Son Heung-min has “little question” Tottenham Hotspur will bounce again within the “largest sport of the season” towards Arsenal on Sunday.
Spurs have had a two-week break since dropping 4-0 away at Newcastle United, a consequence that head coach Ange Postecoglou described as “self-inflicted” and a part of his facet’s “painful” progress as a workforce.
They now have the chance to reply towards their largest rivals at home and it is an opportunity captain Son insists they are going to be able to take.
“We need to be prepared,” he mentioned. “It was an unacceptable consequence and unacceptable efficiency, as properly from me.
“As a gaggle, we’re speaking loads about this sport and efficiency and everyone is aware of methods to step up, they’ve all been enjoying lengthy sufficient within the Premier League or an expert workforce. So they’re working actually onerous to bounce again.
“It will probably be a extremely good sport to bounce again and clearly the motivation will probably be even larger than in different video games so I believe we have to simply work onerous till the sport and do our type of play. Then there is no doubt we will bounce again.”
Son has scored six instances towards Arsenal within the Premier League and he’s assured he can keep that type towards Mikel Arteta’s title-chasers.
“I’m at all times the kind of man with full confidence going into the video games, believing in myself,” he mentioned.
“Every single sport is identical mindset. It does not inspire me much more as a result of it is Arsenal. Every single sport is large for me and an opportunity to point out how spectacular I will be.
“It’s not necessary who scores the objectives or that I scored six objectives beforehand on this sport. I simply should be prepared for the largest sport of the season.”