Heung-min Son is Tottenham Hotspur’s best signing in years

There’s a young man from South Korea lighting London on fire, and he’s wearing a Tottenham Hotspur shirt. Son Heung-min was the biggest summer signing that Spurs made this year, and while it’s early days, he looks worth every penny. The Herculean performance he put in against Crystal Palace was rewarded with a fantastic goal, and he’s quickly become one of Tottenham’s best and most important players.

Elsewhere in the Premier League, Liverpool confused their way to a draw with newly promoted side Norwich City, and Manchester United strolled through their match with Southampton, earning a fairly easy win thanks to young Anthony Martial.

Here are all the scores, plus three big things from Sunday’s action.

Many Tottenham fans were far from certain about Son when he was signed from Bayer Leverkusen. They didn’t know much about him, Spurs paid a fairly large fee for him and the whole thing seemed to bring back bad memories of signing Erik Lamela for many fans.

Fortunately, so far he’s been anything but another Lamela. Son’s first appearance last weekend was solid and encouraging, then he went and scored a crucial brace in Tottenham’s 3-1 Europa League win after they went down 1-0 early in the match. On Sunday, he scored another decisive goal, converting on a stellar effort that left Crystal Palace defenders bamboozled.

Frankly, it’s hard to think of a better signing that Tottenham have made over the last few seasons. Spurs still might not be where they want to be as a team, but thanks to Son, they’re a pretty darn good one right now, and he could be one of the keys to help them reach their goals.

Brendan Rodgers dug into his bag of tricks to get his side playing better, starting Daniel Sturridge for the first time this season and using an oddball shape that he’s played with variations of before.

Of course, using such a formation with Jordan Henderson still out injured means that James Milner will have to be active and good for it to work. How did that go?

Oh.

The match was kind of a mixed bag from Liverpool. A poor showing from Milner and a hamstring injury for Christian Benteke were balanced out by an excellent performance from Alberto Moreno and surprising sharpness from Sturridge, who spent the vast majority of the last year injured. They even saw Danny Ings score his first Liverpool goal, which is good to see.

Working on set piece defense would probably be a good idea, though. All their spells of dominance were outdone by five bad seconds on a corner. That’s been an all-too-familiar tale for Liverpool the past few years.

The young French striker was hugely impressive on his debut against Liverpool last week, looked solid in the Champions League, and looked solid once again Sunday against a solid Southampton team.The 19-year-old had a goal in each half as part of a loaded Manchester attack, and despite all the complaints about him when he was signed, Martial looks like the real deal.

Make no mistake, Manchester United almost certainly spent too much money on Martial. That’s what they get for waiting so deep into the transfer window to buy a player at a position they desperately needed reinforcements at. But the longer he keeps up this level of performance, the more United fans won’t mind Martial being around.