Dutch Football - Champions League - Amrabat: "Marseilles have more quality than PSV"

"The intellectualisation
of football has
always foundered
on a simple problem-
-the players. Doing
all your most
rewarding thinking
with your feet seems
to dull the philo-
sophical impulse.
Unless, of course,
you are Dutch.
According to legend,
Europeans played
a moronic, muscular
version of the world's
game, until Holland
proclaimed its vision
of total football in the
1974 World Cup,
and enlightenment
dawned."

From:
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football

Amrabat: "Marseilles have more quality than PSV"

Tuesday 21 October 2008

PSV don't see themselves as favorites for Wednesday's home game against Olympique Marseilles in the Champions League.

The Dutch champions need a win to still have a chance of wintering in Europe.

According to Nordin Amrabat and Ibrahim Afellay that will not be easy.

"This is indeed a crucial match for us. But we can not ignore the fact that Marseilles have a strong team," Amrabat told FC Update on Tuesday.

"Are we the underdogs? Well I do think Marseilles have more quality than PSV."

Team mate Ibrahim Afellay agrees: "Of course we need to win, but it will not be easy. Especially up front Marseilles have a lot of options. They have many creative players in their squad, which means they can vary a lot. But they impressed me in their first two CL games against Liverpool and Atletico. They lost both but they could have gotten a lot more from it."

PSV will be without defenders Jan Kromkamp and Mike Zonneveld and young Peruvian midfielder Reimond Manco.