The similarity is see is the way Defoe used to drive with the ball from a wide position and then slam a shot - saw Johnson do that quite a bit last year.Nothing like Defoe mate. Defoe was about as pure of a poaching striker as has ever existed in football history. A last-man occupying instinctive finisher who plays off the shoulder constantly and shoots from the most wicked angles imaginable.
This guy is a winger in a 4-3-3 who runs at defenses and doesn’t even play Centre forward. The only player I’d actually compare favorably to Defoe in the past 20 years is Sergio Aguero. That’s how special JD was.