears to prop up in these positions the place he can rating all forms of targets. That one [against Arsenal] was a tap-in due to his motion, however you additionally give him a yard outdoors the field and he can nestle one within the high nook.
“Bournemouth are lucky to have him. The recruitment team have done a really good job of finding these young players that are ready for Premier League football. Not all 19-year-olds can come into the team and play and certainly contribute as he has done.
“[It’s a] actual enormous profit for the soccer membership, I do know that we have misplaced gamers over the previous few years and will proceed to accomplish that sooner or later. That’s simply the character of the beast, I suppose, however in the meanwhile, in Junior Kroupi, we have got considered one of Europe’s, which by extension might be the world’s, greatest teenage goalscorers.”
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