WALKING ON SON SHINE

White-hot winger is so good it’s scary, says Dazza

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TOTTENHAM legend Darren Anderton has hailed the impact Heung-min Son is having on his old club this season.

The South Korean star returned from Asia Cup duty with a bang, scoring the goal that prompted Spurs’ come-from-behind win against Watford in his first game back then bagging the only goal of the match against Newcastle three days later.

Those strikes made it 10 in his last 12 Premier League outings and, crucially, cially, the more recent ones have arrived ved at a time when Spurs have been n without talisman Harry Kane.

Anderton (right), who played around 300 games for Spurs between 1992 and 2004, said:

“The way Son has played this year, he has been absolutely on fire.

“When he first came he excited ed the crowd, but sometimes maybe he’d give the ball away and in the final al third his quality wasn’t that good.

“But he has just got better and better, which is typical of players under Mauricio Pochettino – he just improves them.

“Now Son has so much self-confidence, he gives 110 per cent, he’s direct and defenders must hate playing against him because he doesn’t just do the easy thing.

“He runs behind them, he gets the ball and tries to get at them, he shoots and his quality, left or right foot, is different class.

“He has been one of the players of the season in the Premier League.

“He had a great World Cup as well but just in terms of what he has done for Spurs this year, he has been outstanding.

“He is getting every single thing that is possible out of himself as a player and you have to appreciate t that.”

Like Son, whose side take on Leice Leicester today, Anderton was an

imm immensely gifted winger.

Sharper

But, laughing, Dazza added: “I don’t know if there are any similarities between us – he’s s sharper than me.

“He’s a great finisher and when wh he’s out wide he gets the ball and delivers.

“That’s “Tha the biggest thing, he makes things hap happen, just through doing the right thing in the final third – getting shots in, producing crosses.

“That’s what I used to think and what my old coaches would say: ‘Get in the final third and it’s crosses and shots, crosses and shots.’ It entertains the crowd as well, gives them a lift. When you’re playing you can feel that anticipation, you can feel the sense in the crowd when you get the ball that you can do something. It’s a pretty good feeling.

“Son is quite unique. Sometimes when players do things that quickly and at pace, and have that much energy and try that hard, they lose a bit of quality, but he doesn’t.

“You see wingers getting the ball and dribbling past one, dribbling past two and then they get sloppy, the final ball is nowhere near good enough.

“That could have been said of many wingers over the years. But that’s not the case with Son – he has the full package.

“When Son plays, teams become scared of him and they sit deeper and deeper, and that gives Dele Alli and Christian Eriksen, and those players who also have that real quality, the space to make things happen as well.

“He’s also running at the same intensity in the 90th minute as he is in the first – it’s actually quite frightening.”