Son Heung-min was booked for diving in Tottenham Hotspur’s win.
Son Heung-min told Sky Sports’ live post-match coverage of Tottenham’s win against Leicester (broadcast on 10/2 from 15:30) that he was angry after receiving a yellow card for diving during the first-half.
The forward went to ground inside the box in the 16th minute as he looked to take the ball around Harry Maguire. Maguire immediately protested his innocence and the referee agreed with the Foxes defender.
Maguire certainly sticks a foot out, and it arguably appears to be a very harsh yellow card. Son perhaps does not help himself with how he goes to ground, but his path is impeded by the opponent. And after the game, Son insisted that he felt that he should have won the penalty.
“My feeling, it was a penalty, he touched me and he was a little bit late,” he told Sky Sports.
“I thought it was a penalty but he gave me a yellow card. I was very, very disappointed and I was surprised. But a referee decision is part of football, we have to accept it. Of course, I’m disappointed and a bit angry but I think we have to take that.”
For Spurs, the incident did not prove costly. Davinson Sanchez and Christian Eriksen scored either side of the break to put Mauricio Pochettino’s side 2-0 ahead.
And when Jamie Vardy set up a nervy finish with a goal for Leicester 14 minutes from time, it was Son who put the result to bed with a great finish on the counter attack in stoppage-time.
The three points leave Spurs five points off the Premier League summit. So it certainly seems fair to say that anyone suggesting that the title race is simply between Manchester City and Liverpool may well end up eating their words come the end of the campaign.
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