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Everton striker Calvert-Lewin: I've been studying Pippo Inzaghi

Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin admits he studies the goalscoring game of Italian great Pippo Inzaghi.

Calvert-Lewin hopes to lead the line for England at the Euros this month.

He said, “I've always studied the game but was more inclined to look at Inzaghi after the gaffer mentioned the similarities.

'I was too young to remember him putting them in the back of the net but that's what YouTube is for. I looked at him and ways to improve."

Asked if that makes him an old-fashioned goal-hanger as opposed to the increasingly- fashionable false number nine, Calvert-Lewin argues he is a bit of both.

“Are you suggesting all I do is put the ball in the net?" he responded with a grin. “If you check the stats, because the stats don't lie, I cover quite a lot of distance.

“All people said before I scored goals was I ran around too much. Now people are saying I don't run around enough. You can't please everybody!

“I don't pigeon-hole myself as any particular type. The tools I've got - and I still need to fine-tune all of them - mean I can do many different things."

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