Tottenham fans hail Heung-min Son’s last ditch goalline clearance in 2-1 defeat by Watford

Tottenham‘s Son Heung-Min produced a stunning goal-line clearance to prevent Watford defender Marc Navarro from scoring in their final match of pre-season on Saturday afternoon.

Son appeared to have little chance of stopping Navarro from finding the net after goalkeeper Paolo Gazzaniga went up for a 90th minute corner, but the Korean International raced back before making an excellent challenge.

Son’s impressive clearance was not enough to stop Tottenham from losing 2-1 at Vicarage Road but fans were quick to praise the forward’s efforts. 

Tottenham’s Son Heung-Min made an excellent goal-line clearance on Saturday afternoon

Watford defender Navarro picked up the ball just over the halfway line and laced one towards the empty goal. 

Son – who was wearing the captain’s armband for the first time due to players missing on international duty – raced back from inside Watford’s half to clear the ball off the line. 

Supporters took to Twitter to laud Son for covering over half a pitch to prevent Watford from scoring another goal in a ‘pointless friendly’. 

One fan wrote: ‘That goal line clearance by Son was incredible. Last second in a pointless friendly he sprinted back to do it I respect it’ 

While another added: ‘Son deserves man of the match for that clearance.’  

Son stopped Watford defender Marc Navarro from scoring in their final pre-season game

Fans were quick to praise the forward’s efforts during a ‘pointless’ friendly against Watford

However, Son’s impressive clearance did not stop Tottenham from losing 2-1 at Vicarage Road

Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho was also impressed with Son’s effort, telling the official Spurs website: ‘I would say that those are the positives, players who needed minutes had them, some players played 90 minutes.

I really liked the fact that in the last minute, we are fighting to try to score, and then Sonny makes a 100-metre sprint to stop the 3-1 on the counter-attack.’

With the Premier League starting next weekend, Tottenham will take on Everton at home on Sunday.