Spurs, who start their campaign at home to Lazio on Thursday evening, only missed out on a Champions League place because Chelsea won Europe's premier club competition last season.

"This is a very important competition for us," Dembele told reporters. "There are some good teams in this competition but I think we can do something in it."

Tottenham are joined in Group J by Panathinaikos and NK Maribor.

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Premier League Table

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Liverpool	6	5	0	1	12	2	10	15
2	Manchester City Man City	6	4	2	0	14	6	8	14
3	Arsenal	6	4	2	0	12	5	7	14
4	Chelsea	6	4	1	1	15	7	8	13
5	Aston Villa	6	4	1	1	12	9	3	13
6	Fulham	6	3	2	1	8	5	3	11
7	Newcastle United Newcastle	6	3	2	1	8	7	1	11
8	Tottenham Hotspur Spurs	6	3	1	2	12	5	7	10
9	Brighton & Hove Albion Brighton	6	2	3	1	10	8	2	9
10	Nottingham Forest Nott'm Forest	6	2	3	1	6	5	1	9
11	Brentford	6	2	1	3	8	10	-2	7
12	Manchester United Man Utd	6	2	1	3	5	8	-3	7
13	Bournemouth	5	1	2	2	5	8	-3	5
14	West Ham United West Ham	6	1	2	3	6	10	-4	5
15	Ipswich Town Ipswich	6	0	4	2	5	10	-5	4
16	Everton	6	1	1	4	7	15	-8	4
17	Leicester City Leicester	6	0	3	3	8	12	-4	3
18	Crystal Palace	6	0	3	3	5	9	-4	3
19	Southampton	5	0	1	4	2	9	-7	1
20	Wolverhampton Wanderers Wolves	6	0	1	5	6	16	-10	1