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Son Heung-min scores his 12th career UCL goal... setting a new Asian record

2019-04-18 66 Dailymotion

Tottenham Hotspur forward Son Heung-min has been on fire as of late... and his red-hot form continued Wednesday night in his team's second leg Champions League quarterfinal against Manchester City.<br />Lee Seung-jae reports. <br />Epic is an understatement,... to describe the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinal match up between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City.<br />After scoring the lone goal in Tottenham's 1-nil win in the first leg,... Son Heung-min didn't wait long to add more goals to his already impressive tally.<br />After Man City got on the scoreboard after just four minutes,... the South Korean international answered back with goals in the 7th and 10th minutes,... scoring a double in the first 10 minutes of the match.<br />The match ended with Manchester City winning 4-3,... but a 4-4 aggregate with Tottenham scoring 3 big away goals,... means the London club advance to the semi-finals.<br />Son, however, will not be able to play in the first leg of the semis,.. with a yellow in this match,... the second he's accumulated in the quarter-finals.<br />Despite that, the double gave Son his 19th and 20th goals in all competition this season,... but also his 12th career goal in Champions League play.<br />He surpasses Uzbekistani legend Maksim Shatskikh ,... who scored 11 career Champions League goals during his career.<br />Son scored his first ever Champions League goal back in 2014,... while he was with Bayer Leverkusen in Germany's Bundesliga at the time. <br />Fast forward less than 5 years,... he's now the top scoring Asian player in Champions League history.<br />Lee Seung-jae, Arirang News. <br />

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