Kane: This Tottenham team fears no one in Europe
Harry Kane and Mauricio Pochettino have both declared that Tottenham want to play the best teams the Champions League has to offer.
Spurs go into the last 16 draw in Nyon, Switzerland today having topped their group with 16 points, the most amassed by any side in this season’s group stage.
They finished above Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund to be seeded for the draw at UEFA’s headquarters.
But there are still some potentially difficult ties for Tottenham, who collected their first Premier League win in five games with an emphatic 5-1 victory over Stoke on Saturday.
Bayern Munich, Juventus, Sevilla, Porto, Basel and Shakhtar Donetsk are the teams who can be drawn with Spurs and Kane, whose brace against Stoke takes him on to 50 goals for the calendar year, wants to beat the best.
“When we have been in the group we have been in with Real Madrid and Dortmund and we have done as well as we have, I know people say it a lot that we don’t fear anyone, but to go far in the Champions League you are going to have to play the best teams in Europe so we will see who we get,” he said.
“It will be exciting and then we will go from there and see how far we can go in the competition.
“I think the first thought was to try and get through and to finish on the most points out of everyone in the whole of the group stage was pretty impressive.”
Tottenham are joined in the draw by fellow Premier League sides Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool.