PSV also won the ninth match in the Eredivisie. In the first top match of the season, the Eindhoven team had an easy evening against AZ. The Alkmaarders received a red card after ten minutes. PSV then quickly made it 2-0, AZ scored the 1-2 in the final minute. The Eindhoven team therefore still remains faultless in the Eredivisie.
It was actually exciting for just fifteen minutes in Alkmaar. And that had everything to do with an early red card for AZ. After ten minutes, Guus Til was pulled to the ground by David Moller Wolfe. The referee ruled that the PSV midfielder was on his way to goal, meaning the home team had to continue with ten men.
The top match that many football fans had been looking forward to had actually already been decided at that moment. Because PSV wins the matches in the Eredivisie quite easily and also managed to benefit from having one more man on the field.
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Five minutes after the red card, it was Luuk de Jong who opened the scoring. After a quarter of the match it was already 2-0 through Noa Lang. The left winger has been back in the starting lineup for a long time. After his goal, he ‘provoked’ the AZ supporters who whistled at him from the start of the match. His fellow players tried to keep him calm and especially away from the fanatical supporters. Lang was substituted at half-time. Whether that had to do with his fitness or his behavior will become clear later.
The next seventy minutes or so, both teams could have done with it in writing. PSV hardly put any energy into the match and AZ was helpless with one man less on the field. In the last minute it became 1-2 through Denso Kasius, but the home team was unable to launch a real final offensive.
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Disappointing winner
The neutral football fan will be disappointed with the spectacle in the AFAS Stadium. For the first time in the Eredivisie, PSV had an opponent from the top of the competition, but had an easy evening, partly due to the early red card.
That still doesn’t detract from the performance of the Eindhoven team. After nine games, Peter Bosz’s team is still clear in the competition. While other top teams already dropped points against the ‘little ones’. PSV will quietly continue where it left off last season.
The focus now turns to the Champions League, because an absolute European superpower awaits there on Tuesday. PSV will visit Paris Saint Germain and will have to perform very well there to bring a result to Eindhoven.
