Sarr and Johnson on target as Spurs hold on to Europa League win over Ferencvaros | Europa League

Brennan Johnson scored for the fifth game in a row to help young Tottenham to a hard-fought victory over Ferencvaros in the Europa League.

Ange Postecoglou named four teenagers in his Budapest line-up and it was an excellent run from 17-year-old Mikey Moore on his full debut to set up Pape Matar Sarr’s opener in the 23rd minute.

It was Sarr’s second goal in the competition and after Spurs withstood some late pressure from the Hungarian champions, Johnson rounded off the points with a left-footed finish with four minutes remaining.

Barnabas Varga set up a thrilling finish when he smashed home the ball in the 90th minute, but Tottenham held on to make it five wins in a row.

Postecoglou made seven changes from the weekend win at Manchester United, handing full debuts to academy graduates Moore and Will Lankshear.

An intimidating atmosphere greeted Spurs’ youthful team onto the pitch as the Ferencvaros fans made a lot of noise, but the visitors settled down after Varga sent over an early effort.

The influence of Moore, who in May became the youngest player to play for Tottenham in the Premier League, began to grow with a fine dribble followed by a beautiful throw in front of goal.

Lankshear headed over Timo Werner’s cross a few minutes later before Sarr’s low effort was saved by Denes Dibusz after an excellent pass from Yves Bissouma.

Ferencvaros had the ball in the net in the 16th minute when Ben Davies was caught out of position and Adama Traoré headed in Eldar Civic’s cross, but the offside was ruled out and eventually confirmed after a lengthy VAR check.

It lifted the home side and Postecoglou’s men had to weather a storm, with Guglielmo Vicario forced into an excellent save to deny Varga from close range, even though the ball had initially gone out of play.

Moore continued to impress and after booking Civic, the highly rated youngster helped create the opener for Spurs. A sharp dribble took him past Cristian Ramírez and his attempt at Lankshear rolled perfectly for Sarr to score from six yards.

Tottenham’s players celebrated in front of the 1,200 traveling supporters before Sarr went close again with a right-footed effort after Lankshear’s clever lay-off.

It was almost 2-0 again when Pedro Porro cut inside Mohammad Abu Fani and curled a left-footed effort that hit the post and eluded Lankshear.

The second half was briefly postponed after 49 minutes due to smoke from flares blown off by Ferencvaros supporters making themselves visible. Vicario had already denied Matheus Saldanha at that point, but the visitors regrouped and substitute Cristian Romero had a header converted before Lankshear fired away.

Chances continued to be created by Spurs and they should have scored twice in quick succession just after the hour mark. Firstly, Archie Gray shot at Davies after being surrounded by Ferencvaros players and the ball was recycled to Bissouma, who played in Lankshear, but the young forward was tackled.

Two minutes later and another fast break saw Moore produce a beautiful through ball for Werner, but he tried to round Dibusz and shot into the side netting. Postecoglou turned to Dejan Kulusevski, James Maddison and Johnson in the 65th minute.

Johnson almost clinched the points with ten minutes to go, but shot against the crossbar after Gray had played it in. Ferencvaros smelled blood and after Cebrail Makreckis shot wide, Gray had to block Abu Fani’s shot before Johnson secured the victory.

After Dominic Solanke’s intended pass to Johnson was cleared by Maddison, he played the ball back to the Wales international, who cut inside and curled into the bottom corner off a deflection.

Varga set up a nerve-wracking finale when he rifled home Ramírez’s cross as the clock showed 90 minutes, but Postecoglou saw his team hold on to make it two wins from two in the league stage.