PSV won 2-1 on Saturday evening against Excelsior in Rotterdam. The Rotterdammers fought back considerably and did not make it easy for the PSV people, but thanks to a goal from Saibari, the points go to the city of lights. Thanks to an injury from Ricardo Pepi, PSV may be confronted with the umpteenth fall.
The competition started difficult for PSV. Excelsior put a lot of pressure from the kick -off, and a dangerous shot was turned at the last minute by goalkeeper Kovar. The warning was clear. Moments later it was hit for the home team: Wlodarczyk tapped the ball into PSV.
But the people of Eindhoven are fighting back. Veerman shot a free kick of about twenty meters in the intersection. Excelsior’s goalkeeper had nothing to do with it.
PSV got more grip on the Rotterdammers, regularly created opportunities and Kovar kept the balls of Excelsior in great detail from the goal.
Injury
American striker Ricardo Pepi drips off the field with visible pain in the first half. Trainer Peter Bosz took the striker off the field as a precaution. “Pepi said he could still continue. But I thought it was better to change him,” Bosz told ESPN after the game.
It seems that the 22-year-old is again injured. A serious injury for Pepi would be a big blow to PSV, which has long had to play Alassane Pléa and Myron Boadu for a long time.
Pepi was severely injured in his knee in January, in September he made his return to the base. He hoped to be of great value for his PSV team this season, but now we have to wait and see how quickly he will be overwhelmed by this fall.
Lead
After a rusty start in the second half, PSV got more grip on the game. The opportunities came and in the end it was Saibari who gave the Eindhoven to the lead. That lead seemed to be on the fire at Excelsior, but the Rotterdammers were unable to turn in the tide.
Although Excelsior put down a strong match, PSV eventually won the win. In any case, it turned out to be a more comfortable victory than that of Ajax on NAC in the seventh round of the Eredivisie.
According to Bosz, the football of the Eindhoven team did not exactly earn the beauty prize. “This has been a difficult game,” says the trainer. “As a club you will learn from that again. But we should definitely be better.”