Ange Postecoglou said that the 3-0 victory of Thursday at Elfsborg was a victory “Made in Tottenham” when young people Dane Scarlett, Damola Ajayi and Mikey Moore came to the Score magazine.
Tottenham ensured a safe passage to the last 16 of the Europa League with all three goals in the last 20 minutes in the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
With Postecoglou against a long injury list, it was up to his young weapons to break a determined visiting defense.
With Scarlett (20, 312 days old), Ajayi (19 years, 34 days) and Moore (17 years, 172 days) all their first goals for the club, Spurs became the first English team to have three goal scorers under the age of 21 in a major European competition since Arsenal versus Slavia Prague in 2007.
On that occasion, Theo Walcott, Nicklas Bendtner and Cesc Fabregas were on the score sheet for the Gunners in the Champions League.
In the meantime, Moore became the youngest English player who once scored in a major European competition, broke the record set of Jimmy Greaves while playing for the London XI in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1957 (175 days old, versus Lausanne -Sport.
17 – Mikey Moore van Tottenham has become the youngest Englishman who scored a major European goal (172 years, 172 days) and break a record of Jimmy Greaves since 1957 (17, 245 days). Historical. pic.twitter.com/9ZHFA238IQ
– Optajoe (@Optajoe) January 30, 2025
“It was made tonight in Tottenham,” Postecolgou told TNT Sports.
“I am super satisfied for the young boys, and we should not lose sight of the fact that we also had a few teenagers.
“I'm sure those three boys won't sleep tonight. We needed something tonight and the young boys came up.
“The goal was to try to win today and secure our place in the top eight. I thought the boys were good, controlling the game and we were never really threatened.
“We had to wait for our time while they were deep, but they finally gave up to chase the game and the goals came.”
Three of our own
First traces goals for our @spurs_academy -graduates pic.twitter.com/zaju6g0yrs
– Tottenham Hotspur (@spursofficial) January 30, 2025
Postecoglou made three rest changes and withdrew Micky van de Ven, son Heung-Min and Richarlison in an attempt to protect some of his big names.
However, there was one relevant moment for traces, but as one of those to go into the fight at the break, Center-Back Radu Dragusin, was forced less than 20 minutes later.
“We have a big week at the arrival, so the changes during the break were about managing the load,” said Postecoglou. “We still picked up an injury with Radu, which is not great.
“It is too early to say what it is; we will have to investigate further. But it was his knee, which is not good. The three other boys are good.”
Reports on Thursday suggested that Tottenham is looking for a £ 50 million swoop for Bayern Munich attacker Mathys Tel In the last days of the January transfer window, and Postecoglou says they work to introduce reinforcements.
“We have another game on Sunday,” he said. “The club will work hard behind the scenes to see if we can get something done.”
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