Son heung min: a thread

Son moved to Germany at the age of 16. and despite it being a different culture, still broke into the Hamburg first team at the age of 17. He later made his national team debut after just turning 18.

Son has 3 goals in 6 appearances in the World Cup,and has 2 in 2 appearances when playing as a centre forward for his country at the competition. 2 of the 3 goals came in his second World Cup tournament.The first came against Mexico, which was one of the goals of the tournament.

The second came against Germany, ending their World Cup. He oustcored firmino,Messi, Di Maria, Dries Mertens,Sadie Mane, and Reus. Others players with the same goal count were Aguero,Suarez, Neymar, Coutinho, and Salah.

Of the players who scored 2+ goals, son ranks higher than Griezmann, hazard, coutinho, Neymar, and Suarez for goals per minute. He ranks 1 minute less than Mbappé for goals per minute also. Of those players mentioned, he had a harder group than all.(ranked by FIFA rankings)

Son scored 4 goals in the champions league that year in 7 appearances ( one was a 1 minute cameo and the other was for 7 minutes) averaging a goal per 106 minutes as a winger. Striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored 4 goals also while playing 114 more minutes, and as a striker.

He avareged a goal per 135 minutes. Keep in mind they were in the same group, with Tottenham advancing top, Real Madrid coming 2nd,and Dortmund in third.

Robert Lewandowski, who played in a easier group, averaged a goal every 121.6 minutes through Bayern’s first 8 games, over 15 minutes worse than Sonny’s output through Spurs’ first 8 games against better opponents, and as a winger.

Aguero average a goal per 104 minutes through City’s first 8 games, just 2 minutes better than sons in a group of farmers.

2018 UCL
Son had a 71% shooting accuracy, leading spurs to 2nd in shots on target with 75, only behind Barcelona’s 80. He also lead spurs to the Most shots in the competition, with 208. He ranked 18th in the competition with 3.2 expected npxG.

He ranked 20th in expected xG, and ranked 8th from those top 20 in over performing xG.

2019 UCL
He has scored 5 goals from 6 appearances and 365 minutes. That means he averages a goal every 73 minutes from LW. He has 2 assists, meaning an assist every 180 minutes, and a goal contribution per 52 minutes! From his 5 goals, 3 were with his left and 2 with his right.

2 of the goals came from outside the area. He had 18 attempts with 11 on target, meaning he had a shooting accuracy of 61%. Of the other 7 attempts, 2 were blocked, and 1 hit the post, meaning this could actually be higher.

2019 premier league and FA Cup
Over his entire FA cup career, son has 12 goals and 7 assists in 21 games. Son ranks 5th in the premier league for shots per game with 3.

Son is also statistically the most clinical finisher itw and is known to be one of the best 2 footed players in the world. 0.88 non penalty goal contributions per 90, more than Salah, Mane or any other winger in the Premier League

Since joining spurs, when playing on the left he averages a goal contribution every 109 minutes, when playing as a centre forward, this lowers to 1 per 89. He has never had a pass completion percentage under 80%, and reaching at least 85% in 7 competitions since joining spurs.

When playing Guardiolas Man City, he has scored 5 goals, the only player with more is Jamie Vardy of Leicester with 6. He has 9 goals in 11 games against Borrusia Dortmund.

He has 6 goals and 4 assists in 8 games vs Southampton, 5 goals and 4 assists in 7 against Leicester, 5 goals and 1 assist in 6 games vs Watford. Against London rivals West Ham he has 4 goals and 5 assists in 7 goals.

Has only played 611 minutes against the hammers, meaning he gets a goal contribution per 67 minutes. Against palace he has 5 goals in 6 games and 505 minutes.

Son Awards
First Asian player to get premier league player of the month, twice in 1 season, won London’s premier league player of the year, 2 goal of the months vs Chelsea and Burnley( which was named by sky sports as the best goal in EPL history)

highest scoring Asian player in the history of the premier league and champions league, 2x premier league player of the month, the same as vs Zola, Suarez, Fernando Torres,Hazard, Ginola,Ryan Giggs, Robbie Fowler,Fabregas, Diego Costa,Berbatov, and Aubameyang.

He’s the youngest Hamburg goalscorer, and quickest Leverkusen player to 2 hat tricks in a year. He is the most expensive Asian player in footballing history, first Asian to win premier league player of the month, and the first Asian to finish top-10 in premier league goalscoring

He’s the first goalscorer at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium, first European competition goalscorer at the new stadium, first Tottenham goalscorer under Jose mourinho, final goal scorer under Pochettino,and first Asian player to 50 premier league goals.

Sons game vs Aston Villa
Son fractured his arm 54 seconds into an away fixture vs Aston Villa. He later played the full 90 minutes without painkillers despite a complete fracture.

“I kept playing, I don’t know how. I could feel it in the game, yes, but it was so important, I didn’t want to say I couldn’t play because of my arm and tried to keep going to help the team. I’m doing very, very well though.”

Son scored a brace, including a 94th minute goal sending Tottenham to 5th in the premier league. After Injuries to Son, Kane, Bergwijn, Sissoko, Foyth, and Davies, they would later fall to 8th.

From january 22nd to February 16th 2020 he scored in every game. The games were across 2 completions, the premier league and FA cup. He fractured his arm on the 16th of February vs Aston Villa, meaning this streak of scoring in 5 straight games could be more.

The games he scored in were against Norwich(H) scoring 1 goal from LW, Southampton(A) in the 4th round of the FA cup, scoring from LW, Man City(H) scoring from RW, Southampton(H) scoring from the number nine position, and Aston Villa( A) scoring a brace,while playing number nine

Last season in the premier league from November 24th to January 1st Son contributed to 13 goals, averaging a goal contribution every 51 minutes. From November 24th to January 4th of the same season, in all competitions, he average a goal contribution per 53 minutes.

This was over the stretch of 12 games, and during the Christmas period, meaning he got less rest.

Over the 2019 campaign, son played in 78 games with 22 days of rest, and still managing to play arguable his best season of football.

End of thread. Likes and Rts appreciated