Lucas Bergvall is starting to adapt to life at Tottenham Hotspur and it means a prediction from his long-time childhood coach could prove to be remarkably accurate.

The 18-year-old has come off the bench in the past three matches for Spurs and has impressed with tidy, impactful displays in all of them. Bergvall's performance in helping Tottenham earn a point at Rangers in the Europa League on Thursday night earned praise from his head coach Ange Postecoglou.

"I thought Lucas was excellent when he came on. He was due to start tonight but wasn't feeling well today. He was a bit under the weather," he told football.london. "We had to keep him on the bench, but that's a massive positive for us. Those two as 18-year-olds to be already contributing and experiencing these things will be of enormous benefit to us."

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He added in his next press conference on Friday morning ahead of the Premier League game at Southampton: "Lucas is really growing into it. We can see he's starting to really feel comfortable at this level. He's showing a real maturity for an 18-year-old and I think that's hugely positive for us. By design you don't want to throw young players into it but I think we'll get enormous benefit from it for sure."

That all ties in perfectly with what Swedish coach Peter Kisfaludy told football.london back in February after Spurs sealed a real coup when they signed the 18-year-old ahead of Barcelona in an £8.5million deal from Swedish side Djurgarden. Kisfaludy is the sports coordinator from the Djurgarden academy to the first team and also worked with Bergvall as a youngster for years at his childhood club Brommapojkarna before engineering his move to join him across Stockholm.

He explained back then what would happen with Bergvall and how long it would take the talented teenager to adapt to life in the Premier League.

"I think it's going to take six to eight months [for him to be ready for the Premier League]. He's going to need some time although my experience of really, really good players, well with Lucas I had him at Brommapojkarna with the academy on June 10, 2022 and on July 16, five weeks later, he was making his debut for the first team in the Superettan, the Swedish second division," said Kisfaludy.

"That team got promoted to the Allsvenskan, the top division, and he would have played in it for them but we bought him directly and took him to Djurgarden. You could see it was a higher tempo than Brommapojkarna have but he acclimatised, he took three or four weeks and then he was there.

"Of course it will take a little bit longer at Tottenham because it's another level but I think he will take it. Technically and reading the game, it's no problem for him because he's playing such fast football always [in his mind]. The main thing for him is the tempo. He needs to come up to that and I think it'll take six months or so."

That prediction of six months is looking remarkably accurate with Bergvall joining Spurs officially on July 1, but arriving a couple of weeks earlier to prepare for life in England, so it's not far off his six month anniversary at the club.

With Rodrigo Bentancur and Yves Bissouma both suspended for the Premier League game at Southampton, Bergvall could be handed his first Premier League start. Kisfaludy and Postecoglou will both be hoping his long-time former coach was absolutely right about him.

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