Son Heung-min achieves the 18th goal in the season and the most attack points Running towards the’best season’

Son Heung-min achieves the 18th goal in the season and the most attack points Running towards the’best season’

Input: 2021-02-21 12:42:02Revision: 2021-02-21 14:32:47Published: 2021-02-21 12:42:54

Tottenham Hotspur vs. Wolfsberger in the first leg of the European Football Federation Europa League match at the Pushkasi Arena in Budapest, Hungary on the 19th, in the match between Tottenham Hotspur vs. Wolfsberger. AP Yonhap News

Son Heung-min (Tottenham) scored the 18th goal in the season, rewriting his record for the most attacking points in a season.

Son Heung-min started off in the first leg of the 2020-2021 Europa League match against Wolfsberger (Austria) held at the Pushkasi Arena in Budapest, Hungary on the 19th (Korean time) Scoring the opening goal of the team, driving Tottenham’s 4-1 victory. Tottenham approached the Europa League round of 16

While Harry Kane was absent, Son Heung-min, who stood at the forefront of the 4-2-3-1 formation on this day, shook the net with a header shot by throwing himself against Garrus Bale’s cross. This is Son Heung-min’s 18th goal this season (13 goals in the regular league, 1 goal in the Europa League qualifying round, 3 goals in the final, and 1 goal in the league cup).

In particular, Son Heung-min achieved the most attack points in a season by accumulating 31 attack points this season, including 13 help from various competitions.

Previously, his most attacking points in one season were 30 (18 goals and 12 assists) he recorded last season.

Also, after wearing the Tottenham uniform, Son Heung-min scored 20 goals (14 goals in the Champions League and 6 goals in the Europa League) in the final match against the UEFA club.

According to statistics website Opta, Son Heung-min is the fourth Tottenham player to score more than 20 goals in the UEFA tournament. Harry Kane (29 goals), Martin Chivers (22 goals) and Jermaine Depot (20 goals) follow.

Son Heung-min aims to break the record for the highest score in a season. His highest score in a season in Europe was 21 goals (14 EPL goals, 6 FA Cup goals, 1 UEFA Champions League goal) while playing 47 games for Tottenham in the 2016-2017 season. The EPL season’s most goals were also written at this time. Son Heung-min, who has already scored 18 goals (13 EPL) this season, will set a new record if he scores more than four goals for the rest of the season. In EPL, if you score one more goal, it is the tie record for the most goals in the regular league. EPL has 15 games left until the end of the season, and the League Cup final and Europa League matches remain.

In this regard, Son Heung-min opened a new goal ceremony to create the alphabet’W’ with the index and middle fingers of both hands and attracted attention. There are various interpretations of the meaning of this ceremony among fans. There is speculation that it means “Win”, but it is said that this ceremony is a promise made by Son Heung-min with a fan about three years ago on social media such as Twitter. Son Heung-min met a child fan suffering from leukemia in Korea in 2018 and promised to do’W Ceremony’ if he scores.

Son Heung-min, who was tired from a tight schedule, only extinguished the first half of the match against Wolfsberger on this day, then stepped back to the bench and took a break. Tottenham will play an away game against West Ham in the EPL round 25 on the 21st.

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