Not for the first time this season, PSV's decay between the first and second halves was significant. Before halftime, Roger Schmidt's team dominated and went into the break with a meager 1-0 lead. In the second half, it thanked Joël Piroe for managing to get a point out of the encounter with sc Heerenveen. 'We need to be sharper,' was Denzel Dumfries' conclusion.
The captain refused to blame PSV's lack of fresh legs for the decline, which PSV also showed earlier against FC Twente, for example. "If you can start, you are fit enough for a whole match. Before halftime you also saw that we controlled. Our play was good and we should have rewarded ourselves more for that. In the second half we fell back. We shouldn't have. We weren't sharp enough. With fitness I don't think this has anything to do."