Mauricio Pochettino predicts who will win the Champions League

Mauricio Pochettino has guided Tottenham Hotspur into the quarter-finals of Europe’s premier competition and they will face domestic rivals Manchester City in the last-eight. The Argentine boss has admitted that Barcelona are the favourites to get their hands on the Champions League trophy. "Barcelona is the favourite to win the Champions League," he told Mundo Deportivo. "Barca has excellent players, extraordinary players and then has a genius. "It’s different, he [Messi] does things that nobody expects and continues to surprise. What surprises [me] is his regularity, his consistency. He does it in every game, every three or four days, during the last 11 or 12 years, which he leads in the first team. "I’ve been lucky to have seen it and I’ve also suffered it. It’s a shame not to have had a player like that on my team." Spurs were beaten by Barcelona at Wembley in the group stages, although they did secure a 1-1 draw at the Camp Nou to assure their passage into the last-16.

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