De Jong: VAR supports enormous clubs

The home side saw a first-half objective denied for offside in a dubious minute, yet the midfielder demands they are still in the tie

Ajax midfielder Frenkie de Jong trusts Video Assisted Referee decisions can "without much of a stretch fall for the enormous club", as his side discovered in Wednesday's 2-1 defeat to Real Madrid.

In the wake of leaving behind a couple of first-half odds of the primary leg of the Champions League last-16 tie, left-back Nicolas Tagliafico seemed to give Ajax the lead when he headed past Thibaut Courtois towards the finish of the principal half. The house side's festivals were stopped when ref Damir Skomina ceased to audit the recording and decided that Dusan Tadic had meddled with play from an offside position as he hopped towards the Madrid goalkeeper.

Karim Benzema terminated in the amusement's genuine opening objective on the hour mark subsequent to being teed up by Vinicius Junior. The Amsterdam side pulled dimension 15 minutes after the fact through Hakim Ziyech, just for Marco Asensio to guarantee Santiago Solari's men bring the favorable position into the second leg in Madrid.

De Jong trusts Ajax sufficiently demonstrated to propose they can discover a path once again into the amusement when they visit the Santiago Bernabeu, yet it was a "feel sorry for" to see the objective removed.

"In Spain, we should play similarly as we did here at home", he told NOS. "With brave and conviction. Nothing has been decided yet. Genuine will likewise feel more weight before its own gathering of people.

"As a group we progressed nicely. It's a disgrace that our objective was prohibited. Possibly something to that effect falls effectively for the huge club, we've likewise had that. However, we proceeded with well and furthermore got our opportunities a short time later. Pity that it didn't yield a superior outcome."

De Jong, who will join Barcelona in the late spring, got his first experience of a match against his future residential adversaries and one player specifically inspired him.

"It was surely pleasant to play against Luka Modric," he disclosed to Ziggo Sport. "That propels additional obviously. He is a characteristic ability and it is extremely hard to put him under weight."

Madrid have Ajax for the arrival leg of the second round tie on March 5.