Jose Mourinho has confidently predicted that Tottenham Hotspur player Son Heung-min will score against Norwich City when the two teams go head to head in the Premier League on Wednesday night.
The South Korean star has struggled to find his form in the past month, failing to register a goal or assist in his past six matches, which sandwiched a three-match suspension following his red card against Chelsea.
That has been an even bigger problem for Tottenham than it normally would be because of Harry Kane's absence with a ruptured tendon in his hamstring.
In the past Son has bridged the gap during Kane's injury-enforced absences with his goals, but that has not been the case this time.
Mourinho was asked what he has has made of his player's performance in recent games.
"I think he is playing fine, he is not finding the goal," he said. "In every match we can go to situations where he could score.
"We go for example to Watford and in the first half he had that run with a long pass that instead of controlling he hit it with the first touch and it went over the bar.
"We had one in the second half when on the middle right he hit a very strong shot over the bar too.
"The situations are there, attacking players need confidence, confidence comes with goals not with words or hugs – they come with goals. Fantastic player, fantastic boy, great professional, he is the kind of player that even if he doesn't score goals he is good for the team."
Mourinho then added his confident prediction about the South Korean star.
"They are some kind of strikers that if they score they are brilliant, if they don't they don't give anything for the team," he said. "He gives us so much even if he doesn't score that I am not so worried about it, the goals will arrive and I believe it will be tomorrow [against Norwich]."
