Feb 24, 2024 at 11:47 PM Update: 5 days ago
Peter Bosz and Jordan Teze enjoyed the way PSV defeated PEC Zwolle on Saturday evening (1-7 win). The trainer and defender of the undefeated Eredivisie leader sees the team growing to the level it was before the winter break.
“I enjoyed our game, I thought we were very good. We were steady on the ball, dared to play football. We always played under their pressure and created many chances. Unfortunately, we only scored two before half time,” Bosz said afterward. outcome at the press conference.
Partly due to those missed opportunities and a blunder by goalkeeper Walter Benítez, PSV only led 1-2 in Zwolle at halftime. After the break, the Eindhoven team put their affairs in order and the score became 1-7 thanks to a hat trick from striker Luuk de Jong.
Bosz: “I said at half-time that PEC would not be able to hold out against us, certainly not for ninety minutes. After half-time you saw that they were having a hard time and we were able to play it out.”
Defender Jordan Teze was not afraid that things would go wrong for PSV at the 1-2 score halfway through. “No, we already knew before half time that we had to win this match. We just played very well.”
PSV is numerically the best Eredivisie team
After Saturday evening, PSV is the best-performing Eredivisie team ever after 23 rounds. The Eindhoven team has 65 points, the same as AZ’67 after 23 rounds in the 1980/1981 season. But PSV has a better goal difference (+66) than the Alkmaarders (+57) at the time.
Bosz and Teze see PSV approaching top form
Bosz was happy that his team could charge for the Champions League four days after the match against Borussia Dortmund (1-1). PSV played in Zwolle in a way that was reminiscent of its performance in the first half of the season.
After the winter break, PSV also won several matches, but the game was difficult, Bosz also noticed. “The boys made a tired impression. Now you can see in training that it is fresher, like in the first half of the season,” said Bosz.
Teze also sees PSV creeping towards the level it was before the winter break. “It feels like we are back at that level. We are playing very easy football again, the intensity is a lot higher than a few games ago.”
PSV now has 104 goals in all competitions and is approaching its top form at a good time. The top match against Feyenoord is scheduled for next Sunday. Bosz’s team is thirteen points ahead of the number two, although the Rotterdam team has played one match less.
With a victory over Feyenoord, PSV can no longer miss the first national title since 2018, Teze thinks. “Then it’s as good as done, yes. Then you put your direct competitor on thirteen points, that would be ideal.”
Bosz cannot say much about Saibari’s injury
After the match at PEC, PSV coach Peter Bosz had little to say about the severity of the injury of Ismael Saibari, who was missing from the MAC³PARK stadium.
The midfielder did not emerge unscathed from the battle against Dortmund. “We will examine him next week. Whether it will be long-term? I don’t know.”
Bosz did say that he expected midfielder Guus Til back soon. Noa Lang has been out of action for a longer period due to a hamstring injury.
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