‘I have no muscles!’ – Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel jokes he would easily lose to Antonio Conte in a fight

Thomas Tuchel has joked that he wouldn’t stand a chance in a fight against Antonio Conte following the two managers’ bust-up last weekend.

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The Chelsea and Tottenham bosses clashed twice during last Sunday’s game at Stamford Bridge, with the home side feeling aggrieved after Spurs came from behind twice to controversially earn a 2-2 draw against the Blues.

As the full-time whistle went, the managers shook hands, but Tuchel held onto Conte, annoyed that his opposite number had apparently refused to look him in the eye.

The resulting clash between each team’s coaching staff and players led to both managers receiving red cards and fines, but both downplayed the severity of the incident in the subsequent post-match interviews, putting the clash down to the heat of the moment and the intensity of the London derby.

Tuchel has since doubled down on this reasoning in an interview with Sky Sports ahead of Chelsea’s game at Leeds on Sunday.

‘It was about passion and I’m very passionate on the side-lines and the game sucked both of us in,’ the German said.

‘It was a little outburst of passion from Antonio and me and okay now we have to live with people laughing at us and making fun of us which is fair enough.

‘It was entertainment, nobody got hurt, we didn’t insult each other, and I think that it was just passion and it fitted to the game and to the derby.

‘[However] we don’t need this every week and I can live happily without any red cards from now on, but it fitted somehow.’

As Tuchel alluded to, much humour has been made out of the incident by fans, with bookmakers even speculating on which manager would win in a fight, with the Blues boss the surprise favourite.

‘They had me as the favourite? I’m