Jermain Defoe has backed Son Heung-min to score ’25 Premier League goals’ for Tottenham Hotspur this season after beating Fulham 2-0 on Monday night.
There are a lot of plaudits heading James Maddison’s way this season, and rightly so, but Defoe thinks that Son Heung-min is the ‘dream to play with’ at Tottenham.
The 31-year-old was handed the captain’s armband for a reason in the summer and Ange Postecoglou is now being rewarded for that call.
Alongside James Maddison, who scored against Fulham last night, Defoe feels that Son Heung-min is a ‘top, top footballer’, as he told Premier League Productions (23/10/23 at 8:55 pm).
The 31-year-old has seven Premier League goals to his name this season (transfermarkt), already closing in on the ten he scored under Antonio Conte last season.
The season before that, he won the Premier League’s Golden Boot, so he is proving that he has the quality to be the top man in the league.
Yes, it’s going to be hard to overcome a man like Erling Haaland, but if anyone can run him close or even beat the Manchester City man, then it’s Son Heung-min or Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah.
Son Heung-min at Tottenham
“Amazing finish,” said Defoe about Son. “He actually lets the ball run across his body to just get an extra yard, but once he gets into these positions, you know what he is going to do. He has mastered that finish. His numbers have just been amazing this season.
“I can’t really see him stopping, to be honest. When he is in this sort of form. He is always going to score goals – the way he is playing, at the minute, if you keep him fit, then he can score 25 Premier League goals.
“Amazing footballer. It must be a dream to play with him. Then you bring someone like Maddison, just those two together. They are top, top footballers. I just love watching them.”
Tottenham sitting top of the Premier League table
This is the best start a new manager has made during the Premier League era, with Ange Postecoglou picking up a remarkable 23 points from his opening nine Premier League games.
In the summer, after missing out on Europe and after Harry Kane left, all the Spurs fans wanted was a lift.
The mood around Hotspur Way was the lowest it had been for a very long time, but the supporters just wanted a change.
If Spurs were sitting seventh in the table right now, with a contrast in a change of play, then the fans would have been pretty happy about it.
But to be sitting top of the league, playing like they are, and also keeping clean sheets, then it’s pretty special.
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