Son Heung-min stepped off the bench to fire a 13-minute hat-trick and cap another goal-filled Premier League win against Leicester City at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday evening.
Three vital points at @SpursStadium 💪
🎥 Highlights: Spurs 6-2 Leicester pic.twitter.com/Pb7JVAOP0S
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) September 17, 2022
An incredible display from substitute Son Heung-min helped Tottenham Hotspur come from behind to defeat struggling Leicester City, a result which moves them level on points with Manchester City at the top of the table.
The South Korean is the first Tottenham Hotspur player to score a hat-trick in the Premier League as a substitute, and the first in the competition since Steven Naismith against Chelsea in September 2015.
Hat-trick ✅
Hero ✅ pic.twitter.com/l4EPsgSHW7— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) September 17, 2022
13 minutes 21 seconds. pic.twitter.com/Q7dvNjUWRx
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) September 17, 2022
Son Heung-min’s treble was the fourth hat-trick Tottenham have scored against Leicester in the Premier League – no side has netted more against a specific opponent in the competition.
Youri Tielemans had put the Foxes ahead on six minutes from the penalty spot but Spurs responded through headers from Harry Kane and Eric Dier.
Tottenham’s 17 points from their seven Premier League games this season is their joint-best record at this stage of a campaign, level with 2016-17 when they finished as runners-up to Antonio Conte’s Chelsea
After the match Tottenham Hotspur coach Antonio Conte said , “It was an important win, to get three points was vital for us. I thought we started well, but after 10 minutes we conceded a penalty. Then, Hugo was good to save the penalty, but to have another bad situation was not so good for the confidence, but, at the same time, we were very good to score the two goals. After that, we lost a bit of confidence to play the ball, I saw my players a bit scared, I don’t know why, but we have to work on this aspect.
“In the second half, we have seen another game, we played with confidence, with great energy. In the first half, around 20, 25 minutes, we didn’t have so much energy. In the second half we had a lot of energy. That means that maybe we have to improve our mentality and manage that well.”
🎙 “Vital for us”
Antonio gives his verdict on our 6-2 victory in N17 ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/E6RCbD99gS
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) September 17, 2022
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