Son Heung-min fired Tottenham Hotspur past Preston North End on Saturday night and has now earned praise from Spurs legend Micky Hazard.
Spurs headed up to Lancashire for a potential banana skin against Championship side PNE.
The first half was a frustrating affair as Spurs struggled to break down a resolute North End defence.
Tottenham took over in the second half though with Son scoring a beautiful long-range strike.
Son added a second with a lovely turn and finish before new signing Arnaut Danjuma scored on his Tottenham debut.
Tottenham are through to the fifth round of the FA Cup with that 3-0 win, and they did it without Harry Kane even needing to step onto the pitch.
Micky Hazard praises Tottenham star Son Heung-min
There is a feeling that Son needed this kind of game.
The South Korean superstar shared the Premier League Golden Boot award with Mohamed Salah last season as he found the net 23 times.
This season has been a lot trickier for Son, whose confidence appears to have taken something of a dent.
Four goals in 19 Premier League games is an alarmingly-low tally for a player of Son’s quality.
There have been many theories floated; maybe the heavy workload in recent years is catching up to him, maybe having Ivan Perisic behind him means his space to cut inside is crowded, maybe his facial injury has been a big problem.
With just one goal in six Premier League games, Son needed a big performance from somewhere and it came on Saturday.
Yes, it was against a Championship team but Son showed outstanding quality with both goals to send Tottenham through.
Spurs legend Micky Hazard has taken to Twitter to praise Son, suggesting that he looked sharp throughout Saturday’s game in which he was used as a central striker.
Hazard now hopes that Son can really get back to his best moving forward, believing that this two-goal display could be the real catalyst for improvement.
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