With the victory in De Kuip, PSV has already taken a ten-point lead over Feyenoord. Willy and René van de Kerkhof are very proud of their club’s performance, but has the competition now been decided? In any case, René doesn’t think so, he says in the Willy and René Podcast of Omroep Brabant. “If we also win against Heerenveen, AZ and Excelsior, then we can start thinking about the flat cart.”
Willy thinks that PSV will no longer lose the title, after the triple win against Twente, Sevilla and Feyenoord. “We can probably look for winter tires for the flat car. But I don’t think the players are very concerned with becoming champions yet. I think they are now more concerned with the record we set in the 1987-1988 season. of seventeen games without losing points.”
Willy’s record is in danger of being forgotten, but that doesn’t bother him. “I think they can win all 34 games. I think they will end up in their twenties.”
Anti-PSV
René is less enthusiastic about the arbitration. “That strange action by Hartman against Teze… That was at least yellow but actually red,” he grumbles. “The entire first half, referee Makkelie was anti-PSV. He kept blowing the whistle for violations by PSV, but turned a blind eye to a lot of Feyenoord. Fortunately, he improved a bit in the second half.” René refers to the fact that Makkelie comes from the Rotterdam region. “I find it incomprehensible that the KNVB sends him to such a match.”
Some PSV players are also criticized. “Benitez apparently wanted it to be exciting for a while,” says Willy. “On that goal, he went to the ball with one hand instead of two. And despite the assist on the first goal, I didn’t think Bakayoko played well either.”
René agrees. “Just before that goal he wants to pass one man too many and he does not see his fellow players.” But according to Willy, PSV has had more right wingers who focused too much on their own success. “And one of them is now right next to me haha”
‘Facing the facts’
Even though the championship is still far away, PSV already has the luck of the champion. “Otherwise, Wieffer’s ball will still go in during injury time. Feyenoord was lucky last year and we are now,” says Willy. According to René, Feyenoord has fallen from the pink cloud. “They were able to live like gods in France for a while, but the loss to Atletico and PSV forced them to face the facts,” he says with a typically Kerkhovian corruption of the expression.
In the podcast, the Van de Kerkhof brothers reflect extensively on the match against Feyenoord and the special role of Jerdy Schouten and Ismael Saibari. Willy also tells how he experienced the victory as a PSV player between the Feyenoorders and the upcoming PSV matches are discussed.