With the heavily fought victory, PSV recovered from the painful home defeat against Telstar and Peter Bosz tasted for the first time the pleasure of a three -point in Nijmegen as PSV trainer. Two seasons ago, PSV suffered the only Eredivisie defeat of the almost perfect season in the Goffert and earlier this year PSV handed over a 3-1 lead in the final phase in the final phase. The 3-3 draw was one of the first signs of the big relapse, which PSV would cost the lead, but in the end not the title.
So NEC was already a fear and then the Nijmegen Eendracht combination among the new trainer Dick Schreuder also started the season very well with the same point total after four duels as PSV. He said the very attacking Dickie-Takka football from NEC Bosz to the imagination, because Schreuder and Bosz share the preference for very attacking football.
Bosz surprised with setup
The Nijmegen audience once went well after the Goffert was warmed up for the football party with a flag parade and carnival music. The first phase was for NEC, but PSV soon got some good chances, because inherent to Schreuder’s attacking football is that opportunities are also given away.
Bosz surprised with his setup in Nijmegen. The PSV trainer had taken on his defense center and opted for Jerdy Schouten and Armando Obispo in the center, so that Ryan Flamingo and Yarek Gasiorowski both started on the couch. Both were first choice at the start of the season, but had to watch in Nijmegen, although Flamingo quickly came into the field. Obispo is susceptible to injury and a big bad luck and this time too had to be changed again now because of a main injury due to a collision with Dirk Proper.
Three crazy minutes
At that time it was 0-1 due to a handsome striker goal from Ricardo Pepi, who was found fit enough to start in the base. The American international had some start -up problems this season after the rehabilitation of last season’s serious knee injury, but showed its old -fashioned sharpness in the completion in Nijmegen.
There were opportunities back and forth, but it was PSV that came to 0-2 after a fast counter, in which Ruben van Bommel got free passage, when his jailer Brayann Pereira slipped away. The Limburger played cool NEC goalkeeper Gonzalo Crettaz: 0-2. Normally you would think about an early 0-2 lead that PSV was already on a victory race, but it caused the reigning champion too many problems to think and the Virgil Misidjan’s connection on full gas.
Beautiful goal Veerman
Even before half-time, PSV increased the lead to 1-3 by a magnificent goal from Joey Veerman, who placed the ball with a carpenter’s eye in the upper corner, thereby optimally benefiting from the seas of space that NEC gave away.
But also the new margin of two goals gave PSV no certainty and peace, there was too little control over the game and the game waved far too much up and down. NEC came from the dressing room very strongly, got a huge chance of the connection goal via Tjaronn Chery, but PSV goalkeeper Matej Kovar saved cleverly. And immediately afterwards the 1-4 was in it. Pepi headed the ball from a nice pass from Ivan Perisic into the goal.
Even more goals and a missed penalty kick
With a margin of three goals, PSV thought he could do a step less, but that was not included in NEC, which with an emergency corridor put attack wave on the mat after attack wave and brought back the difference to one goal by Goals by Youssef El Kachati and Tjaronn Chery: 3-4.
Just when everyone in Nijmegen sat down for the crowning of the very strong second half, PSV showed its teeth on the other side. A shot by Jerdy Schouten was processed by Crettaz into a corner, after which from that corner of Veerman the newly picked up Myron Boadu headed the 3-5 in it. A nice entry for the debutant. In the future, PSV came under heavy pressure and chery NEC failed to bring one goal again by shooting a penalty kick.
The scouts of the Belgian champion Royale Union Saint-Gilloise will have gone dizzy from the many goals and opportunities in the car back to Brussels and have seen that PSV has a lot of footballing capacity, but defensively made a very vulnerable impression and never managed to get control of the game. Science that the Belgians will process in the battle plan for next Tuesday.