Son Heung-min’s penalty compensates for the goal. ‘Captain’ Yonhap Son Heung-min (Tottenham) received high praise despite the team’s loss.
Tottenham lost 2 to 3 to Arsenal in the 35th home match of the English Premier League (EPL) season 2023-2024 held at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England on the 28th (Korea time). They lost their pride in a competitive game with Arsenal, also based in North London.
On this day, Tottenham were dragged down by conceding three goals in the first half alone. In the second half, they trailed after goals from Christian Romero and Son Heung-min, but bowed out as they were unable to reduce the gap by one goal.
Son Heung-min played full time between the front line striker and the left wing striker. In the 42nd minute of the second half when the team was behind by 1-3, Ben Davis kept the spark of the chase alive with a penalty kick, but he could not prevent the team from losing.
This is Son Heung-min’s 16th league goal, scored in 4 games since the Luton Town game on the 31st of last month. In particular, after joining Tottenham in the 2015-2016 season, he continued his particularly strong performance against Arsenal by recording 8 goals and 2 assists in the 20th North London derby (18 league games, 2 League Cup games).
Although the team lost, the local community highly evaluated Son Heung-min. On this day, in addition to one goal, Son Heung-min played an active role with two shots, shooting accuracy of 50% (1/2), passing success rate of 96% (22/23), opportunity created once, and ball touching 32 times.
The British media ‘Evening Standard’ gave Son Heung-min the team’s second highest rating of 7 and said, “Son Heung-min calmly scored a penalty that gave Tottenham hope,” and added, “But overall, it was struggle against Arsenal’s defence.” evaluate. London Football gave the team a score of 6, saying, “They struggled for 90 minutes and converted a penalty.”
‘Foot Mob’, an expert in football statistics, gave Son Heung-min the second highest score of 7.5 on the team, following Romero (7.8 points). On the other hand, ‘Sgor y Soffa’ gave a rather poor score of 6.9 points, 4th in the team, following Romero (7.7 points), Dejan Kulusevski (7.4 points), and Pedro Foro (7.1 points).
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