Tonight’s Champions League fixtures bring an exciting contest between the World Cup Golden Boot winner Harry Kane and the world’s most gifted striker of his generation, Lionel Messi. Harry Kane has established himself as a top scorer across Europe, hitting over 20 goals per season in the Premier League for four consecutive seasons. As England progressed to the semi-finals of the World Cup in Russia, it was Harry Kane that supplied the majority of the goals, further adding to his reputation for having an eye for goal.
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Kane wants to score goals more than Messi
In a pre-match interview leading up to the game against Barcelona, Kane has been discussing his personal ambitions and how he wants to emulate the feats of Messi. Kane said: “He’s definitely set the standard for the rest of us and it motivates me to get even better. Hopefully one day I can score as many, if not more than he has.”
At 25, Harry Kane has scored 145 goals for Tottenham, whilst Messi has hit 560 goals in 646 games for Barcelona, so Kane will certainly need to up his scoring rate if he is ever going to catch Messi’s haul. However, tonight Kane can show the world what he is capable of and whether he is up to the job of taking over as the top striker in Europe. It was Mo Salah that pushed Messi (and Benfica’s Jonas) all of the way for the Golden Shoe last season but Salah has not hit form yet this season.
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Team news
Tottenham is without a number of their top players going into this game, with Eriksen, Dembele, Vertonghen, Alli, and Aurier all out of the clash with Barcelona. Goalkeeper Hugo Lloris is set to come back into the team after a long injury absence.
Barcelona is missing Roberto and Umtiti for the game. Samuel Umtiti misses the game through suspension after he was red-carded in their last Champions League outing against PSV Eindhoven.
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Head to head
The two teams have not played against each other since 1982, where the first leg of the European Cup Winners Cup was tied before Barcelona beat Tottenham 1-0 in Spain.
