There must be something in the water in Tottenham's academy - as well as perhaps in the Westerlo area - after a spate of wondergoals from the club's young players on loan in recent weeks.

While Spurs' first team are in the middle of a tough run with injuries galore, the young players taking some time away from the north London club have been showing what they're made of. Not only have they been catching the eye with their performances but they have also scored a spate of eye-catching goals.

The most recent came on Wednesday night when Jamie Donley started 2025 with a bang as he curled a left-footed free-kick from a wide angle on the right-flank all the way inside the left-hand post to pull Leyton Orient level before they won 3-2 at Bristol Rovers in League One. The curling kick from a tight angle sent the Orient players wild and meant the 19-year-old has three goals and two assists from his past four matches in the league.

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Donley isn't the only Spurs player at Orient getting in on the act of scoring goals that the fans have been left talking about long afterwards as goalkeeper Josh Keeley stunned everyone in the FA Cup second round tie against Oldham by powering a last-gasp header from a free-kick into the back of the net in the ninth minute of added time to send the game to extra-time, which Orient then came through with a 121st-minute winner.

Keeley is no slouch in his day job either as he broke an Orient record with seven consecutive clean sheets recently and the 21-year-old has nine in total from his 13 League One games for the club.

Last week, a Tottenham player-to-be scored a wondergoal in Belgium when 17-year-old Luka Vuskovic, on loan at Westerlo before he officially joins Spurs this summer, executed a remarkable bicycle kick after a deep cross was headed back to him in the Club Brugge box. The rocket of a shot was the big teenage centre-back's sixth goal of the season.

Spurs midfielder Alfie Devine is at Westerlo as well and has also scored some superb goals in recent weeks. In that Boxing Day game at Brugge, the 20-year-old netted with a clever run, touch, turn and finish inside the left-hand post and last month fired home a delightful volley in a 4-0 win against Kortrijk.

Then there's 19-year-old George Abbott, who has netted two fantastic goals in recent weeks among three strikes for Notts County. One looping effort from distance came in the FA Cup against Peterborough on the same day as Keeley netted his effort for Orient and Abbott's strike ended with the Peterborough keeper running into the side of his goal.

Then on Sunday, during County's 5-3 win at Cheltenham, a corner was cleared to the edge of the box and the versatile midfielder cut across the ball perfectly with a bending half-volley that rocketed in high off the inside of the right-hand post.

It's not just the loan players who are hitting wondergoals this season as academy youngster Luca Williams-Barnett scored from inside the centre circle for Spurs' U18s twice in three games.

His most recent came in November when the 16-year-old collected the ball midway inside the Tottenham half, skipped past a challenge and let fly from just beyond the halfway line. It was a similar strike to the one he scored at West Ham the previous month.

Despite still being a schoolboy, Williams-Barnett has been on the bench four times for Ange Postecoglou's first team this season, on three occasions in the Europa League and once in the Premier League.

While Tottenham need something for now, it's clear that there's plenty of talent coming through for the future at the north London club.

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