[서울신문] Heung-min Son added help amid bad luck, Asian player’s first EPL attack point 100

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▲ Son Heung-min (Tottenham) is looking for the movement of a fellow player to head for the 19th round of the English Premier League match against Sheffield’s Brammol Lane on the 17th (local time).
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Son Heung-min (29, Tottenham) added help and raised his 100th attacking point in his career in the English Professional Football Premier League (EPL). This is my first time as an Asian player. The scoring cannon did not burst as it was blocked by the goal post for two consecutive games.

Son Heung-min helped Sergio Orier’s header opening goal with a 5-minute corner kick in the regular league round 19 away game against Sheffield United on the 17th (local time) at Bramole Lane in Sheffield, England. It is Son Heung-min’s 18th league (12 goals and 6 assists) this season and the 25th (16 goals and 9 assists) in the official game.

With this help, Son Heung-min, wearing a Tottenham uniform in 2015, entered the EPL, scored 65 goals and 35 assists in the regular league, filling 100 attack points in the league. According to Opta, a website specializing in soccer statistics, the 100 EPL attack points are the first Asian players and the seventh for Tottenham.

With the opening goal set by Son Heung-min, Tottenham defeated Sheffield 3-1, continuing undefeated in 4 league games (2 wins, 2 draws) and climbed to 4th place (33 points). Tottenham showed a tremendous sluggishness of 3 draws and 4 losses in the league away game against Sheffield, winning 3 valuable points after 8 games and 45 years after December 1975.

In a situation where he ended up in a draw with Fulham, the lower-ranking team in the last round, and had been struggling in Sheffield in many ways, Tottenham struck him with a starting three-top of Son Heung-min-Kane-Steven Berchbain from the beginning. In the 4th minute of the first half, Berchbain’s right-footed shot from the right of the penalty arc, which had passed with Kane, was saved by goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale. In the following left corner kick situation, Son Heung-min, who came out as the kicker, made the correct cross, and Orie jumped in the goal area and the ball received from the head shook the net.

Son Heung-min directly aimed for the goal by connecting Kane’s pass with an exquisite chip shot from the right side of the penalty area in the 8th minute of the first half, but hitting the goal left a regret. It was another’goal bad luck’ following the last Fulham battle.

Tottenham led the trend, but Sheffield began to crack down on Tottenham’s defense little by little as time passed. In the 29th minute of the first half, John Fleck’s pass followed by Oliver Burke’s right-footed shot from the right of the penalty arc shot the first ball into the front of Loris goalkeeper.

However, Tottenham continued their lead in the 40th minute on the back of Kane’s extra goal. On the Tottenham side, Emil Pierre Hoivier cut the opponent’s pass, handed the ball to Son Heung-min shortly, then picked it up and stabbed the pass. It is Kane’s 12th league goal this season.

Tottenham, who had an overwhelming share of 61-39 in the first half, gave up little by little in the second half, but allowed a heading goal to David McGoldrick in the 14th minute. Ndombele, who exchanged the ball with Berchbain and penetrated the left side of the penalty area, was under check by opponents, and a right-footed roving shot from a tricky posture hit the right corner of the goal.

With this goal, Sheffield’s willingness to pursue was completely broken, and Son Heung-min received a pass from Kane in the 32nd minute of the second half and aimed at the goal again with a strong shot with a right foot left in the penalty area, but was caught in defense. After entering the extra time in the second half, Son Heung-min replaced Carlos Vinicius and left the ground.

Byung-seon Lim, Secretary General, Peace Research Institute [email protected]

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