Player Watch Player Watch: Son Heung-min

[ClintEastwould]

I can remember the Bournemouth one and today obviously, but what was the other one?

Andre Gomes Everton.

 

[JimmyG2]

One red card is a misfortune;
two red cards looks like carelessness
three red cards is petulant unforgiveableness.

 

[dagraham]

Andre Gomes Everton.

Oh yeah, of course. Probably forgot because it was rightly rescinded. Still an act of petulance though. He has to learn, he’s not a kid anymore.

 

[philll]

Oh yeah, of course. Probably forgot because it was rightly rescinded. Still an act of petulance though. He has to learn, he’s not a kid anymore.

Yeah it's slightly unfair to count that towards his red card total for the year but I don't know of another player who has 2 (Shelvey maybe?). It was 3 very clear and defined acts of hotheadedness though.

 

[bat-chain]

Totally unacceptable today, Rudiger cheated but only because Son was stupid enough to allow it.

Three times, very similar things, people will not give him the benefit of the doubt anymore.

 

[13VanDerBale13]

Love the guy but he needs to be told enough is enough, 3 times he's been sent off for us & we've not won any of them, hopefully someone has a word with him

 

[ShaunL84]

I hate how he plays the victim card when he gets sent off.

 

[G Ron]

Shocking end to a shocking game from him - I thought he was extremely poor (in keeping with the rest of the front 4). To make matters even worse we now lose him for the three games over Christmas when we would have likely rotated to keep players fresh. He needs to learn to keep a lid on it as it’s costing us.

 

[L-man]

Absolutely ridiculous from him today

At a crucial, busy time of the season when rotation is going to be key, he's just ruled himself out of the entire Christmas period and heaping a load of pressure on his teammates, unacceptable. Most players don't even get three red cards in their career and he's got 3 in less than half a season. He clearly isn't the nice guy he's perceived to be

He's really starting to let us down in crunch matches. Bournemouth last year, Man City away which left him suspended for the first leg of Ajax and now this.

 

[Dirtysanchez6]

Have to say think he has actually been very poor this season trying to do way too much himself and as a result is getting frustrated resulting in things like today 3 times in his last 17 appearances now

 

[allatsea]

Rank stupidity once again. We have too many players who are in a footballing sense thick.

 

[Kiedis]

Have to say think he has actually been very poor this season trying to do way too much himself and as a result is getting frustrated resulting in things like today 3 times in his last 17 appearances now

Jesus Christ. He's had 10 goals and 9 assists and been by far our best attacking player. If our other outfield players had matched his quality and intensity this season, we'd be sup there with City and Leicester.

That being said, opponents now know that he's easily rattled and will keep targetting him. Rudiger delivered an expertly hidden strike an Son gobbled up hook, line and sinker.

 

[1882andallthat]

A great player on his day but these acts of petulance where he lashes out are no longer one off's anymore and he will start to get targeted even more, and miss vital games. It must not be allowed to carry on, someone in our coaching team needs to sit him down an spell this out to him very firmly, and the fact that he will now inevitably get targeted for this, if he wasn't already, because I think Rudiger knew he was provoking him. The way he reacted was exactly the same way as Beckham did with Simeone, but Beckham was a kid by comparison, he wasn't 26, and he learned from it !

What makes it all the more frustrating is that he'd won a free kick in a potentially dangerous area, if we'd scored from that we drag ourselves right back into the game at 2-1 and the whole crowd react in a positive way and turn the heat on Chelsea in a good way, we will never now know whether or not that could have happened now, but the momentum of that was completely thrown away and it swung completely Chelsea's way as he got sent off, it was the final blow which consigned us to certain defeat in that game, 2-0 and a man down is a whole lot different to 2-1 with 11v11 and momentum swinging our way, and he must be made aware that these are the effects that are being had on the team in the game itself and then as a result of losing him for 3 games at a time.

Whilst there can be no excuse for mindless idiots in the crowd reacting in the way they did, by throwing things and alleged racist outbursts it did clearly spark these reactions, that now put us under a real spotlight in a negative way off the pitch.

Imagine as I said if Son hadn't reacted and he got up we took the free kick and scored, the place would have been absolutely rocking in a great way and we could have applied real pressure to Chelsea, with just over 30 minutes left. Instead the place and the atmosphere turned into chaos and negativity than now puts a whole different complexion on matters.

 

[hughy]

One red card is a misfortune;
two red cards looks like carelessness
three red cards is petulant unforgiveableness.

So he's at the carelessness stage then.

 

[Shadydan]

Yeah it's slightly unfair to count that towards his red card total for the year but I don't know of another player who has 2 (Shelvey maybe?). It was 3 very clear and defined acts of hotheadedness though.

The point is the petulance he showed on that occasion, there's a pattern emerging.

 

[Primativ]

Still really angry with him. His petulance could have seen him miss 9 fucking league games (nearly a quarter of the season) of the league campaign, but it will still be 6. He should be fined really, he needs to be taught a lesson.

 

[Nicki78]

I wonder if he might get a fine. Hard to say as certainly to the media Jose seems to think he was hard done by. Behind the scenes he may have a different view though.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Really difficult not to condemn his temperament at this stage. Forwards in the premier league get roughed up, rightly or wrongly. If he can’t handle it without losing his cool then he becomes a liability.

Kane takes equally roughly treatment too, he’s far smarter in how he gives it back.

 

[simsy886]

I'm one of Son's biggest fans, but that was inexcusable. Totally lost the plot now.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Sess's time to shine.