Tottenham Hotspur defeated Hong Kong Premier League champions Kitchee SC 4-1 on Friday in a post-season friendly played at Hong Kong stadium.<\/p>\n
South Korean star Son Heung-min performed well in the first-half as he opened the scoring in the 17th minute before Vincent Janssen added a second just four minutes later.<\/p>\n
Harry Kane extended the lead in the 83rd minute before Brazilian forward Lucas Silva pulled a goal back for Kitchee. But late strikes from Kazaiah Sterling sealed the victory for Spurs.<\/p>\n
“I was expecting a difficult game against Tottenham Hotspur,” said Kitchee manager Chu Chi-kwong was quoted by South China Morning Post.<\/em><\/p>\n “They\u2019re attacking is great, but even though we trailed, we kept disciplined and created some chances for ourselves.<\/p>\n “I expected Spurs to pin us back more but we were able to attack a lot.”<\/p>\n The friendly was part of a brief post-season tour to Hong Kong by Spurs that was a way to connect to Spurs fans in Asia, and also confirm an extension with Tottenham\u2019s kit sponsors AIA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tottenham Hotspur defeated Hong Kong Premier League champions Kitchee SC 4-1 on Friday in a post-season friendly played at Hong Kong stadium. South Korean star Son Heung-min performed well in the first-half as he opened the scoring in the 17th minute before Vincent Janssen added a second just four minutes later. Harry Kane extended the lead in the 83rd minute before Brazilian forward Lucas Silva pulled a goal back for Kitchee. But late strikes from Kazaiah Sterling sealed the victory for Spurs. “I was expecting a difficult game against Tottenham Hotspur,” said Kitchee manager Chu Chi-kwong was quoted by South China Morning Post. “They\u2019re attacking is great, but even though … Continue reading “Son Heung-min on target as Tottenham beat Kitchee in friendly”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":3831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,30,856,33],"tags":[128,95,486,232],"class_list":["post-3828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-players-in-europe","category-east-asia","category-rest-of-asia","category-south-korea","tag-kitchee","tag-slider","tag-son-heung-min","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828","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=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}