He PSV has passed over the Girona on the fourth day of the Champions League (4-0), in a match where the strength and weakness of each has been evident.
The Catalan team started well and created the first chances. In particular he had an unbeatable one that destroyed Walter Benitezwho excelled by clearing the Bojan Miovski’s close-range shot. The Macedonian was not able to take advantage of the death pass given to him by Donny van de Beek after taking a rebound from a shot from Ladislav Krejci, the first of two consecutive saves made by the PSV Argentine goalkeeper.
But From there, the danger changed sides with the man marking and the full-court pressure of the Dutch.
Spectacular and controversial throw-in
Then it was Paulo Gazzaniga who began to be stretched and after a quarter of an hour the first goal arrived in a Malik Tilman’s powerful throw-inwho put the ball almost in the small area. There Ryan Flamingo anticipated the Girona defenders and crossed it to overtake his team. By the way, the goal could have been disallowed because before releasing the ball with his hands, Tilman had already set foot on the field, a circumstance that went unnoticed at the time by almost everyone.
Protagonist of the party, the American Tilman he showed his class again to extend the advantage of the Philips club in an individual play. He started from the left wing, entered the area and after several pass threats without anyone coming out to cover himsurprised with a shot to the short post.
Míchel’s team, with many casualtieshe looked physically overwhelmed and struggled more and more to get out with the ball under control, a situation that did not change after the break.
In fact, in the first minutes of the second half, PSV had another great opportunity when Tilman set up Luke De Joong, but the veteran striker’s shot went off the post.
Many complications
The offensive of the Eindhoven team was going more and to top it off the Girona They were left with ten when Noah Lang forced Arnau’s second yellow card Martínez, who blocked the forward to prevent him from entering the area. The expulsion of the defender, who had seen the first card for protesting, left Girona with no options with more than half an hour left.
It was a matter of time before Peter Bosz’s team scored more goals. Ismael Saibari sang it, although his was canceled by a stomp on Krejci. But then two more arrived.
The third was through Tiémoué Bakayokowho incredibly ran without much opposition with the ball from the corner to the balcony of the area to make room for himself and take a great shot that hit the post. And the fourth, in Krejci’s own goal after a rebound.
With this result, PSV has five points while Girona, with only three, leaves the positions of play-off. With the Sturm Graz, Liverpool, Milan and Arsenal as rivals In the second half of this group, their future in their first participation in the Champions League becomes very complicated.
