Son Heung-min (31, Tottenham), the Korean soccer ace, finally took off his mask, but he couldn’t stop the team from losing.
In the English Premier League (EPL) 18th round match against Aston Villa held at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England at 11.00pm (Korean time) on the 1st, Tottenham conceded consecutive goals to Buendia and Douglas Lewis and lost 0-2. With this, Tottenham remained in 5th place in the league.
Son Heung-min, who started that day, started the game wearing a mask, but took off his mask in anger when the ball went off the field after being stolen by Tottenham 19 minutes into the first half. The moment Son Heung-min took off his mask and threw it, the stadium filled with applause. Son Heung-min played the game without a mask until the end of the game, but he could not register an attack point.
He appears to have not fully recovered yet, but Son Heung-min’s recovery is expected to be imminent as he has played without a mask for the first time since his orbital fracture injury. However, despite this injury struggle, Son Heung-min only had 2 shots and 1 shot on target, exposing his slow performance. Ratings were inevitably low in the 4-6 range.
It is not an easy situation due to injuries, but at the moment Tottenham have no choice but to lean on Son Heung-min. This is because, after Richarlison and Moura, Kulusevski got injured and the attacking team, except for Son Heung-min and Kane, were wiped out. For Tottenham, last season’s Son Heung-min who won the EPL top scorer is desperately needed, but Son Heung-min has been scoreless in the league since the game against Leicester City (hat-trick) on 18 September last year and was unable to improve on his form.
Tottenham are playing a match away at Crystal Palace at 5am on the 5th, and attention is turning to the possibility that Son Heung-min will be able to break the slow rush and launch the first celebration of the new year.
