Heung-min Son beats Salah, 1st place in Sky Sports EPL cumulative power ranking

Tottenham Hotspur’s Son Heung-min (left) beat Liverpool’s Salah (right) to become the first in the Sky Sports season’s cumulative power ranking. [사진 스카이스포츠]

‘Super Hand’ Son Heung-min (30, Tottenham) ranked first in the UK Sky Sports Premier League (EPL) season cumulative power ranking.

Sky Sports announced the cumulative power rankings for the EPL 2021-22 season on the 9th (Korean time). Son Heung-min took first place overall with 71,587 points. 292 points behind Mohamed Salah (Liverpool, 71,295).

Sky Sports Power Ranking is an individual ranking of EPL players. Players are ranked by evaluating 35 stats, including points, assists, and tackles in the last 5 games. Give more weight to recent matches. This time, the cumulative power rankings for the entire season were announced.

Son Heung-min beat Sala by 292 points in the season’s cumulative power ranking. [사진 스카이스포츠]

Sky Sports said, “Sala has maintained the top spot on the EPL Power Rankings season chart for almost the entire season, but Heung-Min Son overtook Salah to take the top spot with three games remaining. Heung-Min Son has been involved in 11 goals in the last 7 games (9 goals and 2 assists). Son Heung-min has scored 20 goals without scoring a penalty kick. Almost double the xG (expected goals, 13.11).” “Sala has scored 22 goals, of which 5 are penalty kicks,” Sky Sports said. It is similar to the expected score (xG, 22.43),” he added.

The Power Ranking winner will be inducted into the Power Ranking Hall of Fame along with Tottenham’s Harry Kane (2020-21 season) and Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne (2019-20 season).

Heung-Min Son ranked first in the power rankings in the last 5 games. [사진 스카이스포츠]

Son Heung-min ranked first in the power rankings in the last 5 games with 9923 points. Heung-Min Son has scored 6 goals in his last 5 games. He scored three goals once morest Aston Villa, a multi-goal once morest Leicester City and one once morest Liverpool. It beat Gabriel Jesus (9737 points) and Rodri (9253 points) of Manchester City in second and third place.

On the other hand, Son Heung-min scored 20 goals in the Premier League this season and is second in the top scorer. Heung-Min Son scored in the first and second place match in the EPL on the 8th, narrowing the gap with the top scorer Salah to two goals.

Tottenham and Liverpool have three matches left. Son Heung-min, who is good at driving, can aim for a comeback at the last minute. Son Heung-min has scored three multi-goals, including a hat-trick, in the last seven games.

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