Son Heung-Min scored a first-half brace as Tottenham continued their perfect run in pre-season with a 4-3 victory over Team K League in South Korea on Wednesday.
2024 Club Friendlies
3-4
Match Events
0' The match is about to start!
17' Highlight from K League All Star vs Tottenham
29' GOAL! K League All Star 0-1 Tottenham (Dejan Kulusevski)
38' GOAL! K League All Star 0-2 Tottenham (Heung-min Son)
47' GOAL! K League All Star 0-3 Tottenham (Heung-min Son)
51' Highlight from K League All Star vs Tottenham
52' GOAL! K League All Star 1-3 Tottenham (Stanislav Ilyuchenko)
54' GOAL! K League All Star 2-3 Tottenham (Stanislav Ilyuchenko)
67' GOAL! K League All Star 2-4 Tottenham (Will Lankshear)
81' GOAL! K League All Star 3-4 Tottenham (Oberdan)
Match Report
On home soil, the forward scored twice in 10 minutes, with Dejan Kulusevski and Will Lankshear also hitting the target for Ange Postecoglou's side.
Oberdan set the game up for a nervy finish after Stanislav Iljutcenko's double, but they could not find a winner at Seoul World Cup Stadium.
Kulusevski got the ball rolling, latching onto Son's saved effort before picking out the bottom corner to edge Spurs in front before the South Korean delighted the crowd with two clinical finishes.
Second-half substitute Iljutcenko scored two goals in as many minutes shortly after his introduction, though Lankshear stuck out a leg to give Spurs a two-goal cushion with 23 minutes to go.
Oberdan's strike was the pick of the bunch, with a wonderful looping volley from outside the box after Spurs failed to clear a corner, and Brandon Austin had no chance of stopping it from hitting the back of the net.
Son certainly made his mark in his 63 minutes on the pitch in Seoul, having the joint-most shots (four), with all of them on target, and his expected goals of 0.56 was only bettered by Lankshear (0.74).
Postecoglou could not have asked for a better pre-season, with Spurs winning all five of their pre-season friendlies so far. With a double-header against Bayern Munich to come before their Premier League opener away at Leicester City, the North London side look to be in good nick.
Line-ups
K League All Star XI: Cho Hyun-Woo, Min-kyu Joo, Myung-jae Lee, Seung-Woo, Jin-seob Park, Dong-gyeong Lee, Jun Choi, Seung-wook Park, Ho-yeon Jeong, Min-hyuk Yang, Do-young Yun
Subs: Matej Jonjic, Cesinha, Wanderson, Stanislav Ilyuchenko, Mun-ki Hwang, In-jae Hwang, Anderson Oliveira, Marko Tuci, Jae-hee Jeong, Oberdan, Italo
Tottenham XI: Son, Ben Davies, Guglielmo Vicario, Kulusevski, Aparecido, Pedro Porro, Brennan Johnson, Pape Matar Sarr, Archie Gray, Lucas Bergvall, Jamie Donley
Subs: Werner, Maddison, Whiteman, Manor Solomon, Bissouma, Austin, Skipp, Djed Spence, Radu Drăgușin, Dane Scarlett, Alfie Devine, Alejo Véliz, Will Lankshear, George Abbott, Luca Gunter, Mikey Moore, Tyrese Hall