Tottenham finally got their season started with a thumping 4-0 win over Crystal Palace on Saturday.
The game marked their first clean sheet of the season and moved them up to third in the table.
The official Tottenham Twitter page celebrated the win with a five-word tweet, highlighting one of Heung-min Son’s goals, saying, “This is how we play”.
It’s a quite brilliant goal, that starts off with a backpass to Hugo Lloris. Six quick passes later and Son volleys into the goal from an excellent cross from right-back Serge Aurier.
This is how we play ??? #THFC ?? #COYS pic.twitter.com/ETbAUJ1XD4
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) September 15, 2019
Son got two goals in the game and Aurier provided two assists in his first game of the season.
He had said he wanted to leave Tottenham in the summer but has now done a u-turn and promised to take his second chance at the club.
Son was the man-of-the-match according to WhoScored with a 9.3 rating, while Aurier got the third-highest rating of any player on the pitch with an 8.1.
This was a real team goal, though, and Tottenham fans were absolutely thrilled by it. Here are the best reactions on Twitter:
What a cross, Serge ????
— Pra. (@thfcpra) September 15, 2019
Serge was the key !
— Osman ???? (@Osmanovitchh) September 15, 2019
Wow!!!!
— Dzidefo Mensah (@Dzidee003) September 15, 2019
Aurier hasn’t lived up to his £22.5m price tag yet. He suffered from injuries last season and only made eight appearances in the Premier League, getting an average rating of 6.85 from WhoScored. You have to go back to the 13/14 season for his best form, when he scored six goals and added seven assists in 34 games for Toulouse. He played at centre-back, right-back and in midfield in that season.
He’ll be battling Kyle Walker-Peters for the right-back spot now. Walker-Peters was preferred at the start of the season and Davinson Sanchez was preferred to Aurier for the north London derby. This performance should put him in with a big shout of holding onto his place for the Champions League game against Olympiakos on Wednesday.
OMG????????
— Berta Zsombor.1. (@1Zsombor) September 15, 2019
What an amazing strike ????????
— Patrick Boswell (@patrickboswell) September 17, 2019
That’s simply brilliant ??
— C (@Cheuk8964) September 15, 2019
Son is ????????????????
— Muchedzi???????? (@kidfrankie3) September 16, 2019
Loved Sonny’s display of the dark arts off the ball, 11 seconds into this. Not sure how he gets away with that, but glad we didn’t have an excellent team goal chalked off. Winks and Eriksen’s contributions underrated there imo.
— Mr Bish (@bishely) September 15, 2019
Tottenham fans hailed Son’s performance as well. He’s scored 12 goals in each of the last two Premier League seasons and looks like he’s back up to speed after missing the first two games of this season through suspension.
One fan spotted something in the move, though, and said he “Loved Sonny’s display of the dark arts off the ball 11 seconds into this. Not sure how he gets away with it…”
Son seemingly had his eyes more on the Crystal Palace right-back than the ball halfway through the move and we’re not entirely sure what he was thinking when he raised his arms, but in the end there wasn’t a lot in it and the Palace defender didn’t complain.
That’s simply brilliant ??
— C (@Cheuk8964) September 15, 2019
That's my vintage spurs right there?
— Abhishek Rj (@ABHISHEK15raja) September 16, 2019
Legend
— Sandra Boadu (@SandraBoadu8) September 16, 2019