Coach of Tottenham Hotspur admits that without Messi, every group in semifinal of Champions League has the same chance of winning that title

News24xx.com - Barcelona is called to be the best candidate to win the Champions League this season. The existence of Lionel Messi makes the Catalan club considered to have a great opportunity to be the winner of Champions League. The Champions League now has reached the semifinal phase. Besides Barcelona, ??the other candidates are Tottenham Hotspur, Ajax Amsterdam and Liverpool. Spurs is facing Ajax to fight for the ticket to the final and for Barca they are facing Liverpool.

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino believes that the semi-final winners will be difficult to predict. But Messi will be a differentiator for Barca. Spurs and Barca have faced each other in the group phase round. The result, The Lilywhites lost once and drew once. Messi once broke Spurs' goalpost when Barca won with a final score of 4-2 on October 3rd 2018.

"There is no superior team if we look at what happened in the quarterfinals, but personally I am sure that the best team is the one that reinforced by Lionel Messi and that is Barcelona" Pochettino said at Marca "If Messi isn't there, then every semifinalist has the same 25 percent chance."

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