Watching Son Heung-min playing for Tottenham Hotspur is a strange experience right now.
This is not the Sonny the Spurs fans know and love yet through sheer relentlessness he's getting the job done.
The South Korean star does not look like a confident, dominating player who has scored six goals in his past five games, netting in every single one of those matches.
Yet he has. Once again Son has proved to be Tottenham's saviour when they need him the most, finding the net regularly when Harry Kane is recovering from injury and when the goals just don't look like coming, even if this time he's not playing through the middle.
In truth, Son hasn't really looked himself for a while, perhaps since returning from that red card against Chelsea, some would say since that wonderful individual goal against Burnley back in early December.
His fans back home in South Korea are growing restless. The consensus over there is that he's being played in a wide role that asks plenty of him defensively, almost like a wing-back, and it's ruining him.
Some South Korean fans hanker for the Pochettino days and others even want Son to move on from Tottenham to a side where he is utilised to his maximum potential.
The truth is Son's form isn't really down to where he's playing - if anything he's not got the task of tracking back too much under Jose Mourinho.
He's just not firing on all cylinders right now and it shows in his confidence the tasks that are normally so basic for him.
Sometimes his touch is loose, he will often dribble into defenders rather than past them and he's wasting chances by the bucketload - although, to be fair, he's not alone in that.
Yet when it comes to the crunch, Son continues to be there for Tottenham.
For a player who is struggling for confidence he's still managed to score 16 goals and laid on nine assists this season.
That means Son has been directly involved in 25 goals in 32 matches for Tottenham this campaign.
That's pretty remarkable yet he knows he can do more.
Even after the euphoria of scoring his dramatic 94th minute winner at Villa Park, Son was honest as ever in his assessment of his performance.
"I played very bad because I had a couple of chances to score and finally in the last seconds I scored the winning goal," he said.
Strangely his winning touch was the most composed thing he did all game.
After a string of misses and even a first goal that was fortunate after Pepe Reina saved his penalty kick, Son showed real composure to seize upon a mistake by Bjorn Engels, race half of the pitch and slot the ball nervelessly past the Spaniard, who had saved almost everything else until that point.
Even his post-match interview for the club's social media channels was interrupted by a smiling Mourinho who asked the interviewer: "Are you going to ask him about the goals he scored or the goals he missed?"
football.london asked Mourinho moments later exactly why he thought Son's performances weren't quite matching the eye-catching numbers he was producing.
"The problem with Son and Lucas, the problem with especially these two guys is they have to play 90 minutes every game," he said.
"That's the problem and if they run out of fuel then we are in trouble but their quality as players is fantastic, their attitude towards the team is absolutely incredible and I am so, so pleased for them."
He added: "A team without Harry [Kane] is finding obviously difficulties, the difficulties are the nature of the Premier League, but in the middle of the difficulties we are finding a different way to play football.
"We are finding a different way to create opportunities and to score enough goals to put ourselves in a position to fight for a good position in the table."
While it could be argued that Son and the Spurs players have just returned from 10 days off and the South Korean star has also missed five matches this campaign through suspension, cumulative tiredness could well be an issue with his efforts for club and country in recent seasons now coming back to haunt him.
Or it could just be a case of Son needing to find his rhythm and that finish and the celebrations at Villa Park could help him get there.
He's still very happy at Spurs. He's popular with everybody at the club from the players to the coaching staff and with those who work around Hotspur Way and the stadium.
The fans adore him and such is his popularity back home that Tottenham have considered heading over to South Korea this summer on tour.
While Son is scoring goals aplenty his struggles around them seem minor. It's just makes you wonder though what he could be producing if he was firing on all cylinders.
