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Son Heung-min surpasses Ronaldo and Drogba in the Premier League

Published:2023-09-03 By Nhật Tảo(MetaSports) Comments
Three goals in Tottenham's match against host Burnley 5-1 in round 4 on the evening of September 2 helped Korean striker Son surpass Cristiano Ronaldo and Didiger Drogba in scoring goals in the Premier League.

In the 16th minute of the match at Turf Moor, Tottenham counterattacked quickly. The ball is swung long from home to Son in the middle of the opponent's field. The Korean striker controlled it neatly, turned on the wall with Solomon and received the ball back in the Burnley penalty area. After one touch, Son finished with a chip with moderate force, enough to defeat goalkeeper James Trafford, scoring for Tottenham.

This beautiful handling helped Son have 104 goals in the Premier League, thereby surpassing his idol Cristiano Ronaldo, a striker with 103 goals. However, the Korean striker achieved lower performance, needing 272 matches from the beginning of the 2015-206 season to achieve this number of goals with Tottenham, while Ronaldo only needed 236 matches, through two periods with Man Utd (2003- 2009 and 2021-2023).

In eight consecutive seasons before this season, Son scored 4 goals in the 2015-2016 season, then 14, 12, 11, 17, 23 and 10 goals each subsequent season in the Premier League. With 23 goals in the 2021-2022 season, he and Mo Salah jointly received the top scorer award, becoming the first Asian player to win this title in tournament history.

On BBC 5 Live, former Premier League top scorer Chris Sutton congratulated Son and called the Tottenham captain "sonaldo". This former Blackburn striker then praised Son's goal: "So beautiful! That was a cool and perfect finish."

But Son didn't stop there. In the second half of the second half, the 31-year-old striker added 105th and 106th goals to complete his own hat-trick in this match. In the 63rd minute, he moved a beat slower, received the ball back from Porro - who glided down to the left to pass it back - and then finished a touch with his right foot, bringing down Trafford. Three minutes later, still Porro assisted - this time with a pass from the middle of the field, tearing Burnley's defense, Son broke the offside trap, controlled the ball and then finished his left foot neatly into the near corner when facing Trafford. .

Three goals against Burnley is the fourth time Son has scored a hat trick in the Premier League. On three previous occasions, his victims were Southampton at St. Mary's in September 2020, Aston Villa at Villa Park in April 2022 and Leicester at Tottenham Hotspur in September 2022. With four shots, Son has more hat tricks in the Premier League than Cristiano Ronaldo (3), Didier Drogba (3), Frank Lampard (3), Nicolas Anelka (3), Emmanuel Adebayor (3) or Gareth Bale (2). Roberto Firmino (2), Steven Gerrard (2).

With 106 goals, Son Heung-min also rose to 31st on the list of best scorers in Premier League history, ahead of famous goal scorers like Didier Drogba (104) and Ruud van Nistelrooy (95). ), Dimitar Berbatov (94), Dennis Bergkamp (87)...

Besides its personal significance, Son's 1-1 equalizer was also a turning point that helped Tottenham reverse the situation and win all three points as a guest at Turf Moor. Burnley caught up better and took only four minutes to open the score from a quick counterattack that ended with Koleosho's low cross from the left for striker Lyle Foyster to kick past goalkeeper Vicario.

However, after Son conceded a goal to equalize 1-1, Burnley gradually lost morale and collapsed at the end of the first half. Right before halftime, Tottenham increased the score to 2-1 when the home defense cleared the ball to the edge of the penalty area, just within range for midfielder Cristian Romero to fire a cannon with his right foot and hit the roof of Trafford's net.

James Maddison - Tottenham's $ 51 million contract - also promotes value. At the end of the first half, he dribbled the ball to the left and passed awkwardly across, causing confusion in Burnley's defense, allowing Romero to score. In the 54th minute, Maddison put himself on the scoreboard when he received the ball from Udogie on the left, then took advantage of the space in the middle of Burnley's defense to score with another beautiful long-range shot.

This cannonball is Maddison's 18th goal from outside the box since his first season in the Premier League - the 2018-2019 season. During the same period, he and James Ward-Prowse are co-leading the league in this statistic. This is also the second goal Maddison scored for Tottenham in the Premier League after joining the team this summer.

After Son scored two more goals to complete the hat trick, Tottenham kicked a bit loose. But Burnley also had to wait until the fourth minute of injury time to score a second goal thanks to substitute Josh Browhill, setting the result 2-5 in favor of the away team.

In the fifth round, Tottenham will return home to another newly promoted team - Sheffield United on September 16.

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