PSV defeated Italian Napoli 6-2 in the Philips Stadium on Tuesday evening and experienced a magical evening. It is the first Dutch club ever to score six goals in a Champions League match. The newspapers at home and abroad are full of praise for the performance of the people of Eindhoven.
De Telegraaf: ‘Gala performance in Eindhoven!’
According to The Telegraph the PSV players gave the Italians football lessons. “It was doom and gloom at the start of the European group stages with one defeat after another of a Dutch club, but PSV has given national football a healthy color in Europe again with a super performance,” the piece in the newspaper begins. “The Dutch champion gave the Italian champion Napoli an unprecedented beating on a wonderful European evening in the Philips Stadium: 6-2.”
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AD: ‘Sensation in Eindhoven: great PSV humiliates Italian champion Napoli’
Also words of praise for PSV in the AD: “PSV achieved its first Champions League victory of the season with a strong performance,” the newspaper writes. “Peter Bosz’s team scored wildly against Italian champions Napoli. The football party ended 6-2, making the tournament completely open for PSV again.”
Eindhovens Dagblad: ‘PSV turns Philips Stadium upside down’
On the front page of the Eindhovens Dagblad on Wednesday morning, this headline contains a fitting photo of a somersaulting Ivan Perišic, who did not score but was once again very important for the team. According to the regional newspaper ‘the aspirations in the Champions League are alive again’.
De Volkskrant: ‘PSV impresses and records sensational victory over Napoli’
De Volkskrant saw that the champion of the Netherlands made up the reigning champion of Italy ‘in a way that few would have thought possible’. “PSV played football the way Bosz likes to see it: players were always on the move and the free man was found with beautiful positional play,” the newspaper writes.
Abroad
Where the Dutch newspapers are euphoric, the Italian ones are La Gazzetta dello Sport very critical. Not at PSV, of course, but at coach Antonio Conte’s team. In the match report, the newspaper speaks of an ‘unmitigated disaster’: “They call Eindhoven ‘the city of lights’, Philips and the lamps are everywhere, but it was pitch black for Napoli.”
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The French L’Equipe headlines: ‘Naples sinks on the PSV Eindhoven field’: “McTominay’s second goal did not change the match and was largely canceled out by two Dutch goals late in the match,” the newspaper writes. “It was the final blow for Napoli, which was humiliated by PSV Eindhoven.”
The Latest News in Belgium saw fellow countryman and Napoli player Kevin de Bruyne ‘go down with him’. “Historic. Dramatic. Because of the absolute minimum. See Eindhoven and die. A poor Kevin de Bruyne was punished by PSV with a weak Napoli: 6-2!”
