Stop talking about players you haven't seen a single match of before they came to Italy.
I watched him play at least a dozen times for Madrid, plus both the U19 and U21 European Championships.
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First off, it is not an easy feat to score 30 goals with Ronaldo and Di Maria behind and it is not easy to start ahead of a world class player like Benzema. Morata himself played in a better Madrid and barely got to start and during those starts wasnt as impressive as Higuain used to be.
Second, his stats at Napoli are very good too.. that means nothing to you? The guy just scored a hattrick in the Europa-league for Gods sake.
Morata is definitely not yet at the level of Higuain. Knee-jerk at its finest.
Yeah. A hat trick at home against Dinamo. Real impressive. Context, mate. If he'd done against one of the big teams left in Europa, impressive. But Dinamo.
I'd take Morata's goal and assist against Dortmund in the CL Rof16 over Higauin's Europa hat trick against a minnow team, 99 times out of 100. And so should everyone.
Next...
In Serie A:
Higauin ~ 13 goals 5 assists in 1997 minutes. 1 goal every 153 minutes. 1 assist every 400 minutes.
Morata ~ 7 goals 4 assists in 986 minutes. 1 goal every 141 minutes. 1 assist every 246 minutes.
Yeah, Morata is there now. Especially over the past 6-8 weeks. Higauin doesn't defend, isn't strong outside the box, doesn't create his own chances, is a mediocre passer. He's a finisher. Morata does more. He creates chances for himself and others, he is an underrated passer, he can shoot from outside the box, he's good defensively, and has immense work rate, and so on.
Morata = Higauin