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Tariq Hinds shows his quality

He may not be the tallest, but 16-year-old Spurs left-back for the day Tariq Hinds has plenty of energy and an eye for goal.

Normally a right-back, his two first half strikes - his first goals of the season - would have satisfied any of the Tottenham strikers at any level of the club as he left two different Swansea goalkeepers clutching at thin air.

The first came on 13 minutes after Samuel Shashoua got down the left and found Jack Roles who stumbled in the Swansea box and the ball rolled to Hinds. The defender struck a low effort past visiting goalkeeper Ross Treacy.

Treacy needed to go off injured soon after following a collision with Spurs attacker Reo Griffiths and he was replaced by Alex Long in goal.

Despite making a couple of decent saves in his first few minutes, Long could do nothing about Hinds' second goal.

He cut inside on to his stronger right foot and from the edge of the Swans' box curled an absolute beauty of a shot around Long's outstretched glove and inside the right-hand post. Who says defenders can't score with their feet?

Flying full-backs are now the Tottenham way

With Danny Rose and Kyle Walker flying down the wings from their full-back slots for the first team, it appears that that attacking mentality is very much being instilled down the various levels of the club.

The likes of Kyle Walker-Peters, Joe Muscatt and Nick Tsaroulla, an U18 player who turned out for his U23s debut on Monday night, are all attacking full-backs within the development squad, while both Hinds, Matt Lock and Jaden Brown like to get forward for the U18s.

In years gone by Spurs have sometimes had full-backs in the first team that were more part of the backline rather than an attacking threats.

However, with Pochettino expecting his attacking width to come from the full-backs, the club is seemingly looking to produce a conveyor belt of like-minded defenders and there are plenty of talented kids hoping to follow Rose and Walker into the first team one day.

Jack Roles is an all-action player of old

The 18-year-old is an old fashioned box-to-box midfielder. From the first whistle Roles was throwing himself into challenges and putting his body on the line to block Swansea shots on the edge of the Spurs box.

He also has a reputation for arriving late in the opposition box and he showed his attacking ability early in the second half.

A Shashoua free-kick found Jonathan Dinzeyi in the Swans' box and the ball broke to Roles who drove it straight back past Long in the visitors' goal.

His display deserved the goal and he was substituted later in the half, having given plenty of effort to the cause.

The case for the defence

Spurs' defence was impenetrable on the day. Lock and Hinds sat on either side of the imposing TJ Eyoma and Dinzeyi with skipper George Marsh often in the Victor Wanyama role, sitting in front of the back four, mopping up any loose balls and frustrating Swansea's attacking midfielders.

It was testament to the young Lilywhites' organisation that Swansea's only shot on target came in the final moments with a free-kick from distance by substitute Causso Darame that was comfortable for Spurs' goalkeeper Brandon Austin.

Credit is also due to the young stopper's concentration after 90 minutes where he'd had little do other than be buffeted by the wind and rain that he showed such good hands in the only opportunity he had to use them.

Shashoua's got ability aplenty but he isn't the only one with skills

The eye is naturally drawn to Samuel Shashoua on the football pitch. He's got a bag of tricks, a low centre of gravity and is tough to knock off the ball.

The diminutive dribbler scored a fine goal in the second half, controlling Keanan Bennetts' cross perfectly before sliding a low shot past the onrushing Swansea goalkeeper. That sealed the 4-0 rout, but he had other chances to score and was involved in most of the goals in some capacity.

One late run in the match, past two or three Swans players, deserved to end with his name on the scoresheet for a second time, but his powerful effort from distance cannoned back off the crossbar.

There are high hopes for Shashoua within the academy and it won't be long before he's a more regular feature of Ugo Ehiogu's development side.

That's not to say he's alone in the skills department. Bennetts is a tricky winger and Pablo Gonzalez showed some nice touches when he came on in the second half.

He could have added a fifth goal to the scoresheet with a curling shot that was saved well and a header just over the crossbar.

Tottenham Hotspur like their creative players and they have plenty coming through the ranks.