Son's 1st league goal seals Spurs' win vs Crystal Palace

LONDON (AP) After dishing out Korean food to his new Tottenham teammates, Son Heung-min served up his first Premier League goal.

The South Korea forward capped a dynamic display against Crystal Palace on Sunday by completing a second-half counterattack to seal a 1-0 victory at White Hart Lane.

With shot-shy Harry Kane looking short of confidence and yet to find the net in the league, Son's instant impact is taking the heat off last season's top scorer.

An 18-million-pound (about $28 million) signing from Bayer Leverkusen in August, Son has now netted three goals in three days, having opened his account for Tottenham with a double in the Europa League on Thursday.

''I hope every week is like this,'' Son said. ''It's amazing, really another style to the Bundesliga - (more) power and speed and I like this. I'm really happy here to play.''

After facing weeks of questions about Tottenham's failure to sign a No. 9 in the summer transfer window, Mauricio Pochettino now hopes fans are seeing how versatile Son can be in attacking positions.

''His performance was fantastic, the energy he showed was amazing,'' Pochettino said. ''Son is a player we followed for a long time. He's a player who can play No. 9, 10, 7, 11 - in all different positons up front.''

With Son in the side, Tottenham has won all three games. And, having been substituted in the 79th minute, Son returned to the field after the final whistle to thank each of his teammates as the new fan favorite was cheered by the home crowd.

''You can see he's a very friendly boy,'' Pochettino said. ''After one week with the team he brought very good Korean food to the training ground ... it was very good.''

The Argentinian manager helped himself to a big dish of it. In future he will be satisfied if Son only delivers goals.

In Sunday's London derby, Son's strike came in the 68th minute after Tottenham rapidly broke down the left flank.

Christian Eriksen fed the ball to Son, who burst through the Palace defense before striking through goalkeeper Alex McCarthy's legs to secure Tottenham's second win of the six-game-old league season.

It proved to be the winning goal only possible because a minute earlier Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris tipped Bakary Sako's shot onto the post.

''You can see he is happy in Tottenham and you can see the influence he has in the game,'' Lloris said. ''He always has a lot of movement, he has great skills. He will help the team make a step forward.''