"We have to take the upper hand, especially in home fixtures. I didn't see this coming, I thought we had a terrifically good training week, with the cup game mid-way through. We could have done without starting like that. It meant Twente could smell blood, and then they got two good opportunities.”
“After that red card we did an excellent job,” the manager went on. Ten minutes before half time, Ajax was down to just ten players after Devyne Rensch was sent off. “Tactical discipline was really strong and we set up two more good opportunities. 0-0 is not really good enough, but when you look at how the match played out, we'll just have to live with it.”