After Feyenoord, PSV also set aside an Italian superpower for a place at the best sixteen club teams in Europe. Turning off AC Milan and Juventus is of an unprecedented luxury for Dutch football. In January these top clubs reinforced themselves with the top strikers Santiago Gimenez and Randal Kolo Muani. While Feyenoord and PSV failed to get replacers for Gimenez and the injured Supersub Ricardo Pepi respectively. But it did not bother the Dutch representatives in the Champions League in the interim round.

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