[해축브리핑] Son Heung-min is still… EPL help king in fierce competition with 5 people

Harry Kane ranks first in EPL aid and Son Heung-min ranks fifth in aid. © AFP=News1

With 8-10 games left per team, competition for the English Premier League (EPL) help king is hot.

Five candidates are competing, including Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), who is leading the ranking with 13 assists. Son Heung-min (9, Tottenham Hotspur) still has a possibility.

At this point, the closest player to the assisting king is Kane. Kane scored 19 goals and 13 assists at the EPL, leading both the scoring and assisting rankings.

From the beginning of the league, Kane was struggling with a pile of help. In the second round against Southampton, he scored a whopping four assists in one match, and recorded eight assists up to the sixth round. There was no one to follow this momentum.

But lately, it has been somewhat slow. In early February, he had a problem with his physical condition, such as absent due to an ankle injury. After returning from injury, all that was added was two assists in one match against Crystal Palace in round 27.

Thanks to the gap at the beginning, there is still no problem in the lead position, but the pace of help is the lowest among the five candidates since January. As for Kane, it is urgent to raise the pace that has fallen sharply as soon as possible.

Fernandes lost two fellow strikers injuries. © AFP=News1

In the meantime, pursuers followed all the way down to the chin. Bruno Fernandez (Manchester United) and Kevin The Browner (Manchester City) are tied for second with 11.

Fernandes is flying day after day with a perfect adaptation to the EPL. Manchester United coach Ole Gunnar Solskár has earnestly praised him as “an indispensable player for us,” and has received infinite trust. After the second season, it has established itself as the core of a self-proclaimed team.

However, there is a bad news. Marcus Rashford and Anthony Marshall, the main players of the Manchester United attack, were injured together.

Help isn’t a record you can build just because you’re good alone. The power of the teammates to connect the pass to the score occupies a large stake. Perhaps that’s why recently, instead of helping, there are often scenes where people solve themselves. In the last 10 games, he only helped 3, but the record of 5 points including 4 consecutive goals proves this.

Director Solshar also revealed his intention to leave Fernandez with more finishing tasks due to the lack of a’solver’. It is an unfavorable condition for the competition for help.

The Browner, a regular of the help king, who became the king of help in three of the last five seasons, was a major inflection point in the race of the king of help due to a hamstring injury in the middle of the season.

The Browner collapsed in January when he was in good shape and missed five games. It recovered faster than the initial expectations of the local media, saying, “I will be absent for more than 8 weeks until return”, but still has not fully recovered its former appearance.

Initially, the prediction that The Browner would lead when Kane slowed down was dominant, but the competition for help fell into chaos as The Browner fell injured as well. The Browner’s quickest way to get the fourth assisting title is to get rid of his impatience and get back to his condition little by little.

Son Heung-min recently received reprimand from manager Morinho for passing a pass rather than a shot. © AFP=News1

Jack Greerish (Aston Villa), who is in fourth place with 10 assists, has been unable to play at all lately due to injuries and poor physical condition. In addition, rumors that he will move to Manchester City as soon as this season ends, and his mind awakened.

At the beginning of the season, he eloquently stated his goal as “Aston Villa’s goal is to enter the top 6 and help king,” but recently, the will seems to have weakened. As long as Greelish returns from injury, the difference with Kane is not too far. If you keep your mind, the title of the King of Help is possible as long as you can.

The last candidate is Son Heung-min. Son Heung-min rose to the 5th place after adding help little by little throughout the season.

In particular, it is said that he opened his eyes to the’helper instinct’ by recording 2 and 3 help each in the 26th round Burnley match and the FA Cup 5th round Everton match. As Son Heung-min, whose advantage is to break through the side and cross, can add enough help in the rest of the game.

However, it is a variable that Son Heung-min’s’altruistic play’ is being criticized. Tottenham coach Jose Mourinho recently publicly rebuked the scene that created a chance for a colleague at a decisive opportunity, saying, “I can’t understand why Son Heung-min tried to pass.”

This is a bit bitter remark for Son Heung-min, who has been growing one step further with altruistic play and helping ability.

Son Heung-min will also be able to win the title of the first helper in his life if he only’drives for help’ in the rest of the game. However, the presence of director Morinyu, who wants Son Heung-min to finish the pass directly, is a big variable in the challenge for the title of help king.

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