HARRY’S UP FOR A FIGHT
HIGH SPOT: Kane celebrates goal against Saints HARRY KANE enjoys a good shoot-out. Three seasons ago he saw off Sergio Aguero and Jamie Vardy to win the Golden Boot award for the Premier League’s top scorer.
A year later, Kane beat Romelu Lukaku, Alexis Sanchez and Diego Costa to retain the coveted trophy.
It took the genius of Mo Salah to deny him last season.
Even then, the England captain made up for it, beating Kylian Mbappe, Cristiano Ronaldo and Antoine Griezmann to finish the World Cup as top scorer.
So Kane is relishing yet another battle with his latest opponent, Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
The Gabon hitman tops the scoring charts with
10 goals, one ahead of Kane.
Aubameyang (below) struck twice on Sunday at the Emirates as the Gunners came out on top in the north London derby.
But Kane – who scored the first in a
3-1 win against Southampton on Wednesday – is ready to show his class.
“When you’ve done it on the biggest stage of them all, the World Cup, you can gain confidence from that,” he said.
“Since I’ve been in the Premier League it has had some of the best strikers in the world.
“Aubameyang is at the top end at the moment.
“There’s a few players on eight or nine goals so it’s important for me to carry on doing what I’m doing. There’s still a lot of the season to go, but when you set a standard year after year then maybe people aren’t so surprised when you score goals.
“If you score one goal then maybe people are expecting you to score two or three.
“I’m happy with where I’m at, I’ve been on good form. This is the sort of period I like where you get into a rhythm, so, yeah that helps.”
And on December 19 Kane will get the chance to avenge Spurs’ crushing 4-2 defeat at the hands of north London rivals Arsenal.
Ahead of that Carabao Cup quarter-final, Kane said: “Revenge is a strong word but we’ll be motivated.
“It was a heated derby, it’s what you want a derby to be like. You just don’t want to be on the losing end of it.
“It’s an opportunity for us to get one back if we can.”