Timo Werner will not want to watch this missed chance again...Spurs on the break after a poor cross from the home team, Sarr releasing Moore down the right. The 17-year-old made the wise choice with a well weighted ball across for Werner, but inside of passing the ball into the net first time, he took a heavy touch when trying to round the goalkeeper. Forced wide and shot over. Werner looks bereft in front of goal currently.
Spurs endured a shaky start to this match but they will be relatively pleased with how they have calmed things down since their goal. They are now pushing much higher up the pitch and keeping the ball in opposition territory.
You can see why Moore has generated so much hype in recent years. His talent is obvious, and he and Pedro Porro have done well down the right wing.
They’ve been with us from the start of pre-season, they are full fledged members of our squad. Mikey has got some minutes, Will had an injury. We’ve wanted to give them some minutes and tonight is a good opportunity to do that. I have no fear about putting them in.
The best way for us to keep the momentum going is to use the full squad.
European games are always different from the Premier League: different opposition, different stadiums and difference conditions that we’re going to have to deal with.
It’s a great atmosphere, they’re good at home. Every team in Europe deserves to be here.
He was one of the greatest people I’ve ever come across and I feel really fortunate to have had those three years with him, where I was able to sit there and talk to a person who in the football world had done everything, but more importantly, a person who I had so much respect and admiration for.
I still think about it and it still feels unreal to me that I got that opportunity being based in Australia. As you get older you keep those experiences even more.
I would love for him to still be around today to see where I am because he played a role in me becoming certainly the football manager I am. He played a role in that but also the person I’ve become.
It’s certainly a bold team selection by Ange Postecoglou, with Will Lankshear and Mikey Moore both given their full debuts for the club.
Moore is one of the most exciting talents in the country, and is the youngest player to appear for Spurs in the Premier League. A brilliant dribbler, he is seen by many as the best player to come out of the Spurs academy in years.
Lankshear, meanwhile, joined Spurs from Sheffield United in 2022, for around £2 million. He had previously been released by Arsenal, much like Harry Kane, another striker who made the leap from the Spurs academy into the first-team...
After the recrimination and searching questions that followed last month’s north London derby defeat - which left Tottenham with four points from four Premier League games - things have picked up for Ange Postecoglou’s team.
Granted, they required a late turnaround at Coventry City in the Carabao Cup after failing to impress for most of the game, but Djed Spence’s equaliser that night could prove to be a sliding doors moment.
Spurs then came from behind to beat Brentford 3-1 in the Premier League, vanquished Qarabag 3-0 with 10 men before delivering their most impressive performance under Postecoglou at Old Trafford on Sunday.
As tends to be the case with Spurs, there was a helter-skelter feel to these wins: they fell behind inside a minute against Brentford; saw Radu Dragusin sent off and Qarabag miss a penalty; and benefited from a Bruno Fernandes’ red card against Man Utd. There is no question that Spurs were the better team though, and their possession and territorial dominance is starting to pay dividends.
With a trip to Brighton on Sunday, Postecoglou may well be considering some rotation for tonight’s Europa League away game against Hungarian side Ferencvaros. Spurs already have three points on the board in the competition’s new league phase, and are expected to require around 12 more points from their seven remaining games to reach the last 16. So there is margin for error.
Postecoglou’s options are limited by injuries to Destiny Udogie, Djed Spence and Sergio Reguilon. Ben Davies is expected to start at left-back. Dragusin would have started this one, but is suspended, so Spurs must decide whether to risk Cristian Romero and Micky van de Van or deploy Archie Gray as centre-back. Yves Bissouma and Lucas Bergvall are likely to start in midfield.
Despite their name, Ferencvaros have no connection to Farenc Puskas - who played his club football for Honved before joining Real Madrid - but the trip to Budapest may have some resonance for Postecoglou. Puskas managed Postecoglou at South Melbourne Hellas, and the Spurs manager has cited him as one of the foremost influences on his coaching philosophy.