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Player Heung-Min Son (손흥민)
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Would have happily seen Sonny sold in the Summer.
Delighted to be utterly wrong.
He may not have the pace to get past full backs nowadays, but has unleashed a side to his game I never believed he had (top level interplay = consistently).
Long May it continue.
Seems an absolute Captain, leading by example, gushing positivity and encouragement.
A+ Season so far.
XG isn't worth the paper it's fabricated on.
That should be news to no one. He’s always significantly outperformed his xG.
One thing I don’t like about using xG to decide if someone is a better finisher is that it only counts the shots that happen and does not factor in one players ability to create a shot vs another (well cumulative xG sort of does this but has a ton of variables).
So let’s say Haaland wins a header and puts it on goal and it’s saved but sonny wouldn’t have even won the header… this would count against Haaland but not against son when comparing goals vs xG.
There’s a good argument that son is the best shooter in the world once he gets a sight of goal. But he’s almost certainly not the best finisher if that makes sense because he can’t get on the end of crosses like a bigger CF.
He outperforms his xG because he mainly takes difficult shots and is probably the best in the world in that category.
It's a decent metric to measure pure finishing ability.
Of course it doesn't consider the hard work done to get into the shooting position - but that's not what it's for tbf.
I agree and pretty much said the same in my last post just now. It would certainly be daft to use xg to say someone is a better player or more potent attacker. Pure finishing (once one is in the position to shoot) is okay to assess using it though.
It's very limited but still useful.
He's incredibly two-footed. Always impresses me how well he can shoot from range with either foot.
Postecoglou says one player doesn't need the armband to show how much he loves Spurs - Spurs Web - Tottenham Hotspur Football News
Did we ever have a player that loved our club so much as him, Been through all our ups and downs always stuck with us.
Did we ever have a player that loved our club so much as him, Been through all our ups and downs always stuck with us.
He’s earned the right to be given that honour.
Yeah man, 100%
Kane had a great left foot to be fair
Son is properly two footed tho
I’d genuinely love to know how they calculate it.
Scored his 200th goal in European club football today (league and cup games):
20 for Hamburger SV
29 for Bayern Leverkusen
151 for Spurs
It's crazy to think, but if he had played his entire career in the PL then he would have every chance of being the 3rd player to get to 200 PL goals.
20 for Hamburger SV
29 for Bayern Leverkusen
151 for Spurs
It's crazy to think, but if he had played his entire career in the PL then he would have every chance of being the 3rd player to get to 200 PL goals.
whats crazy is he has been played out wide