DID YOU KNOW?
* Tottenham have a 100 per cent record at home in this year’s competition and have scored at least three at White Hart Lane in every fixture.
* The hosts have the third best possession percentage in the competition, averaging 57% - this is only bettered by Bayern Munich and Barcelona.
* Aaron Lennon has the joint highest number of assists in this season’s Champions League, setting up five goals for the White Hart Lane outfit.
* As well as scoring a hat-trick against Young Boys in the play-off round, Peter Crouch is the seventh highest scorer in this season's Champions League proper, having netted four goals in seven games.
* Spurs are the second highest scorers in the competition with 19 goals and a scoring average of 2.71 per game, only one behind Arsenal.
* In contrast, Milan are the joint lowest scorers, alongside Manchester United, to remain in the competition with seven goals and a scoring average of only a goal a game.
* Zlatan Ibrahimovic has committed 19 fouls in the Champions League so far this season, more than any other player remaining in the competion. The Swede has also been caught offside more than any other player so far in the competition, seeing the flag raised 14 times in eight games.
* The visitors have received more bookings than any other team, having picked up 20, an average of 2.86 a game.
* Milan have failed to win in their last six matches against English opposition.
* Having beaten Juventus in Turin on Saturday, Milan have now picked up 31 points in 14 away matches in Serie A this season – the most in the league.
LAST MEETING
February 15, 2011: Milan 0-1 Tottenham
An 80th minute strike from Peter Crouch gave Spurs an away goal and put his side firmly in the driving seat in a feisty affair at the San Siro.
PROBABLE LINE-UPS
Tottenham: Gomes; Hutton, Dawson, Gallas, Assou-Ekotto; Lennon, Palacios, Modric, Bale; Van der Vaart; Crouch.
Milan: Abbiati; Abate, Nesta, Thiago Silva, Jankulovski; Merkel, Flamini, Seedorf; Robinho; Pato, Ibrahimovic
Prediction
To underestimate a team that is five points clear at the top of Serie A would certainly be foolhardy on the part of Spurs, who have shown stuttering form of late. The qualities of both sides are as evident as they are contrasting and I feel, beneath the floodlights of White Hart Lane, Tottenham's highly charged, physical approach should just about be enough to see them through into the last eight of the competition.
Tottenham 1-1 AC Milan 
