Dutch Football - Eredivisie - PSV still fail to impress

"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

PSV still fail to impress

Wednesday 29 October 2008

After two defeats in a row PSV have finally won a game again.

In Den Haag the reigning champions were too strong for ADO.

Defender Eric Addo opened the score in the second half after which Otman Bakkal decided the game in the last minute.

The score might implicate that this is the turn around for PSV, but the performance of the team of Huub Stevens showed no such thing.

It did make a difference that Ibrahim Afellay was there again.

The creative midfielder failed in the lost match against Roda on Saturday.

But the return of Afellay was not the only change Stevens had made.

Mexican defenders Carlos Salcido and Francisco Rodriguez were benched after their disappointing displays of recent weeks, and that meant Addo's first start of the season.

Up front Danko Lazovic played in stead of Danny Koevermans.

With the injuries of Stijn Wuytens, Brechet and Amrabat PSV were changed in six positions.

But in the new lineup PSV again failed to impress.

The team didn't look together and didn't seem to a have a lot of confidence, PSV lack a scoring ability and the defense hasn't been this shaky in years.

In the first half PSV didn't create a single decent chance, but after the break they took more initiative.

Perhaps it was exemplary that it was defender Addo who gave his team the lead.

ADO had some great chances after the opening goal to equalize, but PSV were spared a new disappointment.

Great relief could be seen on the faces of the PSV players as they left the pitch, but according to Huub Stevens that was only natural.

"Yes it is, after you have lost two games in a row. And when you look at all the chances PSV deserved to win."

ADO-coach André Wetzel thought his team should have made the difference in the first half.

"We played boldly and we played well. Had we scored before the break I am not so sure whether PSV would have been able to turn things around. I am disappointed with the result but very proud of our performance."

ADO Den Haag-PSV 0-2
0-1 56' Addo
0-2 90' Bakkal

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