By bagging a brace in Tottenham’s thumping 6-1 victory against Leicester on Thursday, Son Heung-min became the highest-scoring South Korean player in a European season, breaking a 31-year-old record.<\/p>\n
Son enters Tottenham’s final game of the season on Sunday with 21 goals, having surpassed Cha Bum-kun’s 19-goal haul at German club Bayer Leverkusen in the 1985\/86 season.<\/p>\n
Son’s first goal in the 6-1 rout of Leicester came in the 36th minute. The Korean attacker met Dele Alli’s lofted pass with a first-time volley.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old was on target again in the 71st minute when he curled a low shot beyond goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel.<\/p>\n
Harry Kane scored the other four goals for Tottenham and climbed to the top of the Premier League goalscorer chart with 26 goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By bagging a brace in Tottenham’s thumping 6-1 victory against Leicester on Thursday, Son Heung-min became the highest-scoring South Korean player in a European season, breaking a 31-year-old record. Son enters Tottenham’s final game of the season on Sunday with 21 goals, having surpassed Cha Bum-kun’s 19-goal haul at German club Bayer Leverkusen in the 1985\/86 season. Son’s first goal in the 6-1 rout of Leicester came in the 36th minute. The Korean attacker met Dele Alli’s lofted pass with a first-time volley. The 24-year-old was on target again in the 71st minute when he curled a low shot beyond goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel. Harry Kane scored the other four goals … Continue reading “Son Heung-min breaks another goal-scoring record”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":3634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,33],"tags":[822,95,486,232],"class_list":["post-3632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-players-in-europe","category-south-korea","tag-cha-bum-kun","tag-slider","tag-son-heung-min","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}