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Boss Old Footballer Showdown Part Three: Hernan Crespo vs Gabriel Batistuta vs Christian Vieri

Who wins the showdown?

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I'm happy that one of my shouts for this ws included (Vieri). As he's one of my fave strikers of all time, like Luca Toni without the match-fixing. Still plumped for Batistuta though, some player him. Crespo unfonrtunately always reminds me of the CL final in Istanbul, as good as his finish was.
 
Batistuta is out in front, and Vieri is quite a way ahead of Crespo for me, as when he was at Inter he could be regarded as the best centre forward in the world. Crespo was never close to that, and I'd put Shevchenko, Raul and Shearer above him from strikers of that era.
 

Batistuta out of the three. Vieri a close second. But Marco Van Basten was head and shoulders above all of them. One of the greatest goal machines ever to grace the Italian league in my humble opinion.
 
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I guess one measure of a player is how much better they were than their peers. When Crespo won the top scorer prize in Serie A, he beat the 2nd placed player (Shevchenko) by 2 goals. When Batigol won it, he beat Balbo by 4 goals. When Vieri won it, he beat Inzaghi by 7 goals, which incidentally was the same as when van Basten last won it (from Baggio).
 
Bruce Wayne said:
I guess one measure of a player is how much better they were than their peers. When Crespo won the top scorer prize in Serie A, he beat the 2nd placed player (Shevchenko) by 2 goals. When Batigol won it, he beat Balbo by 4 goals. When Vieri won it, he beat Inzaghi by 7 goals, which incidentally was the same as when van Basten last won it (from Baggio).
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Vieri was a great goalscorer, but Batistuta was also a scorer of great goals, and a great team player, he had everything. I know Fergie tried to sign him for Man Utd several times, and he would have brilliant there at that time.
 

Easy one this, and you knew it @ijjysmith !

Batigol all the way, one of the all time greats. I miss strikers like that, scoring every type of goal. Could shoot from anywhere so always were a threat. Loved Crespo and Vieri also though. Imagine being as good as Vieri....just wandering around clubs and banging them in wherever he goes without ever seeming arsed. Saw him score at Landsdowne Road in a friendly once. Maybe somebody could confirm when that was. It was a cracker from distance I think. Always thought Shearer, as odious as he seems, was very like Vieri too in his style.

Falcao looked like that type of a striker until his body gave up. Big shame.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
Batistuta is out in front, and Vieri is quite a way ahead of Crespo for me, as when he was at Inter he could be regarded as the best centre forward in the world. Crespo was never close to that, and I'd put Shevchenko, Raul and Shearer above him from strikers of that era.
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Yeah, I'd probably say the same. I don't think Crespo was as prolific and dangerous as the others. Could be wrong stats-wise on how prolific he was. Still absolutely brilliant though.
 
hallamblue said:
Vieri was a great goalscorer, but Batistuta was also a scorer of great goals, and a great team player, he had everything. I know Fergie tried to sign him for Man Utd several times, and he would have brilliant there at that time.
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Again...Mr Van Basten. Fast, tall, fearless, very skilful, intelligent, two footed and great with his head...THE ultimate striker.
 
When Serie A was boss. When the champions league and international football still had an edge of mystery about it. Loved the 90s (apart from Everton bring garbage).

Batistuta all day long.
 

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