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[하이위컴=공동취재단, 스포츠서울 장영민통신원·박준범기자] Director Subject Mourinho has no choice but to save Son Heung-min (29, Tottenham).
Tottenham won the FA Cup Wickham Wanderers (Second Division) and 4-1 (32-finals) in the 2020-2021 season at High Wycom Adams Park in the UK on the 26th (Korean time) and succeeded in the round of 16.
On the 29th, Liverpool and Tottenham, who have to play the 20th round of the English Premier League (EPL), started a rotation. The main gun Harry Kane and Son Heung-min sat on the bench at the same time. It was a willingness to win while focusing on the main players’ physical arrangements. However, the game didn’t go as planned by Mourinho. Tottenham struggled with Wickham. The attack was frustrating. With Bale’s equalizer, he managed to balance the game, but the first half of the 25th minute conceded and was dragged away.
In the case of a draw, it was the FA Cup that had to be played until overtime, so coach Mourinho quickly pulled out a replacement card. In the 13th minute of the second half, Kane hit the ground first. However, he couldn’t do the role of’game changer’. 10 minutes later, coach Mourinho showed his willingness for victory by putting Son Heung-min and Tangwi Ndombele at the same time. As soon as Son Heung-min entered, he broke through to the left and showed his presence with a powerful left foot shot. In the 37th minute of the second half, he helped Ndombele to score additional points and contributed to season 10.
Son Heung-min has scored 26 attack points (16 goals and 10 assists) in 28 games in the previous tournament this season. It is a high level of purity, approaching one attack point per game at 0.92 per game. Moreover, Son Heung-min has not had a good pace recently. In both of the previous two games, the shots hit the goal one by one, and the goal was not tasted. In the 35th minute of the second half, he missed the perfect goal. Nevertheless, he wasn’t greedy for scoring, and when the opportunity came, he took a better place for his teammates. He recorded help for two consecutive games, showing that he did not hesitate to play a supporting role other than the main character.
Son Heung-min is the core of Tottenham’s attack with Kane. In the Wickham Battle, Kane was put in first, and he was trying to save Son Heung-min’s physical strength as much as possible. As a result, Son Heung-min shook the opponent’s defense regardless of location and raised the attack point. It was a game where we fully understood why coach Mourinho had to save Son Heung-min so much.
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