“Son Heungmin is underrated and has no weakness”
Global media “TBR Football” reported on the 25th (Korea Standard Time) that “Fraser Foster pointed to Son Heung-min as a Tottenham teammate who was too underestimated and insisted that there was not a single weakness.”
Tottenham will play its 35th round home game of the English Premier League in the 2023-24 season against Arsenal at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England, at 10 p.m. on the 28th.
This match will be the second and final “North London derby” this season. This season’s first North London derby held at the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal’s home stadium, in September last year ended in a 2-2 draw as Son scored two goals.
Son Heung-min, who started as a front-line striker at the time, was dragged 0-1 by Christian Romero’s own goal, and in the 42nd minute of the first half, James Maddison passed and shook the Arsenal’s net to balance the game.
Son Heung-min also saved his team by scoring a decisive goal in the second half when it was in crisis. Tottenham allowed a penalty kick in the 9th minute of the second half to get ahead of Arsenal again, when Madison stole the ball from opposing midfielder Jorginho under pressure after kick-off and passed it to Son Heung-min penetrating into Arsenal’s camp.
After receiving Madison’s pass, Son calmly finished it again to make the score 2-2. With multiple goals on the day, Son became the first Tottenham player to score multiple goals in an away match against Arsenal since the launch of the Premier League in 1992.
Tottenham, which avoided defeat due to Son Heung-min’s strong performance, invited Arsenal to its home ahead of the end of the season. While attention is being paid to what will happen to the final North London derby of this season, Frazier Foster, who plays as Tottenham’s sub goalkeeper, drew attention as he praised Son Heung-min.
Veteran English goalkeeper Foster, who was born in 1988, left Southampton in the summer of 2022 and joined Tottenham as a free agent. Having been selected as a member of the English national football team, he played as a sub-member of Hugo Lloris last season and Guglielmo Vicario this season, playing mostly in cup tournaments.
Foster, who does not have much time to play, was satisfied with his position as Tottenham’s sub goalkeeper, extended his contract with the club in December last year until June 2025. After signing the new contract, he fractured his foot during training in March and is likely to be out of the season.
Foster, who is engaged in injury recovery and rehabilitation, recently appeared on a YouTube channel run by Ben Foster, the same England goalkeeper, and claimed that Son Heung-min is not receiving fair evaluation after watching it for the past two years since joining Tottenham.
According to the media, Foster said, “Son Heung-min is an amazing player. In fact, I would like to say that he is underestimated,” adding, “As players may have seen him during training together, he is a really good player. He has literally no weaknesses as he uses both his left and right feet well.”
As the poster said, Son is one of the best two-footed strikers in the history of the Premier League. Originally a right-footed player, he skillfully used his left foot through constant efforts, making it difficult for rival defenders and goalkeepers to predict when to shoot.
According to data released in April last year by the soccer statistics firm Opta, Son is the only player in the history of the Premier League that scored more than 40 goals on both his left and right feet. The other is Harry Kane, Son’s close friend who is currently playing for Bayern Munich.
Since playing for Tottenham Hotspur in 2015, Son has posted as many as 243 offensive points (160 goals and 83 assists) in 402 games alone. He has played the role of Tottenham ace this season, scoring 15 goals and nine assists.
Son Heung-min, who has 118 goals to rank 23rd overall in the Premier League alone, is the most wary of Arsenal ahead of the North London derby. Including the match that ended in a 2-2 draw in the first half of the season, Son has seven goals and five assists against Arsenal. Only three players have scored more goals in the North London derby than Son, including Harry Kane (14 goals), Emmanuel Adebayor (10 goals) and Robert Pires (9 goals).
Son Heung-min, who made Arsenal nervous by leaving a big mark in the Premier League, became a hot topic because he was sometimes not properly evaluated, as Foster claimed.
Irish midfielder Andy Townsend, who played for Chelsea in the past and is currently a host of British media outlet Talk Sports, said on the 2nd, “Son Heung-min is the best player, a great player. However, we need to use the word ‘legendary’ in the right context. Someone has put that in my script before, and it is not right.”
“I think Son Heung-min was a great player at Tottenham. But is he a legend? No,” Townsend said.
Townsend said Son Heung-min is not at the level of being called a legend in the Premier League or Tottenham, but there was a question mark over Townsend’s claim as the players picked his name on the records he achieved in Tottenham and the Premier League stage.
This season, Son has scored more than 10 goals in the league, becoming the seventh player in the history of the Premier League to achieve double-digit goals for eight consecutive seasons. He has also posted nine assists so far, and if he adds one more assist, he will become the sixth player to achieve “10 goals-10 assists” or more in a single season in the Premier League. 메이저놀이터
Son has also won four Premier League Player of the Month awards, including Alan Shearer, Dennis Bergkamp, Frank Lampard, Paul Scholes, Jamie Vardy, Bruno Fernandes, Marcus Rashford, and Thierry Henry, who have won the same number of awards.
Attention is expected to be focused on whether Son Heung-min, who received pleasant praise from his Tottenham teammate, will be able to increase his goal record and give his team a victory as he runs a scoring run during the upcoming North London derby.
