A defeat was narrowly avoided Sunday, but the restart of the Eredivisie once again failed to deliver PSV an away win. A look back at VVV-Venlo - PSV and the perspective for next week.
Clumsiness
The Eindhovens Dagblad talks about PSV's new clumsiness causing the club to slip further and it suddenly sees Feyenoord in the rearview mirror. PSV dropped from third to fourth place this weekend and know that Feyenoord are only one point behind. 'Coach Ernest Faber still has to deal with some legacies of the past at PSV. Meanwhile, the perspective is rather lousy,' the ED said.
Unnerstall: 'It's clear like this'
One bright spot in Limburg was the performance of Lars Unnerstall. The German seems to have definitely settled the goalkeeping battle, at least to the outside world, in his favor, keeping VVV-Venlo from scoring with two clever saves before halftime. "It's clear now," Unnerstall also stated to the ED. "The first half we already had 10 chances, of which we should have made at least three or four. Also the second half we should have scored, a draw is just not possible," he said.
'Not everything was bad '
Unnerstall's compatriot Daniel Schwaab was also not satisfied with the result in Venlo. Still, he does not think everything went wrong Sunday. "In terms of result it is certainly disappointing. Although we just played good football in the first one," Schwaab said after the draw. "Three points are important, especially in our situation. But we have to stay positive now, not everything was bad. We really created a lot of chances. We have to stick to that." Starting Thursday against NAC Breda. "Then we have to win," Schwaab said.
Faber sees daring in Madueke
Ernest Faber already spoke extensively about the result, but not yet about debutant Nonu Madueke. Faber took the Englishman with him at training camp, saw him excel and had him make his first official appearance in PSV 1 on Sunday. "Noni comes in and dares and can pass a number of men. He has shown himself well a number of times and he will stay with the group for the coming period," Faber said of the 17-year-old.