Top 5: Premier League Players of the Weekend

Heung-Min Son (Tottenham)

Photo: Mark Leech / Offside.

The South Korean international continued his rich vein of scoring form with a brace against Middlesbrough, his third and fourth league goals of the season, equalling his total for the last campaign.

The 24-year-old put Spurs ahead on seven minutes as he took Vincent Janssen’s lay-off in his stride before beating Callum Chambers and firing the ball under goalkeeper Victor Valdes.

The three-time Korean Footballer of the Year then doubled his tally with a superb strike from the left side of the area into the opposite top corner with his right foot.

Boro halved the deficit in the second-half through Ben Gibson, but Mauricio Pochettino’s men hung on to move into second place in the Premier League as they host leaders Manchester City at White Hart Lane this Sunday.