Heung-Min Son started in the England Football Association (FA) Cup round of 16 match against Middlesbrough of the Championship (Second Division) held at Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough, England on the 2nd (Korea time) on the 2nd (Korea time).
Son Heung-min, who set a new record for most 38 goals in league history with Harry Kane in the last English Premier League (EPL) match, shot the most four shots in the team on the day.
Heung-Min Son’s four shots all went inside the goal.
However, he was blocked by a save from Middlesbrough goalkeeper Joe Lumley.
Son Heung-min finished with a header with a cross from the right in extra time in the second half, but the ball fell into Lumley’s arms.
In the first half of overtime, Dejan Kulusevsky crossed a ground cross from the right and Heung-Min Son made a sensational back-heel shot.
The ball passed between Lumley’s legs and into the goal line. But Lumley turned around with animal-like reflexes to catch the ball.
After blocking all Tottenham’s attacks led by Son Heung-min, Middlesbrough won 1-0 with Josh Coburn’s winning goal in the second minute of extra time.
As Tottenham were eliminated from the FA Cup, Heung-Min Son’s first professional championship was postponed until next season.
Heung-Min Son is recognized as a top striker in Europe, but he was far from winning the trophy. Throughout his national and professional career, his only record is winning a gold medal at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games.
27-year-old Lumley made his professional debut with the Queens Park Rangers (QPR) in 2013 and has been playing in the second and fourth divisions.
He was unable to establish himself in QPR and moved to eight teams on loan before joining Middlesbrough before this season.
Lumley also has a strange relationship where he learned soccer at Tottenham when he was young.
He joined Tottenham at the age of ten and grew up alongside striker Harry Kane and midfielder Harry Winks, who are now key players of Tottenham.
However, at the age of 16, he did not receive a contract renewal offer from Tottenham, so he moved to the QPR youth team.
Lumley, who had nothing to show off in his career, is showing off his brightest performances in the FA Cup this season.
Middlesbrough defeated the ‘big’ Manchester United on penalties in the round of 32. In this match, Lumley also held the Middlesbrough goal.
Whoscored.com, a soccer statistics site, gave Middlesbrough’s second-highest score of 7.9 for Lumley’s performance against Tottenham.
Midfielder Johnny Howson received the highest score of 8.1.
Heung-Min Son received a rating of 7.0 along with Kane. Among the players who started at Tottenham, MF Harry Winks received the lowest score of 6.1. Yonhap News