Impressive stats but the reality is there is more to playing football than scoring goals yourself. This stat may forgive him missing chances he should score for instance, but does he create enough for other players?
He is dispossessed way too often, which I see as his greatest failing as it can have high consequences for the team. And he often makes stray passes. He also bottles some challenges. In particular he seems more effective off the bench and has worse games when he starts.
I like Son a lot but he needs to improve these weaknesses. Of course, he is young and talented, we should be patient with him. I would not start him against the likes of Chelsea until he improves.
I'd say he has been responsible for alot of our points this season:
1st 2 goals at Stoke - gave us 3 points
2 goals at Boro - 3 pts
MoM v Citeh and an assist - 3 pts imo, we absolutely wouldn't have won it with Jansen up top, can't press like that
Wet Spam - 2 assists in last 2 mins to turn 1-2 into 3-2, 3 pts
Nice that he scored v Swans and Saints, but I give these pretty much zero weight as the games were won by then.
I really don't know understand the carping, in his 2nd season when the first was badly disrupted by injury. His finishing was poor v Watford in a game we won 4-1. I cant think of a single PL match this season where he's missed a really good chance that has cost us. But the evidence above shows how many pts his goals and assists have given us. And I bet Ive missed some assists.
I bet Kane likes it when he plays, he takes such a lot of the burden just through his running and pace, and creating space.