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It's kind of weird but Tottenham literally always overperform xG basically since it became a stat. Part of it was Kane, but Son is actually statistically a better finisher.
It's an interesting counter for people who say that xG tells you who 'should' win a game, because this is more than a trend it's almost an inevitability. In theory it's no different to a team that has great creativity and crap finishing, but one will show up as a great team on xG and one won't.
Son is a massive outlier when it comes to xG, most other players eventually regress to the mean.
Not saying this as a biased spurs fan but considering he’s been with us 8 years and I could probably count on 1 hand the amount of “sitters” he’s missed, he’s an extremely clinical finisher. He just always scores when he gets a chance that you would expect him to score. There’s no other player I’d feel more comfortable running through on goal in a 1 on 1 situation