‘Boxing Day’ ahead of the Asian Cup… Son Heung-min and Hwang Hee-chan participate in the A match. Son Heung-min and Hwang Hee-chan participate in the A match. [중국 선전=연합뉴스]
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Ahead of the Asian Cup, European players are joining the national soccer team one by one, but Son Heung-min and Hwang Hee-chan, who are playing on the EPL stage, are in the middle of their season.
Attention is being paid to whether he will be able to handle the so-called ‘Boxing Day’ period schedule, when games are concentrated around Christmas, without injury.
This is reporter Kwak Jun-young.
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About 15 days before the opening of the Asian Cup, Son Heung-min and Hwang Hee-chan, the core of Klinsmann’s attack, are busy completing their year-end schedule.
First, Wolverhampton’s Hwang Hee-chan will play in the away game against Brentford in the early morning of the 28th, followed by the home game against Everton at midnight on the 30th, two days later.
Hwang Hee-chan is still the team’s top scorer with 8 league goals, but has not scored a goal in 3 games.
As he recently renewed his contract as the team’s highest paid player, attention is being paid to whether he will repay the club and fans by scoring goals.
The team, which won for the first time in a long time against Chelsea, is aiming for a consecutive win.
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“We will be more tired than Brentford because they didn’t have a game but we had a big game. That doesn’t make any excuses. Let’s see how we handle the game.”
Son Heung-min also has a tight schedule ahead of him, playing two games at the end of this year.
Tottenham will face Brighton away in the early morning of the 29th and at home against Bournemouth on the night of the 31st.
Son Heung-min, who tied for 4th in the scoring rankings with his 11th league goal against Everton, will attempt to score consecutive goals against Brighton.
The ‘mini-Korea-Japan match’, which attracted a lot of attention, is unlikely to take place due to the injury of Brighton’s Japan national team player Mitoma.
Instead, in the next game against Bournemouth, the goal-scoring battle with Solanke, who has risen to second place in scoring with 12 goals in the league, is expected to be the main attraction.
Attention is focused on whether Son Heung-min and Hwang Hee-chan will finish the year 2023 with a cool goal fireworks without any injuries.
This is Kwak Jun-young from Yonhap News TV. kwak_ka@yna.co.kr
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2023-12-27 08:23:17
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