The team with Messi are favourite
The team with Messi are favourites for the Champions League – Pochettino Spurs face Ajax in the semi-final of Europea's premier club competition for the right to face Liverpool or Barcelona in the final in Madrid Mauricio Pochettino says that whichever team includes Lionel Messi will be the favourite to win this season’s Champions League . Tottenham form part of a surprise last-four line-up in this year’s competition, and will face Ajax for the right to play Liverpool or Messi’s Barcelona in the final in Madrid. Spurs are the only one of the four never to have won the competition or played in the final, and reached this stage after a stunning away-goals victory over Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City in the quarter-final.