Liverpool will have several reasons to be wary of Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday. But midweek provided a reminder that the north London side have lost their biggest threat.
Harry Kane's penalty in Bayern Munich's 2-2 Champions League semi-final first-leg draw at home to Real Madrid was the England captain's 43rd goal in as many matches since his move to Germany last summer.
Liverpool would have been glad to see the back of Kane. He scored nine goals in 16 appearances against them for Tottenham and despite winning just one of those games, he was always a dangerman when they two sides faced off.
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But he wasn't the only one, and the Reds might be just as worried about Kane's old partner in crime, the ever-impressive Heung-Min Son.
Son may be considered one of the nicer players in the Premier League, but Liverpool and their departing Jurgen Klopp still have reason to be sick of the sight of the South Korean forward. He has, after all, scored five goals in his last six Premier League appearances against the Reds, and six in 14 appearances in total for Spurs, while he returned five goals from five starts against the Klopp's Borussia Dortmund.
Yet while Son would remain unbeaten when starting against the German boss in the Bundesliga during his time with Hamburg and Bayer Leverkusen, it’s a different story from his meetings with the Reds.
Locking horns with Liverpool on 16 occasions, Tottenham's infamous 4-1 victory at Wembley in October 2017, in which he scored, and then their controversial 2-1 home triumph in September, in which he scored again, are the only times Son
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