The number of veils thrown to maximize Son Heung-min… returns to disaster

[골닷컴] Reporter Kim Hyun-min = Tottenham Director Subject Mourinho announced that Gareth Bale was selected to maximize Son Heung-min. However, Bale provided a hole to Son Heung-min, showing only one pass.

Tottenham lost 0-1 in the 21st round of the 2020/21 Premier League (PL) against Brighton at the AMEX Stadium.

An emergency broke out in Tottenham prior to this match. It is that signboard striker Harry Kane left his power due to injury. Naturally, the biggest concern for Brighton was on who would play the role of Kane’s replacement.

Head coach Mourinho placed Kang-soo forward, not backup striker Carlos Vinicius, but Steven Berchbain forward as’False 9 (False 9: a position term that refers to the position of a player in a position as the front-line striker)’. Threw it. Instead, Veil formed the left and right attack line with Son Heung-min. As Berchbain replaced Kane’s role, Bale started as a substitute for Kane.

Coach Mourinho said, “It was to give Son Heung-min the usual dynamics,” and said, “There is no substitute for Kane. However, he puts a veil on the attacking team and plays with Son Heung-min. I tried to take on the role,” he explained. In other words, it was a paving stone to maximize Son Heung-min’s scoring power while Berchbain and Bale attacked at high speed.

However, as a result, it turned into a major failure, to the point that Mourinho himself complained that it was “not successful.” The veil, which he put into play with Son Heung-min, only offered one pass to Son Heung-min.

The pathmap provided by Veil to Heung-min Son

As Bale’s failure to support Son Heung-min, it was natural that Tottenham’s attack could not work normally. Tottenham were absolutely inferior to Brighton, 17th in the number of shots in the first half, 1-9. It was Tottenham who even shot only three shots until around the 60th minute before Bale was replaced.

At the beginning of the second half, Tottenham subtracted defender Davinson Sanchez and replaced Vinicius, and in the 60th minute, when he substituted Lucas Moura instead of Veil, the attack began to ease little by little. This is Tottenham, who attempted a total of 5 shots in 30 minutes after falling veil. Although the time has been cut in half, the actual shooting is almost doubled for Tottenham.

Bale made two attempts to break through the dribble, let alone shooting, during 60 minutes, but all failed. There was only one key pass (pass connected by shooting), the pass success rate was only 66.7%, and the ball competition win rate was 28.6%, which was a disastrous level. There was no acquisition of ownership, and on the contrary, the number of times the ownership was lost reached a whopping 11 times.

Tottenham signed a loan from Real Madrid for Bale, who had had a glorious past through the summer transfer market. However, the signing is a “disaster” as Jamie O’Hara, who previously played for Tottenham with Bale as a teammate, and is currently active as a commentator for Sky Sports and Talksport.