Son Heung-min Photo: VCG

 

Spurs South Korean superstar striker Son Heung-min continued his remarkable rise with four goals against Southampton in the visitors 5-2 win away at St Mary's last weekend.

Son scored with all four of his shots - with each of his goals assisted by Harry Kane - to become only the 28th member of the English Premier League's four-goal club.

Efan Ekoku was the first player to do it back in the second ever Premier League season bagging four for Norwich City against Everton in a 5-1 win at Goodison Park.

In between, some of the biggest names in EPL history have scored four or more goals in a single game: Alan Shearer, Jurgen Klinsmann, Mohammed Salah, Wayne Rooney, Thierry Henry, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Gianluca Vialli, Mark Viduka, Frank Lampard, Andrey Arshavin, Robbie Keane, Jermain Defoe, Louis Saha, Edin Dzeko, Luis Suarez, Georginio Wijnaldum, Romelu Lukaku, and Kane himself.

But what those players have in common is only doing it once. Sure some may have scored five - as Shearer and Defoe did - but they only once scored four or more. Son has time on his side (as do Kane, Salah, Antonio and Wijnaldum of the players still in the Premier League) to enter this even more exclusive club of players to have done it more than once.

Robbie Fowler (Liverpool)

The first man to enter the club was the man that one half of the city of Liverpool called "God." He scored his first foursome in a 5-2 win over Bolton Wanderers in September 1995 and then did the same in a 5-1 thrashing of Middlesbrough the following December.

Fowler was an early star of the Premier League era but never won the title, playing for Liverpool in two stints, Leeds United, Manchester City, Cardiff City and Blackburn Rovers over 15 years in the Premier League.

Andy Cole (Manchester United)

The first player to score five in an English Premier League game, Cole hit that milestone in a 9-0 humiliation of Ipswich Town at Old Trafford in March 1995, 18 months after Ekoku had hit the first four. Cole then later hit four in a game against Newcastle United in a 5-1 win over his former club in March 1999 as United honed in on the Premier League trophy as part of their famous Treble. Cole would win the Premier League five times while at Old Trafford.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (Manchester United)

The current Manchester United boss has perhaps the most famous four-goal haul of them all, as his first came not only as a substitute but in the space of just 10 minutes against Nottingham Forest in February 1999 - a month before Cole scored four against Newcastle. That game ended 8-1 and Solskjaer holds the record for the most goals scored by a substitute in a Premier League game. He netted his second four-goal haul came the following season in a win over Everton that finished 5-1. Solskjaer collected six Premier League winners medals in his time as a player at Manchester United.

Michael Owen (Liverpool)

The England wonderkid was still a teenager when he put four goals past Nottingham Forest in a 5-1 win for Liverpool in October 1998. It would be a whole five years before Owen would do it again, with this time the victims West Bromwich Albion who lost 6-0 to the Reds at The Hawthorns. That game in April 2003 also saw Owen net his 100th goal for Liverpool.

Owen would be named the Ballon d'Or winner in 2001 and then move to Real Madrid from Liverpool in 2004. He would return to the Premier League with Newcastle United and then win the title with Manchrester United during a brief stint in Manchester.

Dimitar Berbatov (Tottenham Hotpsur and Manchester United)

The languid Bulgarian has the honor of scoring four goals in games for two different Premier League clubs ­- Spurs and Man United. The first of these came in a ding-dong battle between Spurs and Reading in December 2007 that finished 6-4 to the Londoners.

Berbatov then went one better after moving north to Old Trafford when he scored five in a 7-1 over Blackburn Rovers in November 2010. Berbatov would lift the Premier League twice at Old Trafford.

Yakubu Ayegbeni (Portsmouth and Blackburn Rovers)

The Nigeria striker followed Berbatov into the four goals for two teams club, with a gap between the hauls even longer than Owen's five years. Yakubu did it first for Portsmouth in a 5-1 win over Middlesbrough in May 2004 and then again seven and a half years later with Blackburn ­Rovers. That came with all of Rovers goals in a 4-2 win over Swansea in December 2011.

Sergio Aguero (Manchester City)

The one and only player in the history of  Premier League to have scored four or more goals on three separate occasions, the Argentine international has been a goal machine since arriving in England from Atletico Madrid in 2011.

His first came in a 4-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur in October 2014, where Aguero netted all of his side's goals. He then helped himself to four the following season as City handed out a 6-1 spanking to Newcastle United.

Aguero's record breaking third haul came in Febuary 2018 as City beat Leicester City 5-1 on their way to a first Premier League title under Pep Guardiola. He has won the Premier League four times with City.