For the first match after the winter break, PSV D2, together with the D1, left for Roosendaal for the away match against RBC D2. With a comfortable lead (of 7 loss points) over pursuers Willem II/RKC and FC Den Bosch, Twan Scheepers' men started the second part of the competition. Given the outward game, no easy match was expected.

Already shortly after the first whistle there are shooting chances for Ertem Bölükbas and Giovanni Nicolaas, but eventually the ball rolls wide of the goal. The next opportunity came in the tenth minute when Ertem sent Daan Winter deep on the right and Mats Grotenbreg was just a foot short of his cross. This opportunity heralded a number of good opportunities for PSV. An attack on the left via Mats and Zohair Labyad ends at the head of Matthias Verreth, who heads wide. A minute later, it goes over the left again: Gio sends Mats deep, Mats to Zohair, cross and Daan who shoots hard wide. In the same minute it is Koen Vos who plays Matthias in, but his shot from the turn is caught by the goalkeeper. After fifteen minutes of play it is finally close. Ertem sent Daan on the right towards the back line and his cross was easily headed in by the well-run Mats: 0-1. Shortly after the opening goal we see the first opportunity for RBC when the ball is saved off the line after a free kick from the side. PSV's answer follows immediately. Mats sends Matthias deep who gets a push just as he wants to take a shot and sees his effort stopped by the goalkeeper. Because he remains standing nicely no penalty follows. In the twentieth minute Matthias almost scores again when he kicks in a Gio corner, but an RBC defender saves on the line. Two minutes later it is Ieke Scheerhoorn who has to save a RBC corner at the other end. The corners are dangerous today, because after another RBC corner is cleared off the line, at the break it is Matthias who scores three times from a Gio corner. So it is 0-2 at halftime after a first half in which there was decent football, good combination from time to time, but in which we also see a short messy phase. Actually, PSV does itself short by scoring only twice and not deciding the match definitively yet.

The short messy phase in the first half will become characteristic for the second half. It starts well when a rush by Roel van Linschoten ends with an offside goal by Matthias. After that, the PSV side becomes increasingly restless. Not surprisingly, RBC scored the tying goal after a shot in front of the goal. After this 1-2, PSV could go ahead again when Gio crossed to Joey Konings and his cross was shot over by Matthias. The next chance is also for PSV. Daan crossed the ball to Matthias, who headed over. Instead of PSV running away from RBC, it becomes 2-2 midway through the second half. The signal for PSV to push on. After Joey hit the RBC goalkeeper and Ties van den Eijnde headed wide from an Ertem corner, five minutes after the equalizer Mats was put in front of the goalkeeper by Zohair and coolly finished: 2-3. Not much later it is Matthias who shoots in the 2-4 after a nice action with his left. The game seems to be over. At least, that is what the PSV players seem to think, but the RBC players think otherwise. In the last ten minutes they came dangerously close to scoring one or more goals. Twan Demin cleared a ball off the line, Koen and Ties made an ultimate intervention and RBC shot wide. However, it remains 2-4 and the 3 points go to Eindhoven with good reason.