Son Heung-min (29, Tottenham) built another golden tower.
Son Heung-min helped Sergio Orier’s heading opening goal in the 5th minute in the away game against Sheffield United in the 19th round of the English Premier League (EPL) in the 2020-21 season held at Bremole Lane in Sheffield, England on the 17th (Korean time). did. Tottenham beat Sheffield 3-1 by adding Orier’s goal, Harry Kane’s extra goal in the 40th minute, and Tanggi Ndombele’s key goal in the 17th minute of the second half. Tottenham, who added 3 points as a victory on this day, finished 5th with 9 wins, 6 draws and 3 losses (33 points).
Three goals were scored, but there was no goal from Son Heung-min’s toe. Once again after the last Fulham game, the shot hit the goal and was blocked by bad luck. In the 8th minute counterattack situation in the first half, Son Heung-min received a pass from Kane and fired an exquisite chip shot aiming at the space behind the goalkeeper. The ball hit the right goal post and bounced. If the goal was reached, he could be co-leader with Mohamed Salah (Liverpool, 13 goals), the top scorer.
Even if there was no score, Son Heung-min’s performance was brilliant. Son Heung-min, who helped Orrie’s goal that day, scored his sixth help in the league this season alone, filling 100 EPL career attack points since joining Tottenham in 2015. During his six seasons for Tottenham, he accumulated 65 goals in the regular league and 35 assists.
– – According to Opta, a website specializing in soccer statistics, Son Heung-min’s 100 EPL attack points is the first Asian player and the seventh record for Tottenham. Previously, Kane (186, 225 games, 155 goals, 31 assists), Teddy Sheringham (141, 236 games, 97 goals, 44 help), Robbie Keane (115 games, 238 games, 91 goals, 24 assistance), Christian Ericsen (113) Only 226 games, 51 goals and 62 aids), Jermaine Defoe (110, 276 games, 91 goals, 19 aids), and Darren Anderton (102, 299 games, 34 goals and 68 aids) achieved more than 100 attack points.
This season, Son Heung-min is making a’career high’. From the second round of the league against Southampton, he scored 4 goals in a game and set the record for the most goals scored in an individual game with his first hat-trick after advancing to the EPL, predicting the best condition. In the fourth round of Manchester United, he achieved 100 goals in his career in the European League. With a steeper scoring pace than ever before, he was ranked at the top of the scoring from the beginning of the season, and in the 17th round of Leeds United, he scored 100 goals for Tottenham in his career, strengthening Tottenham’s’Legend’ position. Son Heung-min is the only non-Irish player who is not of British or Irish nationality among the 100 goals scored by Tottenham.
Son Heung-min’s race didn’t end here. Four days after achieving Tottenham’s 100th goal, he scored his 16th goal in the season and his 150th goal in Europe in a match against Brentford in the Carabao Cup quarterfinal.
Son Heung-min is the first Asian player to score 150 goals on the European stage. In addition, I added the record of achieving 100 EPL career attack points achieved in the Battle of Sheffield. Heung-min Son is adding a new history to the history of Asian players who have challenged England for the’Soccer Close’.
The record for the’first in Asia’ he will achieve remains. If he scored two more goals in the future, Son Heung-min will set a tie record for the most goals in the regular league (14 goals) in his Asian EPL season. If you score three more goals, you can beat your record. The number of games remaining and the flow of goals scored by Son Heung-min can be sufficiently renewed. If you can accumulate goals smoothly, you can win the undisputed title of being the first EPL scorer in Asia. Son Heung-min’s’Man of Records’ is currently in progress.
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