Tottenham Hotspur won 4-1 at home against Newcastle United in the 16th round of the 2023-2024 English Premier League (EPL) at 1:30 a.m. on the 11th (Korea time). Son Heung-min started and played full time, scoring his 10th goal and 3rd and 4th assists in this season with one goal and two assists.
In the 26th minute of the first half, after Son Heung-min dribbled from the left to the left in the box through a step-over individual skill, Destiny Udogi, who was just in front of the net, pushed the left foot into the net and Tottenham took the first goal. 온라인경마
In the 38th minute of the first half, Son, who caught a long pass from the right, showed off his talent again by coming in from the left to the center. When Newcastle’s Kieran Trippier lost his balance, Son passed a cutback pass with his left foot, and Hishalisson lightly pushed it in with his left foot to make it 2-0. Son had two assists.
In the 15th minute of the second half, Pedro Porro’s early cross from a long distance from the right went to Hishalisson in front of the box, and Hishalisson’s first touch was not good, but rather, Hishalisson ran between the Newcastle defense, which was confused, and finished with a left-footed shot to make it 3-0.
In the 37th minute of the second half, Son Heung-min took over the central through-pass and entered the box. He was caught by the goalkeeper and got a penalty kick, and he kicked it to the left as a PK kicker to make it 4-0 in the 40th minute of the second half. In Newcastle, Joelington scored a comeback goal in the extra time of the second half, but Tottenham won 4-1.
On this day, Son Heung-min showed a tremendous ability to create opportunities as if he were teaching his teammates, who had not been able to create a scoring opportunity for him, as if he were “creating opportunities for frontline strikers like this.”
According to the soccer statistics site Foot Mob, Son Heung-min created as many as three chances in the first half alone, which is a gap between the world and the last games of Tottenham.
Tottenham created only one opportunity during the 3-3 draw against Manchester City on the 4th, and Tottenham also created only one opportunity during the 1-2 West Ham defeat on the 8th. There were only two opportunities in both games, but Son Heung-min came out to the left wing for the first time in a long time and created three chances in the first half.
In the end, Son Heung-min created four chances by himself, creating the most opportunities in the team. Then, he showed overwhelming performance with one goal and two assists. Son Heung-min, who had a hard time not getting chances at the front line for the past two games, went to the left wing this time to teach his Tottenham teammates how to create chances for the striker.
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