“I didn’t enjoy the first half, but I thought we played decently. We score three times, but I emphatically say ‘decent’. I didn’t think it was good, because they can also make it 3-1. After rest it was much less. Then it becomes almost 3-2. I didn’t want to think about that, because then you know it’s going to be difficult. If you are so dominant and you have the ball so much, you have to be even more in control of the ball and switch sides more. Then you have to have a quiet second half, play that out and make the fourth, fifth and sixth. But that didn’t happen. It was restless and messy.”
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Bosz partly blamed the setback on the changes he made. “After half time we lost a lot of ball and we couldn’t put any pressure on the opponent. The substitutions didn’t help either. That made us restless. We have been playing with Ismael Saibari and Guus Til for a month now. Then it is logical that it will take effort if you change that. Then you notice the importance of automatisms. They were gone in the second half. I wanted to let the boys rest in view of Tuesday, when we go to Olympiacos. But that did make things restless.”
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The latter was precisely the reason why Bosz started with the Til-Saibari duo again and not with Ricardo Pepi as the striker. “I think we have been playing well in this composition in recent weeks. It’s true. It looks good. You see in the second half, when things are no longer right, how far we can sink,” said the PSV coach, who substituted Anass Salah-Eddine at half-time. “He had to throw up. That’s why I substituted him. He wasn’t feeling well, but I don’t expect any problem for next Tuesday’s match against Olympiakos Piraeus.”