Tottenham head coach Antonio Conte has little doubt Son Heung-min will hit the aim path quickly, declaring the ahead’s temperament would even make him an ideal son-in-law.
Son shared the Premier League’s Golden Boot award with Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah final season however is but to search out the web within the 2022-23 marketing campaign.
Harry Kane has as an alternative been the principle supplier of Spurs’ objectives of their 4 video games to date, and it was Kane’s double that noticed off Nottingham Forest 2-0 on Sunday.
But Conte has no considerations over Son, who he believes is the right instance to his squad of an upstanding man.
“Sonny is a very wise participant. He’s a high man, a very good man. If I had to discover a husband for my daughter, I would really like it to be an individual like him,” Conte mentioned in a information convention.
“In these moments possibly he’s struggling quite a bit as a result of he’s not scoring, however he has to proceed to belief in himself as a result of in each sport he has an opportunity to attain.
“He must be calm. We belief him. For positive he’s a bit disillusioned he’s not scoring, but it surely’s no drawback for me. Son will at all times be a part of my soccer imaginative and prescient.”
Kane has now scored 201 league objectives throughout his profession, together with 14 outdoors the highest flight whereas on mortgage with Leicester Metropolis, Millwall and Leyton Orient.
He additionally matched Andy Cole on 187 Premier League strikes, changing into the joint third highest goalscorer within the competitors’s historical past, behind Alan Shearer and Wayne Rooney.
The England captain may have had a hat-trick, however Forest goalkeeper Dean Henderson stored out a second-half penalty.
39 – For the reason that begin of March, Tottenham have picked up extra factors within the Premier League than every other crew (39), profitable 12 of their 17 video games on this time (D3 L2). Spectacular. pic.twitter.com/1xEKv5WNMO
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Henderson has now conceded from simply one of many 5 Premier League penalties he has confronted, one of the best document of any goalkeeper to face at the least 5 spot-kicks within the competitors, and Conte refused to criticise Kane for failing to beat the Manchester United loanee.
“I believe he didn’t miss the penalty; it was a giant, massive save from the goalkeeper. It was an unimaginable save,” Conte added.
Kane atoned for his failed spot-kick try, which ended his run of 15 consecutive spot-kicks scored within the league for Tottenham, with a stooping header to make it 2-0 within the 81st minute, with Spurs’ big-money signing Richarlison supplying a high-quality cross to tee up his fellow ahead.
Richarlison was the topic of a hefty problem from Brennan Johnson quickly after, with the Brazil attacker having annoyed Forest by performing kick-ups near the touchline.
“I wouldn’t need my gamers to do what Richarlison did. It wouldn’t be accepted right here,” mentioned Forest head coach Steve Cooper, although Conte defended his participant, insisting Richarlison meant no disrespect.
