Son Heung-min in Pursuit of Consecutive Goals with EPL Milestone of 100 Goals – Should I Impress Klinsmann with Fireblowing? (Yonhap News)

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jang Bo-in = Son Heung-min (Tottenham), who has scored 100 goals in the English professional football Premier League (EPL), aims straight for the 101st goal.

Tottenham will play the 2022-2023 EPL round 31 home game against Bournemouth at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England at 11:00 pm (hereinafter Korean time) on the 15th.

Despite the controversy over his sluggish performance this season, Son Heung-min, who is in charge of one axis of Tottenham’s attack, aims for the 8th goal in the league against Bournemouth.

Son Heung-min scored another record in the previous match against Brighton (Tottenham won 2-1).

He shook the net with a ‘proprietary’ right-footed kick shot near the left side of the penalty arc and scored his 100th goal in his EPL career.

The 100th EPL goal is the 34th ever and the first ever for an Asian player.

After wearing the Tottenham uniform in August 2015, Son Heung-min, who scored 100 goals and 50 assists in the league until this year, continues to warm his toes.

If Son Heung-min also scores a goal against Bournemouth, it will be the first time in the league this season to score in two consecutive matches.

With 8 regular league games remaining, attention is focusing on whether Son Heung-min, who is good at ‘running’, will make a spurt at the end of the season.

If he adds 3 goals in the remaining games with 7 goals and 4 assists in the current league, he will record double-digit EPL scores for 7 consecutive seasons from the 2016-2017 season.

If you score 4 goals, you can surpass Cristiano Ronaldo (Al Nasr, 103 goals) and stand shoulder to shoulder with Didier Drogba (104 goals) as the joint 31st in all-time scoring.

Son Heung-min will play this match in front of the Korean national football team’s coach Jurgen Klinsmann.

Head coach Klinsman visits England, Scotland, Italy and Germany this month to check the European national team, and Son Heung-min is the first to start.

Manager Klinsman, who played an active role at Tottenham in the 1994-1995 season and 1997-1998 season during his active career, is also Son Heung-min’s ‘Tottenham senior’.

Son Heung-min has already pleased his seniors once by scoring the first and second goals of the newly launched Klinsmann in the evaluation match against Colombia (2-2 draw) during the A match last month.

Just as Son Heung-min is aiming for consecutive goals, Tottenham is aiming for two consecutive wins.

Tottenham, 5th in the league (53 points), must diligently accumulate points to enter the’Top 4’, where the right to participate in the UEFA Champions League.

Bournemouth sit in 15th place (30 points), but as they also need points to stay away from the relegation zone, they are an opponent to watch out for.

At the same time, 13th place Wolverhampton (31 points), played by Hwang Hee-chan, faces 9th place Brentford (43 points) at home.

Hwang Hee-chan, who has been absent due to recent injuries, was substituted for the match against Chelsea on the 8th and made a comeback after 3 games, challenging Brentford for the second goal in the league.

Coach Klinsman does not directly watch Hwang Hee-chan’s game during his visit to Europe due to scheduling issues.

boin@yna.co.kr

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