Son calls for media to 'protect' players after recent criticism

Son Heung-min believes recent comments have gone too far, and everyone needs to do more to help players

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00:00 No, this has been general and it's been some comments that I can't even repeat.

00:11 So yeah, it's all general.

00:13 So yeah, it's the most important thing is that player has to get protected from outside,

00:20 from player side, also from the media side.

00:23 It was a tough result to take, but I mean, big credit from the Malaysia team and yeah,

00:31 I think they fighted until the end and I was very, very pleased to see this and for Asian

00:39 football.

00:40 So, but as a Korean team, I think we are a little bit disappointed the way they finished

00:47 the game.

00:48 But yeah, the most important thing is now we are round 16 and then we move on and because

00:54 the most important games are coming ahead, so we have to prepare and then we have to

00:58 be ready for the big games.