Compassion was hard to come by from Ajax Amsterdam administrator Erik ten hag for damage hit Tottenham Hotspur in front of their champions League semi-last first leg conflict on Tuesday.
Hosts Tottenham are without a string of key players, including strikers Harry Kane and Son Heung-min, for the diversion in north London and were additionally associated with a derby against West Ham United on Saturday while Ajax rested.
Tottenham supervisor Mauricio Pochettino has said Ajax have an out of line advantage in light of the fact that the entire of the Dutch league program was delayed to enable Ten hag's to side get ready.
The straight-talking Dutchman was disinterested, be that as it may, playing down proposals his side were top picks.
'We get €10 million for playing in the Eredivisie and they get a lot increasingly millions for being in the Premier League. Is that not uncalled for on us?' the 49-year-old coach told correspondents.
'There are continually contrasting conditions. Everyone has diverse conditions. You simply need to manage them. That is our main thing.'
Midfielder Donny van der Beek, one of a harvest of homegrown youths who have pushed four-times victors Ajax to their first Champions League semi-last since 1997, additionally pointed out that their adventure started the previous summer.
Ajax were really playing in a second passing round tie against Austrians Sturm Graz in July, at that point beat Standard Master to achieve the playoffs where they defeated Dynamo Kiev.
That place them in a gathering containing Bayern Munich, however they rose undefeated before beating Real Madrid in the last 16 and Juventus in the quarter-finals.
Presently they are in sight of the last just as being neck-and - neck with PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch title race.
'It's everything going very quick,' Van der Beek stated, before an instructional meeting in Tottenham's new arena which was open for the general population to go to for the full length.
'Spurs are an extraordinary group with incredible players and we should be at a similar dimension or superior to anything we were against Real and Juventus in the last two rounds.'
Ajax may never have a superior opportunity to recover the trophy before the purported European heavyweights close in to pick off their best ability - as has occurred on account of midfielder Frenkie de Jong who will join Barcelona this mid year.
Be that as it may, while it is youthful Dutch ability that has initiated Ajax's walk, Ten hag said it was several previous Premier League players who have given the triumphant mindset.
Serbian Dusan Tadic joined from Southampton while Daley Dazzle has flourished since coming back to the Netherlands after a spell with Manchester United.
'We had a decent youthful group however an absence of experience,' Ten hag said. 'It was an intentional strategy to sign players from the Premier League, with the learning and experience they bring.'
Ajax are searching for their first win over Tottenham, having lost the two legs of their European Cup Victors' Cup tie in 1981.
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