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'We will do everything to beat them next week!' New Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel explains his affection for bitter foes Tottenham when growing up in Germany and says he now fully understands the rivalry

Thomas Tuchel has reassured Chelsea fans they will be doing everything to beat Tottenham next week after the German had previously admitted having a soft spot for their bitter rivals.

Back in 2016, Tuchel's Borussia Dortmund drew Spurs in the last-16 of the UEFA Europa League and at the time he spoke of his affection for the White Hart Lane club growing up in the Bavarian town of Krumbach.

'As a little kid, in my garden, when I played [football] I was always [playing] as a team from the Bundesliga but there was one game when I played as Tottenham Hotspur because I liked the name so much,' he said in 2016.