Tottenham Hotspur’s Son Heung-min celebrates scoring his team’s fourth goal in the second half of round 32 of the English Premier League during the 2021-22 season once morest Aston Villa at Villa Park in Birmingham, England on the 9th (local time). Heung-Min Son completed a hat-trick with this goal and led the team to a 4-0 victory. Birmingham = AP News
Will Son Heung-min (30, Tottenham)’s relentless goal storm continue over the weekend?
Heung-Min Son’s Tottenham Hotspur will play a home match once morest Brighton & Hove Albion at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England on the 16th at 8:30 pm (Korea time), the English Premier League (EPL) round 33 match for the 2021-22 season.
Tottenham Hotspur are in fourth place (57 points), which is the marginal line for next season’s UEFA Champions League appearance with their last four league victories.
They are three points away from fifth-placed Arsenal (54 points), which played one game less. After that, 6th place West Ham United (51 points, goal difference +9) and 7th place Manchester United (51 points, goal difference +7) are chasing, so there is no peace of mind until the end of the season.
Heung-Min Son will be at the forefront of attack to lead Tottenham’s 5th consecutive win. He is proud of his goal sense, which has improved with goals in the last three matches. On the 21st of last month, he scored a multi-goal once morest West Ham (tottenham 3-1 win), and on the 4th of this month he scored 1 goal and 1 assist once morest Newcastle (5-1 win). In the match once morest Aston Villa on the 10th, he detonated a hat-trick and led Tottenham in a 4-0 win.
Heung-Min Son, who achieved his second hat-trick in his career following entering the EPL, has scored 6 goals (1 assist) in his last 3 league games and is ranked 2nd in the scoring rankings with 17 goals (6 assists) in the regular league this season. With three goals behind Mohamed Salah (Liverpool, 20 goals), the leading scorer, it is possible to become the top scorer from the comeback. Seven games remain until the end of the regular season.
In the match once morest Brighton, he will also try to break the record for the most goals in a season in the European regular league. Heung-Min Son scored 17 goals in the EPL this season, tied with the most goals scored in his regular league in the 2020-21 season. Adding just one more goal rewrites his record for most goals in a season.
He also surpassed former national team coach Cha Bum-geun, a Korean soccer legend. Former coach Cha scored 17 goals in the Bundesliga in 1985-86 while playing for Leverkusen.
If he scores a goal once morest Brighton, he will set a new record for most goals scored by a Korean player in a European league in a single season. Heung-Min Son has scored 18 goals in official matches, including the UEFA Europa Conference League (one goal), and he has four goals left in his most goals scored in an official match (22 goals) in the 2020-21 season.
The opposing team, Brighton, is currently 11th in the league (37 points). They are undefeated in the last 2 matches (1 win, 1 draw). In the previous round, he produced a surprise by beating Arsenal 2-1. In their first match in the last 16 rounds, Tottenham won 2-0.
Kim Ki-joong reporter k2j@hankookilbo.com
