With a spot-kick Steven Bergwijn turned PSV - De Graafschap Sunday afternoon. For a long time, Mark van Bommel's team failed to score, but after Bergwijn's 1-1, the game tilted in PSV's favor. 'I was pretty confident.'
Right corner
Bergwijn chose the right corner in the 65th minute after Hirving Lozano - twice goalbound from 11 yards last week - was floored in the sixteen. "I knew which corner I was going to choose and felt good," said the striker, who saw that PSV struggled throughout the match. "It wasn't best, before halftime at all. In the second half we played a lot better at times. In the end we were also able to create enough chances. A lot of them just didn't go in. We just have that creativity."
'Experienced more often'
"A match like today, I've experienced that many times in my career. The most important thing is that you just win then." With those words, captain Luuk de Jong echoed Bergwijn's words. "We wanted to score a quick goal, but were not quite in control. It just didn't go our way and then winning is the first thing that matters. That's what we did."
Nevertheless, according to De Jong, the score could have been a lot higher. "If you make two, three or four more, and you could have, everyone talks very differently. Of course, you'd prefer to win easily and score as many goals as possible. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't."
Van Bommel happy with win
Mark van Bommel felt above all that PSV should be happy that it got three points from the game despite a number of misses. "We had suggested something different," he began afterwards. "It was a difficult, difficult game. One in which we didn't get into our game. You do get a lot of chances (21 shots on goal in total, ed.) but you have to be happy afterwards that you win. Sometimes it just doesn't work out," said the coach, who was asked at the press conference about reflections before the match.
Indeed, on Friday, during the press moment, goal difference was the big topic. After a journalist asked about it, Van Bommel drew a comparison with a game he played in his career against San Marino. Van Bommel: "We never talked about goal difference. That was done by the media. I was asked if we could put up a big result. That is possible, I said, and as an example I mentioned the game against San Marino. With that I immediately said that De Graafschap is not San Marino."