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“Dortmund played on Friday, but for us that was impossible. We played on the Sunday and then played the first leg on the Wednesday. Now we have played on the Saturday when Dortmund played on the Friday.

“In Europe, the various FAs are more sensitive to helping the club to compete in the best way in Europe.”

Spurs lead 3-0 from the first leg but Pochettino is taking nothing for granted.

Despite having more teams reach the knockout stages than any other country in the past five years, English clubs have only won a third of their games in the knockout stages.

Italy, France and Germany, who reschedule games to support their teams, have all reached the 50-50 mark, while Spain dominate by winning 77 per cent of their head-to-heads.

Pochettino added: “I don’t know whether to blame the Premier League, or to blame Tottenham, because we changed the day because we still have not delivered our new stadium.

“Or whether to blame the TV because they wanted us to play live on Saturday.

“Maybe we need to blame ourselves because we struggled to deal with this type of thing. But of course that is not fair for the players, for the team to compete with a massive disadvantage.”