in order to help ease the growing burden on the Spurs strikers, a dependable third source of goals has emerged in North London this season and is currently sitting third on the squad's list of top goal scorers.
Indeed, no team has benefitted more from "Own Goal" in the Premier League this campaign than Tottenham, with six now scored by opponents in their favour following Kurt Zouma's errant effort in Sunday's 3-1 victory over West Ham. Man United, Southampton, Everton, Brentford, Aston Villa have come before. And no other team has more than two this season.
In truly formidable form, "Own Goal" has now registered 10 times for Spurs in all competitions so far (with the other four coming vs. Brighton, Pacos De Ferreira, Rennes and Vitesse), making it the club's third-highest goal scorer behind Kane and Son, and comfortably above the next highest entrants: Lucas Moura (six), Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and Steven Bergwijn (both 3).
To put that in continental context, no team across Europe's top five leagues have had more own goals scored in their favour than Spurs (six) in 2021-22, with the next highest beneficiaries being Barcelona (5) in Spain's LaLiga.
Over in Germany, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen have all had four own goals go their way in the Bundesliga so far this term, while Juventus and Milan (4) jointly lead the way in Italy's Serie A, and Strasbourg and Lille (3) top the chart in France's Ligue 1.