Harry Kane’s headbutt for Son Heung-min scored the only goal in Tottenham Hotspur’s victory over Burnley on Monday night, the seventh time this Premier League season Kane has assisted Son.
That’s the number of assists provided through Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Adama Traoré to Raúl Jiménez last season. Newcastle United’s Ryan Fraser assisted Callum Wilson seven times when he played for Bournemouth in 2018/19, yet no player has provided more than seven assists to the player. in the Premier League this decade.
Harry Kane tied that record in six games this season.
When other people think of smart hit associations, they look at the overall targets scored across the two forwards. Most of the most productive associations of its kind in the Premier League, adding up to the 55-goal streak of Andy Cole and Peter Beardsley in 1993/94, took a position in the 1990s and 2000s, when it was more common to play with two strikers in a 4-4-2 formation. Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge hold the goal record for a 38-game Premier League season with 52 goals between them in 2013/14.
Few would bet that Son and Kane will live up to this feat, but with Son Heung-min lately on the Premier League’s most sensitive scorers table and Harry Kane capable of 25 to 30 seasons of goals, it’s not entirely implausible.
Another way to judge strike associations is to observe how each player is helping the other. In addition to Kane’s assistant, It’s seven times this season, Son has provided two assists for Kane, meaning they’ve provided nine assists so far. this season.
That’s the same number Suarez and Sturridge provided this record season for Liverpool, and it’s the second-highest number of the decade, behind the 12 assists Ryan Fraser and Callum Wilson have provided in 2018/19. season and in 2017/18, so with 32 games to play, Harry Kane and Son Heung-min can break that record smoothly.
According to Goal. com, his combination opposed to Burnley also puts Son Heung-Min and Harry Kane in the position of the moment in the general purpose mixes in Premier League history, tied in 29 combinations with Thierry Henry and Robert Pires of Arsenal and Sergio Aguero and David Silva. Manchester City. . There are seven behind them, equaling the record for 36 combinations of purposes through Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba.
Son’s headbutt against Burnley might not have been as impressive as his purpose of the season, a 70-yard dribble last year, but it was enough for the Spurs to win the game. for Son this season.
Most of them came from Kane to locate a defensive pass for Son who runs a high defensive line. According whoscored. com, Kane has 2. 3 key assists consistent with the game, the top players in his position and the tenth in the league; In the last two seasons, he was not even at the maximum of 50 sensitive and was the beneficiary of several of those key passes.
Jose Mourinho deserves to be praised for this tactical change, taking credit for Kane’s passing ability by betting more deeply to create an area behind the rival defense, but other groups could begin to protect more deeply to counter that. opposite Southampton was alone in his own half, while opposite Burnley was discovered in a more classic center forward position about 30 yards ahead of Burnley’s purpose. Of course, protecting more deeply would not prevent Kane from employing his other talents. as a normal center forward, however, Son Heung-min would possibly have to score more purposes like the one that opposes burnley for his purpose account to continue.
The Son-Kane mix has led to more than part of Tottenham Hotspur’s goals so far this season, and at least one of them has scored or helped 14 of the Spurs’ 16 goals in 2020/21. a challenge if groups replace tactics to counter Son and Kane’s liaison game, or if one of the players gets injured.
Due to Harry Kane’s thigh injury and Son Heung-min suspensions, there were only 24 Premier League games last season in which either player could have played together, and more games would have been lost without the season’s break due to COVID-19. With Mourinho last season, the Spurs scored 2 game-consistent issues when either player was available, at 1. 36 game-consistent issues when one or either of them were away.
José Mourinho has discovered his winning formula in Son and Kane, but the Spurs’ good fortune this season will feature his form and continuous form.
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