Danny Rose has certainly not spared Ajax in his retrospect of the dramatic denouement of Ajax-Tottenham Hotspur. The left back, who has now been rented out to Newcastle United, calls the team from Amsterdam ‘arrogant’ and states that the insane denouement of the return duel was not entirely unexpected.
Ajax had won the first game in London with 0-1 and was allowed to finish the job in-house. The attitude of trainer Erik ten Hag and some players annoyed Rose. “I thought they looked very arrogant, certainly the manager. He spoke before the return as if it had already been decided “, the 29-time English international tells The Athletic.
Ajax went into half time with a 2-0 lead and then again put bad blood at Rose. “After the break we came out of the dressing room when the referee (Felix Brych, ed.) Called us. But Ajax made us wait two, three minutes. Pure arrogance. There is nothing wrong with that, as long as you live up to it If you don’t, it’s going to work against you and just make fun of yourself. “
After the first game, Rose already knew that Ajax would become vulnerable as the match progressed. “They started incredibly strong then and we were very, very bad. But after an hour of play they subsided. Of course we did not expect that we would be 2-0 behind at that time, but we knew that in the return too was going to happen again. And indeed they collapsed, when we just started to get into our rhythm. Football technically, Ajax is one of the best teams I have ever played against. But we were superior physically. “
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