"One more goal should have been scored" Son Heung-min couldn't even laugh at his fourth goal of the season... "91 minutes lost" Tottenham draw 2-2 at home with Rome
"One more goal should have been scored" Son Heung-min couldn't even laugh at his fourth goal of the season... "91 minutes lost" Tottenham draw 2-2 at home with Rome
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Son Heung-min (32) scored his fourth goal of the season, but he couldn't laugh. Tottenham Hotspur missed the win, conceding an equalizer in extra time.
Tottenham tied AS Roma 2-2 in the fifth round of the UEFA Europa League (UEL) league phase of the 2024-2025 season at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England on the 29th (Korea time).
With this result, Tottenham ended up with one more point and recorded 10 points (three wins, one draw and one loss). As the ranking fell to ninth place in terms of goal difference, the team was slightly pushed back from the top spot to the round of 16 teams. Rome was ranked 21st with six points (one win, three draws and one loss).
Tottenham started with a 4-1-2-3 formation. Starting players include Son Heung-min, Dominic Solanke, Brennan Johnson, Pape Sar-Dejan Kulusevski, Rodrigo Bentancur, Archie Gray-Ben Davies-Radou Dragusin-Pedro Porro, and Fraser Forster.
Rome pulled out a 3-4-3 formation. Stefan El Sharawi - Artem Dovik - Paulo Dybala, Anhelyno - Leandro Paredes - Manu Kone - Zeki Chelik, Evan Ndika - Mats Hummels - Zanruka Mancini and Mile Svillar were among the first.
Tottenham took the lead in an instant. Two minutes into the match, Sar tripped over Hummels in the box and won a penalty kick (PK). The referee did not admit the foul at first, but declared the PK through VAR.
The "exclusive kicker" Son Heung-min took charge of the PK. He calmly deceived the goalkeeper and scored the first goal by penetrating the net. It was the first goal of this season's UEL stage and the fourth of its kind. It was also the eighth goal in his UEL career. It was the first time in two years and a month that Son scored at a match against Frankfurt in October 2022.
Roma quickly brought the game back to square one. In the 20th minute of the first half, Dybala scored a sharp free kick in front of the goal from the left side. The ball hit Ndika on the shoulder and hit the crossbar before being sucked into the goal. The score was tied 1-1.
Rome, which gained momentum, almost turned the game around in an instant. In the 22nd minute of the first half, Dybala stabbed a sensible lobbing pass into the box. El Sharawi connected it with a fantastic volley and shook the net. However, Tottenham took a breather as offside was declared after VAR review.
Tottenham, which overcame the crisis, took the lead again. In the 34th minute of the first half, Kulusevski broke through the left side and scored an accurate ground ball cross. Johnson rushed in and finished with an accurate left-footed shot, making an additional goal to lead again.
Son Heung-min missed a multi-goal opportunity. In the 35th minute of the first half, Kulusevski's shot in the box bounced off the post. Son Heung-min connected it with a right-footed non-stop shot, but the ball went over the net.
Son Heung-min swallowed the disappointment once again. In the 40th minute of the first half, his teammate's shot deflected off the defense and passed to Son Heung-min on the left side of the box. Son calmly curled it to the other side with the defense in front of him, but the ball got stuck at the goalkeeper's fingertips.
Tottenham finished with a 2-1 lead in the first half. Son Heung-min showed off his light movements until extra time and cracked the Roman defense, but he did not earn any more income.
The Roman bench moved first. Coach Claudio Ranieri took out Dybala and put in Matthias Soule at the beginning of the second half. Roma rushed in. Paredes shot with a pass from Dubeyk in the 6th minute of the second half, but it was blocked. Roma also scored when Dubeyk shook the net but was called offside.
The goalposts blocked both teams' shots. In the 15th minute of the second half, Angelino volleyed a cross from the right, but it deflected and hit the crossbar. Moments later, the prisoner's right-footed shot hit the crossbar. 안전놀이터
Son Heung-min exited the stadium. Coach Engie Postecoglou called in Son Heung-min and Bentancourt at the 32nd minute of the second half, and deployed Lucas Veribal and Timo Werner to make changes. He seemed to be paying attention to the arrangement of Son's physical strength, which had recently suffered from hamstring problems.
Tottenham didn't last for the last five minutes. Spurs had a one-goal lead thanks to Foster's good defense, but allowed Hummels to equalize in the first minute of extra time in the second half. Hummels became the hero of the theater goal by putting his foot on Angelino's grounder cross from the left. The match ended in a 2-2 draw.