Watch Bentancur’s best debut actions for Spurs | Read the analysis

The 24-year-old Uruguayan saw 20-minutes of action against the Seagulls and made a thoroughly decent first impression. It’s rare the Spurs buy a player that looks to have hit the ground running, and even if this was ‘just’ 20-minutes and ‘just’ Brighton, there is certainly room for optimism.

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Forward passes

100% passing accuracy

Clearance

Total actions / 67% successful

There’s certainly a long way to go, before definitive statements about the boy can be made, but this was a pleasing debut that would surely see Harry Winks being rotated with greater frequency?