Son Heung-min disgusted his manager Antonio Conte during Tottenham Hotspur’s Premier League outing this evening.
That’s according to Sky Sports reporter Lewis Jones who was live at the Amex Stadium.
The South Korea international scored a hat-trick out of nowhere during Tottenham’s victory over Leicester City last month, coming on as a second-half substitute to do so.
But the former Bayer Leverkusen forward – a £22 million signing in 2015 [The Guardian] – continues to look out of sorts, exemplified by one moment in the second half this evening.
Son had a glorious chance to make it 2-0 to Spurs and he found himself with the opportunity to take the shot on himself or pass to the well-positioned Ryan Sessegnon, but in the end he chose neither and the chance broke down.
And according to Jones, the Italian manager was very disappointed in his player on the sidelines.
He said on Sky Sports: “Oh, Sonny. It’s still not really happening for the South Korean this season. Sessegnon did brilliantly to find him and all he needed to do was slip his teammate back in but he ran down a cul-de-sac. Conte turned away in disgust on the touchline.”
It was Harry Kane who fired the North Londoners into a 1-0 lead at the break, brilliantly flicking home a cross from Son.
Well, it wasn’t really a cross from his Spurs teammate, but that’s how excellent Kane’s header really was.
It was, on the whole, another subdued performance from Son who did, to his credit, have a stunner disallowed.
Conte and every Tottenham supporter out there would’ve been hoping that his treble against the Foxes could’ve finally sparked him into life, into the player everybody knows that he is, but it looks like it was a false dawn at the moment.
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