Brentford striker Igor Thiago has said he watches videos of his Premier League Golden Boot rival Erling Haaland to help improve his game.
Thiago scored 22 goals for Brentford last season in a breakout campaign, five less than Haaland's league-high 27 goals.
The 25-year-old expects another tussle with the Norway international for the Golden Boot, and said João Pedro, Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike will also be in the mix.
"I think those are strikers that I like their style of play, what they deliver. I think watching them play I learn as well. And I've been learning. They inspire me too, and I mirror them too," Thiago said in an exclusive interview to ESPN Brazil.
"I watch a lot [of their matches] because I think that each one in their characteristics have things that I can add to my daily life as well," he added
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"I kept watching Haaland. Every game I was going to play I kept watching his videos so I could watch his movements on the field. Because it's not normal for a guy to score so many goals, it's not a coincidence for a guy to score so many goals like him.
"So I kept watching to find out what were the movements he was making so that I could do the same."
Thiago came up against Haaland at this summer's World Cup too, with the City forward scoring a brace to help Norway knock Brazil out of the tournament.
The Brentford striker was a surprise inclusion in Carlo Ancelotti's squad. He started their opening game against Morocco but didn't feature again in the World Cup. Following their round-of-16 exit, his place in the team received severe scrutiny and criticism.
Thiago, however, was unbothered by it as he said he doesn't look at social media.
"I was very at peace with everything, because it wasn't anyone, it wasn't a friend of mine who put me there, it was me who worked to be there. It was God who put me there. So, at all times I was calm," he said.
"And also my way of thinking is that I didn't steal anyone's place, so I won my own place there. So, that was one of the certainties that left me very relaxed to be able to spend all that time that I had in the national team."
Still only 25, Thiago feels his story is just starting and that he will only improve over time.
"When we see great centre forwards ... Harry Kane in his early 30s, Cristiano Ronaldo, in his 40s ... You see that, with the passage of time, the same things that maybe they went through back then that I experienced when I first went," he said.
"Today, they are different people, with more experience, so I think it's just the beginning of a beautiful journey that I have with the national jersey, so I hope."
Information from ESPN's João Castelo-Branco contributed to this report.
