In the first half of the Coupang Play Series match between Tottenham Hotspur and Team K League held at Seoul World Cup Stadium in Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 31st, Tottenham Hotspur’s Son Heung-min is celebrating after scoring a multi-goal and the team’s third goal.
Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League (EPL) defeated Team K-League with Son Heung-min’s multi-goal performance.
Tottenham won 4-3 in the first game of the Coupang Play Series against Team K-League held at Seoul World Cup Stadium on the 31st, led by Son Heung-min’s multi-goal.
Tottenham, who visited Korea again after two years since beating Team K-League 6-3 in 2022, showed off their hot attacking power in front of domestic fans on this day as well. A crowd of 63,395 spectators gathered at the stadium and enjoyed a football festival where both teams scored a combined 7 goals.
Team K-League was strong in the beginning. Yang Min-hyeok (Gangwon), who is expected to join Tottenham, and Daejeon rookie Yoon Do-young, the ‘two high school K-League players’, flashed with bold individual breakthroughs from the beginning.
Yang Min-hyeok was unstoppable even when facing EPL starting defenders such as Emerson Royal.
However, when Team K-League failed to score early, Tottenham took the lead. At the center of it all was Son Heung-min. Son Heung-min troubled Team K-League with bold breakthroughs from the left from the beginning.
The first goal also started with Son Heung-min’s attack. In the 28th minute of the first half, goalkeeper Jo Hyeon-woo blocked Son’s shot, but Dejan Kulusevski pushed it in again to score the first goal. After that, Tottenham continued to create threatening scenes, such as Lucas Berival’s shot hitting the goalpost in the 35th minute of the first half and Pedro Porro’s decisive shot slightly over the crossbar.
In the 38th minute of the first half, Son Heung-min took care of it himself this time. Son Heung-min used his unique speed to break through from the left side, then cut inside and hit the corner of the goal with an exquisite curling shot from the ‘Son Heung-min zone’. It was a goal that contained all of Son Heung-min’s strengths.
Son Heung-min, who got on the momentum, scored another goal before the end of the first half. In the first half’s extra time, he completely got rid of one defender and calmly scored a goal with a one-on-one chance with the goalkeeper, making it a multi-goal.
Son Heung-min, who scored multiple goals in the first match against Team K-League in 2022, was on fire from the first half of the day. Tottenham took a 3-0 lead in the first half thanks to Son Heung-min’s performance.
Team K-League also showed its strength in the second half. Team K League, which only had domestic players in the first half, brought in foreign players such as Iljutcenko (Seoul), Cesinha (Daegu), and Anderson (Suwon FC) in the second half, and this was effective.
In the 7th minute of the second half, when Jung Jae-hee’s shot bounced off the goalkeeper, Iljutcenko pushed it back to score a comeback goal. Just 3 minutes later, the two combined again to score a goal. In the 10th minute of the second half, Team K-League counterattacked again, and Iljutcenko scored multiple goals with a diving header from Jung Jae-hee’s cross, quickly closing the gap to one goal.
Son Heung-min played for 18 minutes and 63 minutes of the second half before handing over the captain’s armband to James Maddison and being substituted. The
two teams fought fiercely after that. Tottenham used the substituted players to attack with a large number of players, and Team K-League counterattacked with Anderson and Jung Jae-hee. When Tottenham
went ahead 4-2 with a goal by Will Lancsheer, who was called up from the U20 team, in the 23rd minute of the second half, Team K-League closed the gap again with a mid-range shot by Oberdan (Pohang) in the 36th minute of the second half. Oberdan imitated Son Heung-min’s ‘click’ celebration.
In a fierce ‘one-goal match’ that continued until the end, neither team scored an additional goal, and the game ended with Tottenham’s 4-3 victory. 파워볼사이트
