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Son isn’t enjoying his best goalscoring season for Spurs but the South Korean star has still managed to chip in with 10 goals across all competitions for the Londoners. In the Premier League this season, only Dominic Solanke and Brennan Johnson have attempted more shots for Spurs than Son, and both of those players are expected to miss out this weekend due to injury.

Son has taken 41 shots in his 21 appearances in the league this season which makes for an average of 1.95 shots per game.

The 32-year-old forward has hit the target 21 times and has a shots on target ratio of 51.2% which is the second highest in the Tottenham squad. So while he hasn’t scored as many goals as he usually does, Son is still proving to be a key player for Tottenham especially with all the injuries they have had to forward players like Solanke, Johnson and Richarlison.

Morgan Rogers has been in great form for Aston Villa this season and is certainly one of their hardest working players, defending from the front. That aspect of his game might explain just why rogers has given away more fouls than any other Aston Villa player this season with the England international committing 38 fouls in 23 Premier League appearances.
With Rogers averaging 1.65 fouls per game in the league this season you can see why we have backed the Villa man to commit at least two fouls in the FA Cup tie against Tottenham.

In his last five appearances for Aston Villa in the league, Rogers has picked up four yellow cards, which only adds more weight to our prediction as the talented midfielder/attacker loves the physical side of the game and isn’t afraid to stand his ground against any opponent. Rogers has the worst disciplinary record in the Aston Villa team this season, picking up 8 yellow cards.

From foulers to the fouled, Youri Tielemans has drawn 39 fouls from opposing players in the Premier League this season and only John McGinn (41) has been fouled more for Aston Villa. Tielemans, a key creative midfielder who likes to get his foot on the ball, control the tempo of the play as well as picking out his teammates in the final third, is always going to be a target for opposition players looking to win back the ball.

The Belgian midfielder works hard in Unai Emery’s system and has 97 ball recoveries to his name this season, 16 more than his nearest teammate Lucas Digne.

Tielemans has had more touches of the ball in the league this season than any of his fellow Aston Villa players, 1559 compared to Ezri Konsa’s 1250, and when you are having some many touches in dangerous areas of the pitch, it’s not a surprise that you are one of the most fouled players in your team.