YES, BOTH ARE LETHAL BUT HARRY’S NO BRUTE

HARRY KANE is like Gabriel Batistuta in two respects: immense shooting power and a devastating ability to win matches.

I locked horns with Batistuta in 1999 when Arsenal played Fiorentina at Wembley in the Champions League. He was one of the best strikers I faced.

Like Kane, Batistuta could score goals from almost any position.

Give him an inch of space and he would punish you.

He struck the winner that night at Wembley, darting into the box before rifling an unstoppable shot across David Seaman into the top corner from the tightest of angles.

Kane said he did not mean his cross-shot against Everton but Mauricio Pochettino will have been reminded of his former Argentina team-mate’s ability to conjure something from nothing.

Where they differ is in their physicality. I enjoyed the roughand-tumble of battling Batistuta. He was more like Diego Costa than Kane. If you nailed him in a challenge, you knew he was going to get you back. While Kane is not lacking physically, he does not get drawn into those personal battles.

But as lethal predators, the similarities between the two are uncanny.