"We were 2-0 up at half-time. A team like PSV should not get in trouble after that. I expected we would neutralize the game. We didn't manage and it shows a lack of maturity."

That is why Rutten thinks an important aspect is lacking from his team's game.

"I did not have that feeling at all when we played Cherno More in the European qualification. Particularly during a difficult phase we stuck to discipline. On Sunday we couldn't do that. Some sort of insecurity came over our game and that shouldn't happen to a team like PSV."

Rutten couldn't come up with an explanation.

"But that doesn't mean we shouldn't learn how to control a game. The team has to grow. I really thought we had made more progress already. Sadly that isn't the case and after the first game of the season that is an awkward conclusion."

Rutten saw some positive things as well though.

"This team can play football very well. But there are other things that are important as well. Our gamelacks a certain toughness. The way we conceded the goals, that's not possible."

VVV-coach Jan van Dijk was delighted with his team's display against PSV: "There was a lot of quality to our game and we dared to go on the offensive. Normally when you are 2-0 down in Eindhoven you think the game is over, you control the damage. But I had a gut feeling that something was still possible. That turned out to be true. I think my team did great."

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"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