Lampert and Drogba surpass 36 goals
Son and Kane’s help to score 10th league goal
Double-digit goals scored in 6 consecutive seasons
“A great honor… More importantly, win.”
Tottenham Hotspur win 4-0 away at Leeds
Photo = AFP Yonhap News
Son Heung-min (30), a pillar of Korean football, transferred from Leverkusen in the German Bundesliga to Tottenham Hotspur in the English Premier League (EPL) in August 2015, and met an attacking partner to be with for a long time. Harry Kane (29) is one year younger than Heung-Min Son. A former Tottenham youth, he scored 21 goals in the 2014-2015 season, one season before Son Heung-min joined Tottenham, and has already established himself as a representative striker in the league. Here, Heung-Min Son finished warming up for a season and successfully scored double-digit goals in the 2016-2017 season and got on track, finally completing the league’s top-class attacking duo.
They finally made a big mark in EPL history together. On the 26th, in the away match against Leeds United in the EPL round 27 of the 2021-222 season, held at Elland Road, Leeds, England, they scored their 37th joint goal in their career. In the 40th minute counterattack situation in the second half of the 3-0 lead, Kane passed a long lob pass from behind the center line, and Heung-Min Son, who was rushing into the door, caught it and trapped it with his knee once, then penetrated two defenders and shot with his right foot. split the goal As a result, the two players surpassed the 36 goals scored by Frank Lampert and Didier Drogba, the legendary duo who led Chelsea to the top of the Premier League in the early 2000s, becoming the protagonist of the most joint goals in EPL history.
The players, who have been playing a pivotal role in Tottenham’s attack for a long time, fully opened their eyes to the combination play in the 2020-2021 season, and scored a whopping 14 goals, breaking the record for the most goals in a single season set by Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton in the 1994-1995 season. However, the news of breaking the record for the most joint goals in a career close to 34 goals last season was hardly heard even when the new season started. This is because Kane could not find his condition at the beginning of the season in the aftermath of the transfer-related commotion during the offseason. Son Heung-min also left due to a muscle injury in the middle of the season, so they could not produce a joint goal other than one goal against Newcastle in October during the first half of last year. Then, in the second half, the two players gradually recovered their condition, and on the 19th, the long-awaited 36th joint goal came in the match against strong Manchester City. Here, after two matches, he finally succeeded in breaking a new record.
Expectations for them to create additional joint goals in the second half of the season also increased. This is because the performances of Son Heung-min and Kane are continuously improving. In the match against Leeds, Kane and Heung-Min Son continued to penetrate the opposing camp from the beginning, and in the first half, Matt Doherty, Dejan Klusevsky, and Kane scored consecutive goals, and finally Son Heung-Min scored.
Heung-Min Son (left) and Harry Kane (right) celebrate together after scoring their 37th joint goal on the 26th. Leeds = AP Yonhap News
On the other hand, Son Heung-min scored his 10th goal in the regular league with this goal, and recorded double-digit goals in the regular league for six consecutive seasons from the 2016-2017 season. It is another important mark that shows the side of the league’s representative flank striker. Heung-Min Son was delighted with the record breaking that day after the match, saying, “It’s a great honor,” but added more meaning to the team’s victory by saying, “We set a record, but the most important thing is 3 points.”
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