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Jurgen Klopp has hailed Liverpool's Roberto Firmino as being the most similar centre-forward in the Premier League to Harry Kane - but insists his Brazilian ace is unconcerned about how many goals he scores.

Kane has won the Premier League's Golden Boot for the past two seasons and he leads the top flight's scoring charts again as Tottenham head to Anfield this Sunday with 21 goals.

His current total is two ahead of his closest challenger Mohamed Salah of Liverpool who currently has 19.

While Salah has been operating from the wing, Firmino has been leading the line for the Reds having previously been considered more of an attacking midfielder at previous club Hoffenheim.

Klopp scoffs at any suggestions that Firmino is a so-called 'false' number nine though and believes he shares many attributes with English football's leading marksman.

He said: “That (the 'false' number nine tag) is only because you have to give specific things certain names so actually I don't care.

“If you see Harry Kane playing, he is all over the pitch, he is getting the ball deep.

“Of all the strikers we have in England, they are the most similar – they're everywhere.

“Harry is more coming from the 9 and a little bit on the 10 while Roberto is coming from the 10 and doing a bit more but is also a 9, he's just so important for us.”

Klopp believes that Firmino's all-round game makes him stand out among his peers when it comes to assessing the various merits of Premier League strikers.

He said: “You realise it the day after the game when you look at the figures and see 'wow, what a number of high sprints and high distance runs'.

“When you look at him in training the next day it's all good, he walks normal. On the second day of recovery he looks fresh again.

“That makes him so special, he's always ready. That makes him an interesting package as a football player because he's not fixed on a position.”

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Kane needs just one more goal to reach his century in the Premier League having so far bagged 99 in 139 appearances.

Since Firmino arrived from the Bundesliga, the Spurs man has outscored him 75-32 in the Premier League but unlike many frontmen who get by on a selfish streak, Klopp insists that his own player is just as happy to set up a chance for a Reds team-mate.

He said: “Roberto's desire to score is big but to be honest he doesn't really give a s*** over whether he passes the ball or scores himself, it makes no difference, and that's rare, you cannot tell somebody that.

“As a manager you say 'if you score or you make the goal or you prepared it or you made the cross for me it's no problem, no difference', but for players of course it's a difference.

“Being the kind of character I am, a player winning a challenge or a counter press is like scoring in a specific moment.”