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Andy Ha

'Cry me a river' - Chelsea fans slam Dusan Tadic after Ajax captain fumes at referee

Ajax captain Dusan Tadic has blasted the referee of "destroying" his team's hopes of victory against Chelsea.

The Dutch side drew 4-4 at Stamford Bridge in an extraordinary game which saw Chelsea nearly come back from 4-1 down to win 5-4 until VAR ruled out Cesar Azpilicueta's late goal.

Ajax were reduced to nine men in a crazy second half and speaking after the game, Tadic said: "We were much better.

"We should just talk about our game because we had 4-1 and everything was under control and then one man steals everything from us.

"Big disappointment, because we should just talk about Ajax and how we play nice football, but we cannot because one guy came and stole everything.

"We saw a situation where there's a foul on Daley Blind, then it's not second yellow for Daley Blind, then it's not second yellow for Joel Veltman, then it's not a penalty.

"I have never in my life seen triple punishment, never. But everything starts with a foul on Daley Blind, he was tackled by [Christian] Pulisic I think.

"It's a big disappointment. I don't like to make excuses, I don't like to talk about other people. We should just be talking about how Ajax played much better than Chelsea but we cannot because somebody destroyed our game."

In response to the former Southampton forward's comments, some Chelsea fans took to social media to react:

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