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Watch One Spurs Ace Who Notably Raised His Game Against Fulham

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Much has been made of Sonny’s flat start to the season, and lo and behold, Antonio Conte did his level best to drop the José Mourinho tribute act, and the South Korean notably benefitted. Son Heung-Min wasn’t alone in this respect but if we are looking for dramatic unticks in performances, this was one that would have caught the eye.

With an xG of 1.12, this was Son’s most threatening performance since his showstopping involvement in the Tottenham Hotspur 6:3 K-League Stars world club hybrid friendly on 13.07.2022, in which he scored twice. Sonny’s xG that night was 1.29

Shots

Crosses

Elsewhere, passing accuracy was massively up (to 91%) and there were even some successful crosses (50% success)!

Nice one, Sonny.

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Billy Tonsils
Billy Tonsils
1 year ago
Reply to  Hallenbeck

When you include both Charlie and Son I would hope it means Son has to take up less defensive duties which he is abysmal at ( only seen the highlights and listened on the radio ) and he is being covered by Richarlison..in that regard it allows Son to play his more natural game.

CowSpurs
CowSpurs
1 year ago

Son will come good in goal scoring again, form is temporary- class is permanent.

However, Son should have scored off that brilliant pass from Kane. That is the metric that needs attention. There will be games where we don’t finish teams off and they’ll come back at us. I don’t mind winning by one goal, but we have the quality up top to put teams like Fulham to the sword. When Conte releases the shackles we must do better.

Cabspur
Cabspur
1 year ago

I thought Conte played a blinder by taking Kane off after he scored keeping son and richy on as they have been subbing before.
Shows all the front 4 have some kinda equal importance , of course Kane is no1.
As for son much improved and looked like he was enjoying it again , both sonny and richy unlucky to open their accounts.

Hallenbeck
Hallenbeck
1 year ago
Reply to  SpursGoliath

Yeah, I don’t mean to diminish Richarlison’s performance. He was MOTM for me. In so many ways the creative spark we’ve been lacking. I more wanted to highlight that goals are a limited instrument for assessing the impact of a player, especially in Conte’s MMA football style.

I thought both Son and Richarlison were desperately unlucky when it came to the ball finding the net. Both coulda, shoulda had a brace each.

Eddie
Eddie
1 year ago

Off piste:

Apparently Southgate has assured that donkey Maguire that his WC place is assured.That doesn’t bode well for the team.How many games against decent opposition is he likely to have played by November?

No doubt the media will be bigging us up as probable winners.

Archibald&Crooks (SC)
Archibald&Crooks (SC)
1 year ago

Anyway the comment was about how Son raised his game yesterday and thats what I saw.
He has been toilet in most of the previous games whatever Statto tells us.

Archibald&Crooks (SC)
Archibald&Crooks (SC)
1 year ago
Reply to  Hallenbeck

this is where stats make me laugh
Richarlison 1 shot on target but I saw 1 go in the net and 1 hit the post how do your beloved stats explain that to the WHL faithful yesterday.
1 piss poor effort straight at Leno would count for “on target”.

Dexter
Dexter
1 year ago
Reply to  SpursGoliath

My unborn grandkids would’ve been watching that volley in 30 years time had it come off 😁
The one that got away…

Dexter
Dexter
1 year ago
Reply to  Hallenbeck

Absolutely right. I think what this highlights is that we have two very good forwards with similar stats, who are similarly as potent, but who have different strengths to offer the squad. This can only be a good thing in terms of impacting games off the bench where one or other is being kept quiet by an opponent.
Son’s taking a bit of time to get going, it happens in the early stages of seasons, and taking a lot of unnecessary – in my view – flack. But up until very recently Harry Kane couldn’t score in August if his life depended on it. I don’t recall a chorus of voices calling on him to be benched.

SpursGoliath
SpursGoliath
1 year ago
Reply to  Hallenbeck

Son was good but definitely some missing stats for Richy…for a start his assist?

He was taking more risks with his attacking passes so more were going to fail.

I still believe Richy ‘influenced’ the result more from what I saw with my eyes.

That volley would have been a spectacular goal too, deeply unlucky

positive from Son though

at large
at large
1 year ago

Another Sonny stat:

Number of times Lloris yelled at him: 0

Hallenbeck
Hallenbeck
1 year ago

Some stats I saw on the Sky site:

4 shots
2 on target
5 key passes
55 touches
34 passes
97.1% passing accuracy
1 tackle
1 foul won
1 foul conceded

Compare to Richarlison:
3 shots
1 on target
4 key passes
58 touches
31 passes
77.4% passing accuracy
4 tackles
2 fouls won
1 foul conceded

Richlarlison got a lot of plaudits for that game, and deservedly so in my view. He was easy on the eye, exciting and effective. His heatmaps suggest he played several roles: wingback, attacking midfield, and centre forward.

However, the narrative is that Son is still out of form just because he hasn’t scored. Based on these stats, he had a much better game than Richy. Near perfect passing is remarkable.

Scoring is not the only metric worth paying attention to in an attacking player. Conte-ball demands players are multi-disciplinary. We must get past the “He didn’t score, he’s rubbish, bench him” cave dweller speak.

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