App exclusive: Spurs 4-0 Wolfsberger AC - the numbers
Thu 25 February 2021, 17:17|Tottenham Hotspur
On Wednesday evening, we booked our place in the Europa League round of 16 with a 4-0 win over Wolfsberger AC.
Having already defeated the Austrian outfit 4-1 in the first leg of our round of 32 clash in last Thursday’s meeting in Budapest, Hungary, we further asserted our dominance in the tie as we cantered home in the return leg. Dele, who was making his eighth start of the season, ran the show in north London, scoring our first with a stunning overhead kick before assisting Carlos Vinicius for our second of the night and then Gareth Bale for our third. Vinicius then wrapped up the scoring, as he did a week earlier at the Puskas Arena, with our fourth in the final ten minutes.
Here’s a look at some of the key statistics and numbers behind the game...
Marching on in Europe
8 - Our round of 32 win over Wolfsberger AC was our biggest aggregate win in any European tie since we defeated Dinamo Tbilisi 8-0 on aggregate in a Europa League play-off round tie in August, 2013. Excluding qualifiers, it was out biggest aggregate win in Europe since a 9-0 win over Braga in the first round of the UEFA Cup in 1984.
26 - In scoring four goals in each leg of our 8-1 aggregate win over Wolfsberg, we became the first English side to manage that feat in over 26 years. Newcastle United were the last team to do so as they scored five in each leg of their UEFA Cup first round win over Royal Antwerp in 1994.
8 - It was the first time a Jose Mourinho side has scored eight goals across a European knockout tie since Real Madrid defeated APOEL 8-2 on aggregate across two legs in March and April, 2012.
4 - This is the fourth time we have progressed to the Europa League’s round of 16 in seven campaigns since the competition’s rebrand in 2009.
5 – We have won all five of our home matches in Europe this season, scoring 20 goals and conceding just twice.
100 - We became the first English team to score over 100 goals in the Europa League – we have now scored 101 goals in the competition. We are the ninth team overall to reach that milestone while we are the third quickest to do so, having taken only 56 games to hit our century – Benfica (53) and Sevilla (55) are the only sides to have reached the landmark quicker.
Del-ightful
2 - It was only the second time in Dele’s Spurs career that he had been directly involved in three goals in a game. His previous hat-trick of goal involvements came in a 5-2 win over Southampton in the Premier League on Boxing day in 2017 - the forward also scored once and assisted twice that day.
2 - It was the first time since our 5-0 Premier League win over Burnley in December, 2019, that Dele has provided at least two assists in a game.
1 - Our number 20’s overhead kick was his first goal from open play since he squeezed the ball home against Norwich City in our 2-1 Premier League win over the Canaries in January, 2020.
11 - It was also our first goal scored with an overhead-kick in a competitive match in 11 years. Jermain Defoe’s bicycle kick against Manchester United in September, 2009 was our last such goal.
Bale’s impact
4 - Gareth Bale has been involved in four goals in his last three games for us (two goals, two assists).
2 - The only other time Gareth has scored as a substitute in a major European competition was in the 2018 Champions League Final. He came off the bench to score twice against Liverpool that night and win the European Cup for Real.
66 - The Welshman has now been involved in 66 goals in just 103 UEFA matches (33 goals, 33 assists).
Vinigol
4 - Carlos Vinicius is the first Spurs player to score in four consecutive European appearances since Jermain Defoe in November, 2013.
9 - The Brazilian has now been involved in nine goals in five starts for us in the Europa League (six goals, five assists).
53 - The forward is averaging a goal involvement every 53 minutes in our Europa League campaign.
9 - Only Harry Kane (21) and Heung-Min Son (18) have scored more goals in all competitions for us this season than our number 45 (9).
Youthful ambition
2 - Academy graduates Marcel Lavinier (aged 20) and Nile John (aged 17) made their first team debuts for the Club.
4 - At full-time we had four of our Academy graduates on the pitch – Harry Winks, Marcel Lavinier, Nile John and Dane Scarlett.
9 - So far this season, nine players to have graduated our Academy have played for our first team - Harry Kane, Harry Winks, Alfie Whiteman, Japhet Tanganga, Marcel Lavinier, Harvey White, Nile John, Dane Scarlett and Alfie Devine.
Dane Scarlett became the first 16-year-old to assist a goal in the competition since Kylian Mbappe did for Monaco in 2015/16. That goal involvement coincidentally came against us in a 4-1 win at White Hart Lane in December, 2015.
Other notable numbers
1 - We have now lost just one of our previous 34 games under Jose Mourinho when we have been leading at half-time (W25 D8). That defeat came against Wolves in March, 2020 (3-2).
2 - Matt Doherty has recorded an assist in each of his last two Europa League games.
7 - Erik Lamela completed seven take-ons in the game - three more than any other player on the pitch.
8 – We remain unbeaten against Austrian teams in competitive matches. Having played eight games against sides from the central European nation, we have won six and drawn the other two. That includes winning all four of those games which we have hosted, as well as keeping a clean sheet in each of them.