Liverpool and Premier League legend Michael Owen has found himself raving about one Arsenal youngster.
The former Ballon d'Or winner and ex-England forward was watching Aidy Boothroyd's young Three Lions side in action at Molineux on Tuesday night when Eddie Nketiah left him singing the 21-year-old's praises.
The young Gunners star scored twice against Albania U21, either side of a missed penalty that failed to dent his confidence.
And it is that ability to keep faith in his goalscoring abilities that Owen says separates him from his competitors.
“He’s very good,” Owen, who knows a thing or two about scoring goals, told BT Sport. “He’s got a real smell for it, hasn’t he? He knows where the ball’s going to drop.
"I like his movement and I like his hunger to score goals," he continued.
“Some players are confidence players. If you miss a penalty and you’re a confidence player, you go missing all game. If you’ve just got pure self-belief, it just shrugs off you and you’re just onto the next one."
Nketiah has already made 50 appearances for Arsenal in all competitions, many from the bench, scoring 10 goals along the way.
And Owen has predicted that, once his full potential is reached, he will be Arsenal's main goalscoring threat.
But regular outings under Mikel Arteta are needed to bring the best out of the forward.
“With that type of attitude, with the way he plays, he’s just going to be a goal machine all his career," he continued.
"The key for him is obviously trying to get consistently into that Arsenal team, and then all his horizons are open.”
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