First half.

It was a little looking forward to today's game. The loss last week in the friendly with Spijkenisse (1-2), the championship title being in, and really no more goals outside of bringing attractive football to the fans and trying to finish the season without a single losing game. Would all noses still be pointed in the same direction? Or was the pot of everyone just doing something... The coach is also experimenting here and there with the boys, putting them in places that are, for them, "strange". It's a bit of searching but everyone is doing a decent job.

VV Baronie, sixth in the standings was the opposing team. With Raphael Narty in the ranks who is eager for honor after one year of PSV. The game will be played on ground A. Normally the best ground the club can present, but the winter had been harsh and cold and Mother Nature left her mark here as well. From a distance it looks pretty good, but when the ball rolls it sometimes makes strange antics.

Starting we do with the bright sun at our backs, and at the first cross from Amar, Cody comes flying in just a little too late. Jordan's shot on a dropped ball was blocked. Chances, but nothing to get hot for Baronie. The next chance does get hot, Cody, who meets a leg, back or goalkeeper in his way three times.
On a subsequent corner kick, heat is felt again, heat even, as Jordan rams a corner kick in at one time . Jordan's boot still steams after. Handsome goal and 0-1 for PSV. Baronie's counterpunch follows two minutes later when a backpass ball gets to Arne who can't clear for the onrushing Raphael. The carom ball goes in and it is 1-1. Chances now follow from both teams. Huseyin with a clever action and ditto pass to Cody, past the keeper but not into goal. A lob over the home goalkeeper, but the ball is still swept off the line. Huseyin now sprinkles in some good passes, he sends Amar deep but again he fails to finish. It is a game of just not. And then you know it can go either way.
A Baronie shot goes wide, and in a PSV attack Baggio takes his chance and scores nicely, but apparently the referee has blown the whistle. Indeed 30 minutes (exactly) have been played, but you have to sense this as a referee. You don't do something like that, too bad, because until then the referee whistled flawlessly.
So the halftime score is 1-1.
The second half comes from colleague reporter Hans Bosma because of the busy schedule of both journalists.

A busy schedule for the journalists... Well, spending a sunny weekend on the South Holland island of Goeree Overflakkee might not really be one of them, but a reporter's battery has to be recharged in due course of course. Back to yesterday afternoon around noon in Breda at the Barons.

The score at halftime was 1-1, and an exciting 2nd half was just around the corner. We sat down on the concrete stands in the full sun. As usual, our boys calmly passed the ball around in the back as if there were no little Barons. This always goes pretty well, but on the now not-so-tight turf, it does give more risk as experienced in the first half. A crazy bounce and Pep also had a tricky ball to deal with but fortunately still managed to get the ball out of his 16.

The well-deserved 2nd goal fell quickly. A nice attack via a 1-1 between Cody and Robin to Amar. A tangle situation arises and then there is goldcrest Roland who scores an important goal. The game is then for our D2, Baronie has to go back and is struggling.

After a nice pass from Robin, Hus shoots on the hand of a little Baron and the referee whistles for a penalty kick. A large number of PSV players are pushing for the staff kick but the honor goes to the enabler Hus himself. Unfortunately ... too nice (a bit a la Ruiz today) and the goalkeeper can catch. So no decisive lead.

As Joel said, it was the day of the net-not. And then, of course, things can go crazy. Baronie continued to fight for every meter and keep good pressure in front, and they got chances. A good Baronie attack on the right only just ended well for us. The game goes back and forth and it is exciting as it has been very rarely this league.

At the other end it is Amar who passes a ball beautifully to Cody but he does not manage to take advantage of the header opportunity. For Barony there is a free kick on the edge of 16 but fortunately for us: wide. Cody continues to struggle but his effort after a good individual action goes just past the goal. Baronie with a splitting pass to the right but just on Steven manages to block the ball with an excellent slide. So it remains exciting until the end.

A few minutes before time the game goes into the lock. Cody rewarded himself with a good solo from a throw in where he was not selfish and gave the chance to Amar who made it 1-3.

In the end it was a deserved victory that required a lot of hard work, and the boys did just that against a hard-working Baronie.