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DELE ALLI has mocked Arsenal by claiming that Tottenham see Chelsea as their biggest rivals thanks to their Premier League clashes in recent seasons.
The 24-year-old Spurs star has revealed that his teammates see the Blues as bigger rivals than the Gunners, but he knows it’s different for fans.
Alli acknowledges bad-tempered clashes with Chelsea over the years, including the 2016 Battle of Stamford Bridge, considered one of the most embarrassing games in Premier League history, meaning that Tottenham sees them as its biggest rivals now.
On that fateful May day, Chelsea ended the Spurs’ title ambitions when Alli and Co scrapped a 2-0 lead to tie it 2-2 and hand Leicester their first Premier League crown.
Tottenham had a record NINE The players booked, with 12 seeing yellow in total, with Moussa Dembele tearing Diego Costa’s eye, Erik Lamela stomping on Cesc Fabregas and Guus Hiddink being crushed in a massive fight at the touchline, to name just a few incidents.
And games like that have made Chelsea the Spurs’ biggest rivals, according to Alli.
The English midfielder told Copa90: “I think if you ask the fans, they will give you a different answer.”
“But as players, as things have been with the league and the games, the rivalry with Chelsea is greater than that of Arsenal, for what they have done to us in recent years.”
“For fans it is different, because the North London derby is huge, but as players I think it is Chelsea.”
The Blues have won the last four games in all competitions against Tottenham, most recently in a 2-1 victory in late February.
But Spurs had won all three games before that, as the two London giants fight for supremacy.
Meanwhile, those two clubs have been battling players like Liverpool and Manchester City for the glory of the Premier League, while Arsenal have simply been trying to get back into the top six.
The Gunners are currently ninth in the Premier League, to a staggering 42 points adrift of the Red leaders in the league.
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