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Real Madrid's Luka Modric backing Tottenham to win Premier League

Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric believes his former club Tottenham can win the Premier League under Mauricio Pochettino.

The two sides drew 1-1 in the Champions League at the Santiago Bernabeu last week, with the result leaving them level on seven points at the top of Group H.

Tottenham, meanwhile, sit third in the Premier League, and Modric, who played at White Hart Lane between 2008 and 2012, is backing Pochettino's side to eventually win a first English title since 1961.

Asked by talkSPORT if Spurs could become champions of England under Pochettino, Modric said: "I think so.