Head coach Phillip Cocu indicated after the game that he needs to process the elimination against NK Osijek. "The real blow will come later. Going out this way should never happen, I feel a huge disappointment," he said in the catacombs.
Home game
Cocu did not look for the elimination with the attitude of his players. That was good, according to him. However, he did point to the home game a week ago. "That put us out," he thought. "Here we could bring more. At home we gave a performance that doesn't belong to us."
Cocu also dwelt on his team's efficiency. "We created opportunities without scoring. They get efficiency from a free kick and last week from a penalty kick, we don't. We have to conclude that we have a lot of trouble scoring goals," said Cocu, who will travel with PSV to Germany on Saturday for a practice match against FC Augsburg. "We will now work toward that and then toward the league start. Against AZ we can put something right, but the pressure on that match will be great."