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[엑스포츠뉴스 김정현 인턴기자] Son Heung-min started to slow down in the scoring competition.
Son Heung-min participated in a match between Brighton & Hove Albion and Tottenham Hotspur in the 2020/21 Season Premier League Round 21 held on the 1st (Korean time).
On this day, Son Heung-min stepped forward as a front-line striker with Gareth Bale and Steven Berchwein while Harry Kane fell into an ankle injury.
However, Son Heung-min recorded only one effective shot and could not play much, preventing the team from losing 0-1.
Son Heung-min was silent for four consecutive games because he couldn’t score on the day. Son Heung-min, who scored the 100th goal in Tottenham’s career and 12th in the league in a match against Leeds United in the 17th round, has been silent since this match.
Son Heung-min, who competed with Mohammed Salah and Jamie Bardy before turning to the league turnaround, began to fall behind with Mohammed Salah’s solo.
Salah ran to 15 goals while scoring multi-goal in the 21st round against West Ham on the same day, and now it was three goals apart from Son Heung-min.
Salah fell into a goalless sluggishness in six games after winning 7-0 with multi-goals in round 14. During this period, Liverpool also struggled with a draw in five games.
Unfortunately, it was Tottenham who saved Liverpool’s sluggishness. In the 20th round match against Tottenham, Liverpool rebounded 3-1, breaking a five-game draw, and on that day, the trend continued against West Ham.
Tottenham suffered a second straight defeat from Liverpool and then to Brighton, followed by Kane’s two-week injury.
Although Son Heung-min came to the forefront this day, he had a hard time creating a pattern with other attackers, and he couldn’t create a threatening scene except for Son Heung-min made one effective shot with his personal ability.
In the two weeks without Kane, Tottenham met Chelsea, West Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and West Ham United in the league and played against Everton in the FA Cup quarterfinals.
If Son Heung-min can’t make a strategy to score goals with his teammates without Kane, the competition for the scorer with Salah will go unfavorable until Kane returns.
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