{"id":916004,"date":"2026-06-28T13:13:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T18:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/suarez-i-prefer-kane-over-haaland\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T13:13:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T18:13:21","slug":"suarez-i-prefer-kane-over-haaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/suarez-i-prefer-kane-over-haaland\/","title":{"rendered":"Suarez: I prefer Kane over Haaland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.performgroup.com\/di\/library\/omnisport\/6c\/98\/harry-kane_yt5wgz7u2fdo19mkzdygol0p1.jpg?t=240682287\" alt=\"Soccer Suarez: I prefer Kane over Haaland\">\n                        <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soccernews.com\/english-premier-league\/\"><br \/>\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.soccernews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/soccer-news\/img\/tn-icon.svg\" alt=\"Soccer competition icon\"><br \/>\n                                    Premier League News                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Syndicated reporting provided by Stats Perform and reviewed by the SoccerNews editorial team.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Luis Suarez revealed he prefers Harry Kane over Erling Haaland as a striker as the Bayern Munich forward &#8220;understands the game differently&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kane and Haaland have become two of the most prolific strikers in Europe&#8217;s top five leagues over recent years; Kane has scored the most goals across all competitions among players in the top five European leagues over the last three seasons (146), while Haaland has scored the third-most (110, Kylian Mbappe has 130).<\/p>\n<p>Not including the Club World Cup, Kane has scored 61 goals in all competitions this season, more than any other player across Europe&#8217;s top five leagues, while overperforming his expected goals (44.4 xG) by 16.6. He averaged a goal every 66.4 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, with 27 Premier League goals in 2025-26, Haaland won his third Premier League Golden Boot in four seasons with Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>He is the fifth player to win the award as many times, after Thierry Henry (four), Mohamed Salah (four), Alan Shearer (three) and Kane (three).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Let&#8217;s take a look at our very own <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ErlingHaaland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ErlingHaaland<\/a>&#8216;s finest moments from the 25\/26 season \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RvjkFoPVqc\">pic.twitter.com\/RvjkFoPVqc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ManCity\/status\/2070561988904722509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Both strikers won two trophies this season (Kane \u2013 Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, Haaland \u2013 EFL Cup, FA Cup), though Suarez believes the two frontmen can be separated.<\/p>\n<p>Suarez told Mundo Deportivo: &#8220;I have two or three [differences].<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Haaland is a lethal number nine in the box, although the team has to play for him. I prefer Harry Kane. He links up much better with the rest of the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He makes movements thinking about a team-mate&#8217;s counter-movement, he understands the game differently. I love those kinds of details.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soccernews.com\/suarez-i-prefer-kane-over-haaland\/401153\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>SoccerNews Editorial Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Premier League News Syndicated reporting provided by Stats Perform and reviewed by the SoccerNews editorial team. Luis Suarez revealed he prefers Harry Kane over Erling Haaland as a striker as the Bayern Munich forward &#8220;understands the game differently&#8221;. Kane and Haaland have become two of the most prolific strikers in Europe&#8217;s top five leagues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":916005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32733,2005,81706],"tags":[15192,111289],"class_list":["post-916004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-prefer","category-soccer","category-suarez","tag-prefer","tag-suarez"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}