German legend Lothar Matthaus believes Borussia Dortmund will be too strong for their Champions League round 16 tie with Tottenham.

Matthaus wrote for The Sun: "Spurs and Borussia Dortmund met in the group stage last year, when Tottenham were far better.

"But Dortmund now have the leaders they didn't have then, a better goalkeeper, stability, and in Lucien Favre a coach who knows what he wants to do and has built on what he did with Moenchengladbach and others.

"I've real respect for Mauricio Pochettino and Spurs. He doesn't need to pay £50million, £60m, £70m for a player — he takes players and builds them and that is an incredible job.

"They have so many top players, many of them English too.

"Spurs have improved mentally from last season, when they were better than Juventus but lost because they had two or three bad minutes over the whole tie.

"I think that Dortmund will get through, just, but only because I am German."