History made, records broken in our victory over Elfsborg
Fri 31 January 2025, 14:30|
Tottenham Hotspur
Three Academy graduates — Dane Scarlett, Damola Ajayi and Mikey Moore — found the net to seal our 3-0 win over Elfsborg and help us book our place in the Europa League round of 16.
This trio of scorers is special not simply for securing the result, but for the notable statistics and history recorded on such a memorable night.
Thursday’s win marked the first time in just over 20 years that the Club has had three players scoring their first goals in Lilywhite in the same game.
On New Year’s Day in 2005, Dean Marney, and Reto Ziegler and Pedro Mendes all opened their Spurs accounts in a thrilling 5-2 win over Everton — a feat matched last night in N17.
Notably, the three scorers last night were also all English. You have to look back 10 years — also to a New Year’s Day game, as fate would have it — for three Englishmen to get on the scoresheet in the same game.
On that day in 2015, Harry Kane, Danny Rose and Andros Townsend – another three youngsters who made their names in Lilywhite - did the damage in a momentous 5-3 win over Chelsea at White Hart Lane.
Highlights | Spurs 5-3 Chelsea | January, 2015
Looking specifically at Mikey, his goal makes him the fourth-youngest goalscorer in the Club’s history. Only Alfie Devine, Frank Saul and Andy Turner were younger when grabbing their first Spurs goal.
Additionally, the 17-year-old also became the youngest English goalscorer in major European goalscorer since Lilywhite icon Jimmy Greaves - a record that was held for an astonishing 68 years.
Finally, Damola Ajayi’s goal within three minutes of his Tottenham debut made him the 109th player to score on his first appearance for the Club — the first since Arnaut Danjuma a shade over two years ago.
