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Opta’s Supercomputer has revealed whether Tottenham are favourites to qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League and where they are likely to finish in the league phase.
Opta predicted that Spurs were favourites to win at Bodo/Glimt, but the Lilywhites had to settle for a point.
In fact, many would feel that they were even lucky to come away with a point as they were second best for large parts of the encounter in Norway.
However, several Tottenham players have said that they are proud of the way they fought back from two goals down against Bodo/Glimt to salvage a point, given that they were staring at the possibility of a defeat with less than 25 minutes left on the clock.
Are Tottenham favourites to make it to the next round of the Champions League?
Ahead of the clash on Tuesday, Opta predicted that Tottenham would finish ninth in the league phase, which means that they would have just missed out on direct passage to the round of 16 and would have made it to the play-off round.
Opta have now revised their predictions after Spurs’ draw at Bodo/Glimt, and their algorithm now predicts that the Lilywhites will finish in 11th place.
Their supercomputer gives Thomas Frank’s men a 63.96 per cent chance of making it to the playoff round and a 28.52 per cent chance of finishing in the top eight and making it directly into the round of 16.
Why Tottenham have to win their next two Champions League games
Tottenham’s last four Champions League fixtures are arguably their hardest, which means that it will be tough for them to make up a deficit in the latter part of the league phase.
The Lilywhites play Monaco away and Copenhagen at home in their next two games, and they would ideally want to win both to give themselves some breathing room.
Thomas Frank’s men will feel that finishing in the top eight is still very much within their grasp, but there are no easy games in this competition as the clash against Bodo/Glimt showed.
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